Welcome!  

Here you can view my books and illustrations and learn more about me. Click "visits" to learn about my presentations. Feel free to "contact me" if you would like more information. Thanks for stopping by!
 

See me on TV

Earlier this year, I was interviewed on Fairfax Network's "Meet the Author" Program. You can see short excerpts from the program below or the whole 30 minute show by clicking on my Press page.

Jennifer O'Connell at MTA
Lauren Modny/Fairfax County Public Schools

Showing a life-size baby blue whale and discussing my photo-research for A Garden of Whales (2.5 min)
The editorial process for Ten Timid Ghosts (2.5 min)
The revisions in A Garden of Whales (3 min)
Advice to aspiring picture book Author-Illustrators (1 min)

 

What’s New

I have two new books coming out in the fall of 2012: The Eye of the Whale, A Rescue Story, (Tilbury House), and It’s Halloween Night! (Cartwheel/Scholastic), illustrated by Jennifer Morris.


Hear a Ten Timid Ghosts Song

Click below to hear the children at The Purple Door Children's Centre in Nova Scotia, Canada sing Ten Timid Ghosts!

 



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