Julie Abery

 

Julie Abery is an award-winning children’s author and former preschool teacher, who shaped her career by reading picture books to children from around the world.

Throughout the many years of teaching English to her classes in international schools, picture books have been her friends and allies bringing rhyme, rhythm, and repetition to the ears of her young students. She still occasionally teaches in French, where she shares her joy of picture books, storytelling, and song with her local community. It is the magic that picture books create for children that inspires her writing.

Originally from England, Julie now calls Switzerland home.

Board books: Little Animal Friends series: Little Tiger and Little Panda 2019, Little Hippo and Little Monkey 2020, Little Penguin and Little Zebra 2021, and Little Otter and Little Walrus 2023. Baby Dinosaur series: Baby T.Rex and Baby Stegosaurus 2023, Baby Triceratops and Baby Diplodocus 2024, and Baby Pterosaur and Baby Spinosaurus (2025).

Other publications include a nonfiction picture book biography entitled Yusra Swims from Creative Editions (February 2020); the true story The Old Man and the Penguin: A True Story of True Friendship, Kids Can Press (October 2020) and another nonfiction picture book Sakamoto’s Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory from Kids Can Press (May 2021).

 

Publications

  • Baby Pterosaur, Amicus Ink, August 2025

  • Baby Spinosaurus, Amicus Ink, August 2025

  • Baby Triceratops, Amicus Ink, August 2024

  • Baby Diplodocus, Amicus Ink, August 2024

  • Baby Stegosaurus, Amicus Ink, August 2023

  • Little Otter, Amicus Ink, March 2023

  • Little Walrus, Amicus Ink, August 2023

  • Baby T. Rex, Amicus Ink, August 2023

    • Amazon Editors’ Pick, August 2023

  • Sakamoto's Swim Club - How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory, Kids Can Press, May, 2021

    • NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Recommended Book, 2022

    • (CLR SIG) Notable Book for a Global Society, 2022

    • USBBY Outstanding International Book List, 2022

    • 2021 Cybils Award Finalist Elementary Nonfiction

    • 2021 Starred Booklist review

    • 2021 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard book selection

    • Booklist Editors' Choice Books for Youth 2021

  • Little Zebra, Amicus Ink, March, 2021 

  • Little Penguin, Amicus Ink, March, 2021

    • Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year, 2021 Edition, Under Five List.

  • The Old Man and the Penguin : A True Story of True Friendship, Kids Can Press, October, 2020

    • 2020 Starred Booklist review

  • Yusra Swims, Creative Editions, February, 2020

  • Little Monkey, Amicus Ink, February, 2020

  • Little Hippo, Amicus Ink, February, 2020

  • Little Tiger, Amicus Ink, March, 2019

  • Little Panda, Amicus Ink, March, 2019