Jennifer O'Connell is the author/illustrator of the best-selling Ten Timid Ghosts. A two-time winner of The Christopher Award for illustration, Jennifer also wrote and illustrated Ten Timid Ghosts on a Christmas Night which is featured in Merry Christmas: A Keepsake Storybook Collection and illustrated the popular A Garden of Whales.

"I grew up in Connecticut with an artistic mother and a father who loved to recite poetry and tell stories. He also read to us. I think that those early favorites such as Garth Williams' Scuppers the Sailor Dog and Dr. Seuss's Grinch all influenced me. By the time I went to Philadelphia College of Art, though, I had decided to focus on editorial illustration. Then I attended a lecture by Maurice Sendak and I began to fall in love with picture books. It is thrilling to produce a series of images that, together with the text, enable the reader to go to a special place in their imagination."

After obtaining a BFA in Illustration from Philadelphia College of Art (now known as The University of the Arts), Jennifer has produced award-winning designs and illustrations for newspapers, advertisements, educational publishers, food industry companies and associations, but her favorite work will always be creating picture books. "I love working on books for our most important audience and I truly enjoy connecting with children of all ages when I visit schools and libraries. I believe picture books are for everyone. After all, there is a child in each of us!"

Jennifer O'Connell currently lives in Bethesda, Maryland. For more information, please go to      http://www.jenniferoconnellart.com/,   http://content.scholastic.com/browse/collateral.jsp?id=41135  or  http://www.childrensbookguild.org/ 

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  Merry Christmas: A Keepsake Storybook Collection by Jerry Smath, Jennifer O'Connell, Lisa McCourt, and Cyd Moore This merry treasury of stories will warm every heart with holiday tales of sharing, caring, and bearing good tidings of Christmas cheer! This flocked keepsake format--at a new, lower price--will help make the holiday season joyful, readable, and huggable! Includes: ONCE THERE WAS CHRISTMAS TREE by Jerry Smath, TEN TIMID GHOSTS ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT by Jennifer O'Connell and MERRY CHRISTMAS, STINKY FACE by Lisa McCourt. $7.99 books;hardcover books;picture books | Ages 3-5

  
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