Author: Keri Demers

Keri lives in Topsfield, MA with her husband, two daughters, and a pesky little Bichon named Buddy. She's worked in the field of Elementary Education for twenty-one years, both as a classroom teacher and as a Reading Specialist/Literacy Coach, which is her current role. Her two favorite activities in life are teaching kids and writing for kids. She's pre-published but thrilled to have finally finished the first draft of her first novel (Contemporary YA)! She's dabbled in writing picture books as well but quickly found that writing four hundred words across thirty-two pages was harder than writing an entire 50,000-word novel. She's not giving up on picture books just yet, though. Keri's a member of SCBWI and two local critique groups.

Q: What do you get when you cross a tennis ball with some prairie dogs? A: An award-winning picture book recipe. (Obviously!)

I don’t know about you, but I see a regular, old, green tennis ball in that dog’s mouth. Author/Illustrator Janet Stevens, on the other hand, saw a mysterious green, fuzzy object from the POV of a prairie dog. And when this mysterious object rolled down a prairie dog tunnel, it caused mayhem amongst prairie dogs far and wide.

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Keep Calm and Ask a Librarian!

Over the past few years, in my role as an Elementary Literacy Coach, I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with Tinamarie Sheckells, the most amazing Elementary Librarian a School District could ever hope for. She is kind, brilliant, humble, and possesses a wealth of information (which you will see for yourself!)

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