Jennifer O'Connell

Jennifer O’Connell is a picture book author and illustrator who celebrates stories about how people connect with and help other animals. Her forthcoming book, Saving Puff - A Puffin Rescue Story is a fictional story inspired by the real-life puffin rescue tradition of families on an island in Iceland, where Jennifer visited to research the book. Her other titles include Elephants Remember, praised by Booklist as a story that “awakens a sense of wonder,” and The Eye of the Whale – A Rescue Story, recipient of the Green Earth Book Award. Her earlier book, Ten Timid Ghosts, was a New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, and USA Today bestseller with more than one million copies sold to date. Jennifer lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her husband and their dog with whom she connects joyfully every day.