Celia Straus

Author Celia Straus has written hundreds of award-winning shows for television receiving a 2020 Emmy nomination for Kids Speak Out, a YouTube series on Youth and issues that concern them. For years she created and wrote the Emmy winning Memorial Day Concert on PBS and ADL's annual Concert Against Hate at the Kennedy Center. Her love for children and dedication to their well being inspired her YA poetry trilogy including the national best seller, Prayers on My Pillow, Ballantine 1998. With gifted illustrators like Tina Salvesen, Joyce Guo and Linda Chambers she writes picture books for children about endangered species such as elephants, bees, red pandas and butterflies. Celia lives in Washington DC with her husband when not visiting her two grown daughters and adored six grandchildren.