Lost Pet Blues
(Love Puppies #2)

JaNay Brown-Wood, PhD, is an award-winning and New York Times Best-Selling children’s author, poet, educator, scholar, and a former professor of Early Childhood Education and Child Development. Her first children’s book Imani’s Moon won the NAESP Children’s Book of the Year Award and was featured on Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show, and her second book Grandma’s Tiny House: A Counting Story! won the CELI Read Aloud Book Award. JaNay has over twenty-five books published including the popular Where in the Garden picture book series, the Harriet Tubman and Simone Biles Little Golden Book Biographies, the Scholastic Love Puppies chapter book series, and the highly praised picture book Jam, Too!—an NCTE Notable Poetry Book for 2025. JaNay is also featured in several educational web-videos including Cooking with JaNay and Jammies with JaNay and she travels the country presenting to children, teachers, librarians, administrators, parents and community members. JaNay lives in California with her husband Catrayel, her daughter Vivian, and her turtle Theodora. Learn more about JaNay on her website.

JaNay Brown-Wood, PhD, es una autora de libros infantiles galardonada y un éxito de ventas del New York Times, poeta, educadora, académica y exprofesora de Educación Infantil y Desarrollo del Niño. Su primer libro infantil, Imani’s Moon, ganó el premio NAESP al Libro Infantil del Año y apareció en The Late Show con Stephen Colbert, y su segundo libro, Grandma’s Tiny House: A Counting Story!, ganó el premio CELI Read Aloud Book Award. JaNay tiene más de veinticinco libros publicados, incluyendo la popular serie de libros ilustrados Where in the Garden, las biografías de Little Golden Book de Harriet Tubman y Simone Biles, la serie de libros por capítulos Love Puppies de Scholastic y el elogiado libro ilustrado Jam, Too!, un libro de poesía notable de NCTE para 2025. JaNay también aparece en varios videos educativos en la web, incluidos Cooking with JaNay y Jammies with JaNay, y viaja por todo el país haciendo presentaciones para niños, maestros, bibliotecarios, administradores, padres y miembros de la comunidad. JaNay vive en California con su esposo Catrayel, su hija Vivian y su tortuga Theodora. Obtenga más información sobre JaNay en su sitio web.