Author Nancy Atkins at Honeybee Boutique

Please join us on Saturday, December 13th from 1-2 pm and meet local author Nancy Atkins.  She will be reading her book ‘The First 12 Days of Winter’.

The niece of a children’s librarian, Nancy was surrounded by “discarded” children’s picture books long before she could read. Although the pages were torn and the bindings worn, these books were a gold mine to her and she spent hours poring over their pictures and making up her own stories. By the time she started school, Nancy knew she wanted to be a writer.

With a lifelong passion to share her love of reading and writing with children, Nancy has spent hundreds of hours in the classroom working one-on-one with students and leading entire classes through fun workshops—from writing and illustrating their own picture books, to discovering the creative process of authors, to publishing classroom toy catalogs that incorporate writing, drawing, and STEM skills.

A graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature, Nancy also has a BA degree in Journalism. She’s developed curriculums for reading readiness in primary grades, English as a second language course for adults, is a published poet, and writes picture books for children in both prose and rhyming verse.