Jane Ann Peddicord

Jane Ann Peddicord is an award winning children’s book author, lawyer, and space enthusiast.

Her first book, Night Wonders (Charlesbridge Publishing) is a mixed genre work, blending poetry, prose, non-fiction, and adventure to win the 2006 International Reading Association Children’s Book Award for Primary Nonfiction. Her next book, That Special Little Baby (Harcourt), illustrated by Meilo So, also incorporates rhyme, this time to celebrate toddler achievements of cosmic proportions.

In 2011, Jane launched SpaceBlog for young bloggers curious about the wonders of space and space exploration. Posts are liberally sprinkled with links to reliable sites so that readers can quickly find out more about whatever catches their interest. And they can play Space Game, a virtual hunt for mystery destinations in our solar system.

Jane has been a featured author at the Texas Book Festival, as well as at schools, public libraries, and universities, and is an author participant in the Texas Writer’s League Project WISE school enrichment program. She is currently writing a new book about space exploration in our solar system and a middle grade novel also involving out-of this-world destinations.

In addition to writing, Jane volunteers with American Gateways, providing pro bono legal services to immigrants and refugees in Central Texas, and serves on the board of the Texas After Violence Project, an oral history initiative that works to reduce violence by listening.

Jane lives happily in Austin, Texas with her husband (a UT math professor), their two children (in between University terms and internships), and their three springer spaniels.

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