Nancy I. Sanders is the children's author of over 100 books, published with houses both big and small. Nancy's nonfiction picture book, D is for Drinking Gourd: An African American Alphabet, (Sleeping Bear Press) won various awards and sold over 80,000 copies upon initial publication. Her delightful classroom bestseller with Scholastic Teaching Resources, 25 Read and Write Mini-Books That Teach Word Families, has sold over 300,000 copies and is still selling strong. Two of Nancy's most current book projects include the engaging One Sentence Storybooks for beginning readers with Focus on the Family/Tyndale and The Bible Explorer's Guide with Zonderkidz (co-winner of the ECPA's 2018 Young People's Literature Award for the best in MG/YA nonfiction in the Christian market). Her nonfiction MG biography, Jane Austen for Kids, had a release-date in February, 2019 with Chicago Review Press. To learn more about Nancy, please visit her website at www.nancyisanders.

com.