I'm Jane Whittingham - a Canadian picture book author, children's librarian and tea drinker.
Let's Work Together!
Storytimes
Kids move, groove and learn with interactive, engaging, vocabulary-building storytimes featuring my award-winning books.
Writing Workshops
Inspire writers of all ages and stages with hands-on writing workshops tailored to the needs and interests of your school, library or organization.
Writer-For-Hire
Whether you're looking to publish a textbook on crustaceans, a picture book adaptation of a popular cartoon, or just about anything in between, I've got the skills and experience to make it happen.
Author Visits
Give students a sneak peek into the world of publishing with an interactive, engaging and completely customized author visit, offered in person or virtually.
I’ve discovered a new addiction – nonfiction poetry! It’s so much fun to write poems about different creatures, especially because it means I get to do one of my other favourite activities – research! Have...
Was ever a creature so beautifully named as the Stargazer fish? The Stargazer is so named on account of its striking, bulbous eyes, through which it stares up at the waters above, waiting to ambush...
I’m keeping with this year’s Summer Reading Club theme of “Under the Sea” and sharing another poem about an oddly named sea creature. This time we’re hearing from the vampire squid, which, as should perhaps...
It’s almost Summer Reading Club time (also known as the most wonderful time of the year for children’s librarians), and this year the theme in my province is “Under the Sea” with art by local...
