About

Marianne Berkes, national award-winning picture book author, promotes literacy achievement by combining science, math, language, music and art in her 20 (and counting) informational picture books. Having spent much of her life as a teacher, children's theater director and children's librarian, she knows how much kids enjoy "interactive" stories that make learning fun. An energetic presenter at schools and conferences, her books are "so much more than a picture book!" Her newest book The Swamp Where Gator Hides was also made into an App for kids. www.marianneberkes.com

Featured Work

The Swamp Where Gator Hides

2014

Other Works

  • Over on a Desert

    2018

  • Baby on Board, How Animals Carry Their Young

    2017

  • Over in the Grasslands, On an African Savanna

    2016

  • Over on a Mountain, Somewhere in the World

    2015

  • Tortoise and Hare's Amazing Race

    2015

  • Daisylocks

    2014

  • What's in the Garden?

    2013

  • Anybody Home?

    2013

  • Over in a River, Flowing Out to Sea

    2013

  • Over in the Forest; Come and Take a Peak

    2012

  • The Tree That Bear Climbed

    2012

  • Animalogy

    2011

  • Over in Australia, Amazing Animals Down Under

    2011

  • Going Home, The Mystery of Animal Migration

    2010

  • Over in the Arctic, Where the Cold Winds Blow

    2009

  • Going Around the Sun, Some Planetary Fun

    2008

  • Over in the Jungle, A Rainforest Rhyme

    2007

  • Over in the Ocean, in a Coral Reef

    2004

  • Seashells by the Seashore

    2003

  • Marsh Music

    2001

Awards and Recognition

  • Benjamin Franklin God Award
  • ForeWard Magazine Book of the Year
  • Gelett Burgess Book Award
  • Greenbook Festival Book Award
  • Indie Book Award
  • IRA Teachers' Choice
  • Izaak Walton LeagueBook of the Year
  • Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice
  • Moonbeam Children's Book Gold Award
  • Mom's Choice Awards (Gold)