Laura Joffe Numeroff, American author and illustrator of children’s books, celebrates her birth date on July 14, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York.
Laura Joffe Numeroff, American author and illustrator of children’s books, celebrates her birth date on July 14, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York.
Laura is the youngest of three girls in her family and grew up surrounded by art, music and books. She was an avid reader as a child and was happy when she could take six books home from the library. She credits two favorite books as a child to her becoming a writer: “Eloise” by Kay Thompson and “Stuart Little” by E.B. White. She knew by age nine that she wanted to be a writer.
When she attended Pratt Institute, like her sister, she studied fashion but decided that was not for her and went back to her childhood dream of writing. She graduated Pratt with a degree in communications and published her first children’s book, “Amy for Short,” in 1975.
Laura is most famous for her “If You Give” series of books beginning with “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,” published in 1985.
Laura visits elementary schools, speaks at teacher conferences and works with service dogs and kids with disabilities.
Her hobbies include reading, watching movies, exploring California where she lives and driving in the country watching cows. She spent 25 years in New York City.
We have a number of her (B-2) books including: “If You Give a Dog a Donut;” “If You Take a Mouse to the Movies;” and “Why a Disguise?”
The next Summer Reading Program will take place Monday, July 17, at 1 p.m.
