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Check out these three Mom’s Choice Awards® picture books from children’s author Janet Squires!

In each of Janet Squires’ books, she draws on her life as a cowgirl, her passion for children’s books and her experience with animals. So, she certainly has a deep well of inspiration.

Gracie Jane

Gracie Jane is always ready to lend a helping hand. So, she doesn't think twice about rescuing Fifi La Rue and taking the lost pup home. It's nonstop fun and excitement when one good deed turns this cowgirl's life upside down!

Target Ages: 4-8 years

Just Like Gulliver

Just Like Gulliver shares the adventure of a young groundhog who is frightened of his shadow until a fun-filled journey allows him to discover his courage on Groundhog Day.

Target Ages: 4-8 years

The Gingerbread Cowboy

The Gingerbread Cowboy can run from the rancher's wife, he can dash past the javalinas, and he can giddyup right by the cattle grazing on the mesa. But what happens when he meets a coyote sleeping in the sun?

Target Ages: Preschool-Grade 3

Where to Purchase

Retail copies of all Janet Squires’ books are available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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About the Author

Janet Squires began her career writing for regional and national magazines then shifted her interest to children's books. Her picture book, The Gingerbread Cowboy, published by HarperCollins, was the Arizona Governor’s 2007 First Grade Book. Squires belongs to SCBWI, Women Writing the West, Western Writers of America, and Western Fictioneers.