JUDITH HENDERSON cooks up a lot of stuff.​ She is an author, illustrator, a composer and children's TV producer.  She also wrote the theme song for the Emmy Award winning PBS show Arthur. 

BOOKS 2026
​I Told A Little Lie (Debut Author/Illustrated. Holiday House)

BOOKS 2025
​I Am My Name (Knopf - a life story about Indigenous woman, Nakuset.)
Willa and Wade–How To Spot A Spy 
Becca The Brave and Warren The Worst

​BOOKS 2024
Willa and Wade (3-book series, Kids Can Press). Stewart The Goodheart (Reycraft), Becca The Brave, (3-book series, Reycraft). 

BOOKS 2023: 
​Grandmother's Galore  (Abrams, illustrator Rashin Kheiriyeh ). Love Is in The Bear (Owl Kids, illustrator Nahid Kazemi). Lion On The Inside (Kids Can Press -the story of elite basketball player, Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir, illustrator Katherine Ahmed). How To Dragon (Reycraft, illustrator Kelly Collier).
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​MORE:
​Big Words Small Stories   (3-book series, Kids Can Press) now airing as an animated television show. Press link  AAAlligator! (Kids Can Press).  This Is A Dog Book! (Kids Can Press) Dee and Apostrofee (Kids Can Press).

OTHER STUFF:
Grandmothers Galore!
2024 - Best Books for Kids and Teens
2023- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection.

Love Is In The Bear
2023 - Kirkus: 150 most anticipated books for the Fall.
How To Dragon
2023 - CCBC selected as a Best Book For Kids

AWARDS: AAAlligator!
2023 -Washington Children’s Choice Picture Book Award, Washington Library Association, Nominated
2022 - Georgia Children`s Book Awards, University of Georgia, Finalist
2021 - CCBC Choices List, Cooperative Children's Book Center, Winner
2021 - Funniest Children`s Book Award, Joan Betty Stuchner Award —Winner
2021 - Shining Willow Award, SYRCA, Commended
AWARDS: This Is a Dog Book! 
​2022 -Alucin Society Award, Winner.

Lion On The Inside
2024 - SCBWI Finalist Russell Freeman Award For A Better World 
2023 - SLJ starred review.
​2023 - EUREKA! Nonfiction Children's Book Award
JLG - Junior Library Guild Gold Selection.