Jenny Alvarado is an award-winning author and illustrator of numerous titles from picture books to graphic novels. Among these is the three-time Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Pencil & Eraser early reader series which includes the 2025 Children’s Book Council Children’s Favorite Winner Pencil & Eraser: We Have A Dull-emma! and the 2025 Good Housekeeping Kids Book Award Winner Pencil & Eraser: Lost & Frown!

 

Her picture book titles consist of the 2025 Children’s Book Council Teacher Favorites Winner Agent Unicorn and Fridays Are For Churros, the spanish version of which, Los Viernes Comemos Churros  (translated by Ana Izquierdo), is on the New York Public Library’s Best Books of 2025.

 

Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Jenny currently resides on the Space Coast of Florida with her family. When she’s not working on books, she can be found volunteering at her son’s school or trying to convince her cat not to sit on her latest craft.