Candace Fleming

Candace Fleming is the author of more than thirty distinguished books for children including Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera, which received an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor, 7 starred reviews, and was a Subaru Award finalist. Her book The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia received, among other awards, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction. She also received the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award and a Sibert Honor for Giant Squid. She is also the author of Cubs in the Tub: The True Story of the Bronx Zoo’s First Woman Zookeeper, illustrated by Julie Downing She lives in Chicago.