About the Author/Illustrator
MONIQUE DUNCAN is dedicated to teaching and positively impacting our youth through education and the arts. She is the founder of Sweet Pea Books, Inc. and has served students from the South Bronx, Westchester and throughout New York City.
She writes multicultural stories for children that inspire, amuse and foster a love of reading. Her books provide another lens, another voice and another opportunity for children of color to interact with literature that features images and experiences with which they can identify. She aims to help cultivate a child’s understanding of themselves, their communities and the world around them.
Born and raised in White Plains, NY, Duncan always enjoyed writing and drawing as a child. She earned a BA in Journalism from Temple University and an MA in Childhood Education from Iona College. Duncan has published 2 multicultural books for children. She received an Ezra Jack Keats Book nomination for When Mama Braids My Hair in 2019. She also received honorable mention for her exotic fruit alphabet book, D is for Dragon Fruit, from the New York Book Festival in 2012. Duncan now lives in the Bronx and continues to teach children as she works on future book projects.
“The world is at your fingertips...explore it page by page.” -M. Duncan
MONIQUE DUNCAN is dedicated to teaching and positively impacting our youth through education and the arts. She is the founder of Sweet Pea Books, Inc. and has served students from the South Bronx, Westchester and throughout New York City.
She writes multicultural stories for children that inspire, amuse and foster a love of reading. Her books provide another lens, another voice and another opportunity for children of color to interact with literature that features images and experiences with which they can identify. She aims to help cultivate a child’s understanding of themselves, their communities and the world around them.
Born and raised in White Plains, NY, Duncan always enjoyed writing and drawing as a child. She earned a BA in Journalism from Temple University and an MA in Childhood Education from Iona College. Duncan has published 2 multicultural books for children. She received an Ezra Jack Keats Book nomination for When Mama Braids My Hair in 2019. She also received honorable mention for her exotic fruit alphabet book, D is for Dragon Fruit, from the New York Book Festival in 2012. Duncan now lives in the Bronx and continues to teach children as she works on future book projects.
“The world is at your fingertips...explore it page by page.” -M. Duncan