Story Time with
Leslie Barnard Booth
author of
I Am We: How Crows Come Together to Survive
at A Children's Place on November 9 at 2:00
and schools all over Portland throughout the fall!
Leslie Barnard Booth writes lyrical picture books about science and nature. Her first two books, ONE DAY THIS TREE WILL FALL and A STONE IS A STORY, were both Bank Street Best Books of the Year, NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books, and Crystal Kite Award winners. Additionally, ONE DAY THIS TREE WILL FALL received the International Literacy Association's 2025 Primary Nonfiction Book Award and was named Oregon's 2025 Great Reads from Great Places youth selection. Leslie's most recent release, I AM WE: HOW CROWS COME TOGETHER TO SURVIVE, explores the social lives of crows. Leslie has taught at preschool, elementary, and college levels and holds an MFA in creative writing and an MS in education from the University of Oregon. Thanks to her daughters, she has relearned what children seem to know intuitively: that every snail, stone, and clump of moss is full of wonder, if only we take the time to look. Visit her at lesliebarnardbooth.com.
