Ann Ingalls passes the day exaggerating (writing fiction) or telling the truth (writing nonfiction). Ann has written over sixty books for young readers. Pencil: A Story with a Point! made the Banks Street Best Books list of 2020. J Is for Jazz won the 2015 Annual American Graphic Design Award and the Ella Fitzgerald Foundation's "A Book Just for Me!". Little Piano Girl also won the Ella Fitzgerald Foundation's " A Book Just for Me! ". She has received a handful of awards from the Highlights Foundation for poetry and short stories.