Meet Megan
Megan Hoyt first fell in love with reading on a cozy branch of the crabapple tree outside her Texas home. Marguerite Henry’s “horsey books” still remind her of the loud Texas cicadas at dusk.
Megan's award-winning picture book biography, Bartali's Bicycle, came out in February 2021 with Harper Collins' new imprint, Quill Tree Books. Three more non-fiction picture books have quickly followed: The Greatest Song of All: How Isaac Stern United the World to save Carnegie Hall, Kati's Tiny Messengers: Dr. Katalin Kariko and the Battle Against Covid 19, and A Grand Idea: How William J Wilgus Created Grand Central Terminal (2024).
Her poem, "Thanksgiving by the Lake," appears in the Millbrook Press anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (2019), and her first picture book, Hildegard's Gift, came out in 2014 with Paraclete Press. Tzimmes for Tzipporah is her first Jewish-themed picture book, with Apples and Honey Press, a division of Behrman House.
Megan speaks at SCBWI conferences and workshops for teachers in the US and Canada. When she is not writing for children, she tutors child actors on set—Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes and Warner Bros' Wonder Woman 1984, among others.
You can follow her on social media at @meganhoytwrites.
Megan's award-winning picture book biography, Bartali's Bicycle, came out in February 2021 with Harper Collins' new imprint, Quill Tree Books. Three more non-fiction picture books have quickly followed: The Greatest Song of All: How Isaac Stern United the World to save Carnegie Hall, Kati's Tiny Messengers: Dr. Katalin Kariko and the Battle Against Covid 19, and A Grand Idea: How William J Wilgus Created Grand Central Terminal (2024).
Her poem, "Thanksgiving by the Lake," appears in the Millbrook Press anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (2019), and her first picture book, Hildegard's Gift, came out in 2014 with Paraclete Press. Tzimmes for Tzipporah is her first Jewish-themed picture book, with Apples and Honey Press, a division of Behrman House.
Megan speaks at SCBWI conferences and workshops for teachers in the US and Canada. When she is not writing for children, she tutors child actors on set—Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes and Warner Bros' Wonder Woman 1984, among others.
You can follow her on social media at @meganhoytwrites.
VERDICT: A charming tale, and to think it's all true! Whether readers are train and construction buffs or not, this is a living, breathing biography of a building, and the man who believed in it from the ground up. Extraordinary.
School Library Journal
VERDICT: A charming tale, and to think it's all true! Whether readers are train and construction buffs or not, this is a living, breathing biography of a building, and the man who believed in it from the ground up. Extraordinary.
School Library Journal
