Ammi-Joan Paquette

Ammi-Joan Paquette is the author of twenty books for young readers, including the PW starred picture book All from a Walnut, and the middle-grade novel The Train of Lost Things, which was a 2019 Ontario Library Association’s Silver Birch Award nominee, a 2020 Rhode Island Children’s Book Award nominee, and is currently being adapted into a major motion picture. She was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award, and her writing has received recognition from Junior Library Guild, reviews in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and has been translated into nine languages. In her non-writing life, Joan is a Senior Literary Agent with Aevitas Creative Management, where she represents a list of New York Times Bestselling and award-winning authors and illustrators.