About Robie Harris
Author (New York, NY). Robie H. Harris was born in Buffalo, New York and has written over twenty-five children's books.
Robie writes picture books and nonfiction and is known for writing about serious issues with honesty and humor. Her most recent picture books, Maybe A Bear Ate It!, Mail Harry To The Moon!, and The Day Leo Said, I Hate You! all garnered starred reviews and awards. Her picture book Goodbye Mousie was a Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year, and Happy Birth Day was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Her internationally acclaimed book It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health, was a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, and a New York Times Best Book of the Year, as was her book It's So Amazing! A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families. Her book It's Not the Stork! A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families, and Friends, was an American Library Association Notable Book.
In 2005, It's Perfectly Normal was # 1 and It's So Amazing! was # 10 on the American Library Association's list of most frequently challenged books in America. Most recently, It's Perfectly Normal was listed as #7 on the American Library Association's list of most frequently challenged books of the 21st century.
Robie is a member of the Council of PEN New England, where she created and then chaired the Children's Book Caucus for a number of years. She has served on a number of non-profit boards, and received an honorary doctorate from Lesley University for her writing about sexual health.
