“By providing our children with great literature we can nurture the readers, writers, and thinkers of the future. Although writing for kids is a lot of fun, it should not be taken lightly. They demand entertainment, and we must provide it, but they also deserve real art — literature that is deep, fresh, beautiful, and challenging.”
— Molly
The Babysitter Tree
Story by Molly Beth Griffin
Illustrations by Jennifer A. Bell
Minnesota Historical Society Press, October 2026
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The Babysitter Tree
Story by Molly Beth Griffin, illustrations by Jennifer A. Bell
Minnesota Historical Society Press, October 2026
“By providing our children with great literature we can nurture the readers, writers, and thinkers of the future. Although writing for kids is a lot of fun, it should not be taken lightly. They demand entertainment, and we must provide it, but they also deserve real art — literature that is deep, fresh, beautiful, and challenging.” — Molly
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picture books | young adult | poetry & more
Molly Beth Griffin is the author of several picture books including Ten Beautiful Things and Rhoda’s Rock Hunt, the YA novel Silhouette of a Sparrow, two poetry chapbooks, and a series of beginning readers. She is a teaching artist at The Loft Literary Center and a graduate of Hamline University’s MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She critiques manuscripts, visits schools, and hosts a monthly Picture Book Salon in Minneapolis, where she lives with her partner and their two children.
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