Emma Bland Smith

EMMA BLAND SMITH is a librarian and the author of children’s picture books, including Odin, Dog Hero of the Fires, Mr. McCloskey’s Marvelous Mallards and How Science Saved the Eiffel Tower.

Her debut picture book, Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7, the Most Famous Wolf in the West, won Bank Street College’s Cook Prize and the Northland College SONWA award.

When she’s not writing, Smith works as a librarian at the San Francisco Public Library.

Emma lives in San Francisco with her family and pets.

Emma Bland Smith’s books are published by West Margin Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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