My name is Amy Huntington and I am an illustrator and an author of children’s books. My sketchbooks go with me everywhere, and that’s where some of my picture book ideas begin. At home you’ll mostly find me in my studio, working on drawings and words for these projects.

My story adventures began early, drawing castles, sleds, and my siblings with the chicken pox Writing silly poems was a favorite pastime. After college I settled in Vermont, exhibiting my paintings in various New England galleries, but as a new mother I fell in love with picture books. Now my studio is filled with lots of drawings and lots of words. Some turn into picture books.

The summer of 2022, I spent two weeks at Geo-Camp with 20+ science teachers traveling through Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. From a volcano caldera, the footwall of a fault, or a glacial valley, to a pristine flowing stream, I had a chance to observe and learn about geological processes, fluvial concepts, and some of the effects of climate change on our environment. We looked for fossils in ancient buttes, saw the K-PG boundary- a thin layer of material marking the mass dinosaur extinction, 66 million years ago, and slid down dunes at the Great Sand Dunes National Park. I toured a gold mine, explored caverns, and soaked in a hot spring. I saw great-horned sheep, marmots, lizards, pikas, and elk, and lots and lots of rocks. A few I lugged home. Now can I please be a geologist, too?

Represented by Erzsi Deak at Hen and Ink Literary.

Member SCBWI and Authors Guild.