Biography
Susan Hood is the author of more than 200 children’s books, including Tickly Toes, The Tooth Mouse (winner of ReadBoston’s 2013 Best Read Aloud Book Award) and a series of ten Pup and Hound beginning readers for Kids Can Press.~ ~Before becoming a full-time author, Susan was the Children’s Content Director for Nick Jr. Magazine and a book editor at Sesame Street and Scholastic. She has written for parents in the New York Times, Working Mother magazine and more.~ ~When not writing, Susan enjoys sailing with her husband from her home in Southport, Connecticut, to ports along the New England coast. Many ideas for new books come from those days sailing the ocean blue. Six more picture books are in the works!
Awards
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The Tooth Mouse
2013 - Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, Canadian Library Association, Commended
2013 - Best Books for Kids & Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Winner
2013 - Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street Children's Book Committee, Winner
2013 - Best Read Aloud Book Award, Read Boston, Winner
2013 - CCBC Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center, Commended
2012 - PAL Award, , Winner
First Readers
Pup and Hound’s Big Book of Stories, 2014
Pup and Hound Scare a Ghost, 2007
Pup and Hound Lost and Found, 2006
Pup and Hound at Sea, 2006
Pup and Hound in Trouble, 2005
Pup and Hound Stay Up Late, 2005
Pup and Hound, 2004
Pup and Hound Move In, 2004Picture Books
Tickly Toes, 2014
The Tooth Mouse, 2012