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American children's author
Natalie Lloyd
BornFebruary 2
Tennessee
NationalityAmerican
Websitenatalielloyd.com

Natalie Lloyd (born February 2) is an American children's author.

Lloyd lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with her husband and dogs. She was born in Tennessee with a condition called osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, which means she only grew to 4 foot 11 inches tall and used either a walker or a wheelchair until seventh grade. She did a degree in journalism in college.

Awards and honours

Seven of Lloyd's books are Junior Library Guild selections: A Snicker of Magic (2014), A Snicker of Magic audiobook (2014), The Key to Extraordinary (2016), The Key to Extraordinary audiobook (2016), The Problim Children (2018), The Problim Children audiobook (2018), and Hummingbird (2022).

A Snicker of Magic which was a New York Times bestseller. The Los Angeles Public Library and NPR named A Snicker of Magic one of the best children's books of 2014. The following year, Bank Street College of Education included it on their list of the best books for children ages 9-12, marking it as a book of "Outstanding Merit." The Association for Library Service to Children named it a 2015 Notable Books selection.

Bank Street College of Education also included The Key to Extraordinary on their list of the best books of the year for children ages 9-12 in 2017.

Awards for Lloyd's writing
Year Title Award Result Ref.
2015 A Snicker of Magic E. B. White Read Aloud Award Honor
Mythopoeic Award for Children's Literature Winner
NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Recommended
Odyssey Award Honor
2023 Hummingbird Schneider Family Book Award Best Middle Grade Book Honor

Bibliography

  • A Snicker of Magic (2014)
  • The Key to Extraordinary (2016)
  • Over the Moon (2019)

Series

  • The Problim Children (2018)
  • Carnival Catastrophe (2019)
  • Island in the Stars (2020)

References and sources

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