Lori Houran

Lori Haskins Houran has written more than fifty children's books, including Next to You , named a Best Picture Book of 2016 by School Library Journal; Button Your Buttons , which received a starred review from Kirkus in 2020; and the soon-to-be-released Close Your Eyes , hailed by SLJ as "a perfect bedtime work." She's also the author of the popular easy readers Too Many Dogs and Too Many Cats , which together have sold more than 700,000 copies. Lori is a former Senior Editor at Random House...See more

Lori Haskins Houran has written more than fifty children's books, including Next to You , named a Best Picture Book of 2016 by School Library Journal; Button Your Buttons , which received a starred review from Kirkus in 2020; and the soon-to-be-released Close Your Eyes , hailed by SLJ as "a perfect bedtime work." She's also the author of the popular easy readers Too Many Dogs and Too Many Cats , which together have sold more than 700,000 copies. Lori is a former Senior Editor at Random House and Editorial Director at Golden Books. She lives in Massachusetts with her family. See less