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    • Samara Cole Doyon

    Samara Cole Doyon Samara Cole Doyon is a poet, educator, and award-winning children’s book author living on unceded Wabanaki/Abenaki territory. She is a neurodivergent mother of neurodivergent children, continually learning more from her offspring than they could ever learn from her. She earned both a LupineAward and an International Literacy Association Award for her debut picture book, Magnificent Homespun Brown, and her second children’s book, Magic Like That, received a starred review from Kirkus and made the Bookstagang Best Picture Books of 2021 list. Samara works at Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance and resides with her husband, two children, and rescue pup in central Maine.

    Samara Cole Doyon

    Samara Cole Doyon Samara Cole Doyon is a poet, educator, and award-winning children’s book author living on unceded Wabanaki/Abenaki territory. She is a neurodivergent mother of neurodivergent children, continually learning more from her offspring than they could ever learn from her. She earned both a LupineAward and an International Literacy Association Award for her debut picture book, Magnificent Homespun Brown, and her second children’s book, Magic Like That, received a starred review from Kirkus and made the Bookstagang Best Picture Books of 2021 list. Samara works at Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance and resides with her husband, two children, and rescue pup in central Maine.

    Awards

    Winner — Coretta Scott King Award, 2021

    Winner — Coretta Scott King Award, 2021

    Winner — Coretta Scott King Award, 2021

    Books by Samara Cole Doyon

    • Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration

      Samara Cole Doyon, Kaylani Juanita

      Hardback, 2020

      With vivid illustrations by Kaylani Juanita, Samara Cole Doyon sings a carol for the plenitude that surrounds us and the self each of us is meant to inhabit.

    • Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration

      Samara Cole Doyon, Kaylani Juanita

      Paperback, 2022

      Told by a succession of exuberant young narrators, Magnificent Homespun Brown is a story—a song, a poem, a celebration—about feeling at home in one’s own beloved skin.

    • Magnificent Homespun Brown: A Celebration

      Samara Cole Doyon, Kaylani Juanita

      E Book, 2020

      With vivid illustrations by Kaylani Juanita, Samara Cole Doyon sings a carol for the plenitude that surrounds us and the self each of us is meant to inhabit.

    • Next Level: A Hymn in Gratitude for Neurodiversity

      Samara Cole Doyon, Kaylani Juanita

      Hardback, 2024

      From the award-winning team behind Magnificent Homespun Brown, Samara Cole Doyon and Coretta Scott King Award Honoree Kaylani Juanita, comes a song of gratitude for those who see the world in a...

    • Next Level: A Hymn in Gratitude for Neurodiversity

      Samara Cole Doyon, Kaylani Juanita

      E Book

      From the award-winning team behind Magnificent Homespun Brown, Samara Cole Doyon and Coretta Scott King Award Honoree Kaylani Juanita, comes a song of gratitude for those who see the world in a...

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