Jessica Love is the award winning author & illustrator of Julián Is a Mermaid, Julián at the Wedding and A Bed of Stars. She studied Visual Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and then Drama at The Juilliard School. She lived New York City for 15 years working in the theater, and now she lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and son, and making books.

Little Passenger

A tender picture book explores the journey of an unborn child toward birth, and the love it receives as it grows, in a perfect gift for new and expanding families everywhere. Beloved, protected, and growing—from pea size to pumpkin size to baby—a little passenger is getting ready to meet the world. In this beautiful picture book evoking all the vulnerability, hope, and tenderness of pregnancy, Deirdre Sullivan’s simple, poetic words capture the inner dialogue and deeply felt connection between a mother and her unborn child. Jessica Love, creator of the celebrated Julián Is a Mermaid, brings her singular art to the pages in an inspired pairing sure to be treasured by expecting parents and older siblings-to-be.

Festival Years