April Prince

April Jones Prince is a children’s book author and editor who has worked in children’s publishing for more than 25 years. She holds a degree in journalism and mass communication with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a certificate in publishing from the Radcliffe (now Columbia) Publishing Course. Prince has worked in the editorial departments at William Morrow and HarperCollins Children’s Books and has also been a ghostwriter, children’s bookseller, and book reviewer. A picture book specialist, she currently edits and represents children’s book authors and illustrators at Studio Goodwin Sturges in Providence.

When not working with clients or RISD students on their book projects, she speaks at conferences and elementary schools and writes at her home in Massachusetts. She is the award-winning author of 14 books for young readers, including You Are a Reader!/You Are a Writer!, a nominee for the Bill Martin, Jr. Picture Book Award; What Do Wheels Do All Day?, a Child Magazine Best Book of the Year; and Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book and New York Public Library’s One Hundred Books for Reading & Sharing. Her next book, In This Library, will be published by Macmillan/Roaring Brook Press in 2026.