Eye Heart Literacy

Meet Award Winning Children's Author
Shondra M. Quarles
Impacting Lives Through Literacy

Shondra M. Quarles is a 3 X Best Selling author, Award-Winning author, and children's book publisher who resides in Dallas, Texas. In 2014, Ms. Quarles’ students inspired her to write and self-publish Kindergartner Wisdom: The Best Advice I Ever Got Came from Kindergartners. Shondra later went on to publish her first paperback book titled The Teacher Who Didn’t Want to Go to School, in 2016. This book earned her a prestigious award from the National Celebrity Educators for authoring a book about teachers. The Teacher Who Didn’t Want to Go to School was also a children’s book finalist for the 2017 and 2018 Indie Author Legacy Awards.
Shondra went on to write multiple books and was a featured author at the 2018 NAACP Convention. Her books were featured at the 2018 Essence Music Festival and Master P Reviews episode 41 in 2021. Recent projects include, Calvin’s Calm Coloring Book, and a set of 15 Beautiful You Journals featuring brown-skinned girls in every shade of beautiful. The coloring book was inspired by the pandemic and promotes social emotional learning. It is also a tool kids can use to talk about feelings and practice strategies that help them cope with big emotions. Her tribute book to Chadwick Boseman is currently available at the African American Museum in Dallas, and Howard University's B& N bookstore. The book features Black Panther-inspired artwork created by 12 worldwide artists. Shondra is also the creator of Teacher Lives Matter t-shirts. Follow her writing journey @eyeheartteaching and @eyeheartliteracy.

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