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Bestselling author, Deb Gruelle’s latest book, Sleepy Time Colors, helps children feel secure enough to fall asleep as they follow cuddly animal friends finding their favorite jammies to get ready for bed. Children will learn their colors as they lift the flaps in this rhyming bedtime board book. Sleepy Time Colors is the perfect companion book to her bestselling Ten Little Night Stars. (Zonderkidz/HarperCollins, AUG 2020)
Ten Little Night Stars helps little ones securely transition to sleep as they follow cuddly animals through their bedtime routine. Children will also learn through sweet, interactive rhyming verse how to count to ten as each new star appears in the night sky. (Zonderkidz/HarperCollins, 2018)
Aching for a Child: Emotional, Spiritual and Ethical Insights for Women Suffering through Infertility and Miscarriage, also written by Deb, offers support for women dealing with issues they often face while struggling with infertility or miscarriage. (David C. Cook) Her 16-year journey to have a family of three children prepared Deb to write this book. (Hungarian 2nd edition 2016, U.S. 2nd edition 2020)
Deb has children’s writing in her blood because she’s related to Johnny Gruelle, the creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy. She loved growing up on “Uncle Johnny’s” whimsical stories. She now feels honored to share her own stories to help children feel secure and encourage giggling. Though both Deb’s parents and kids are quite artistic, this skill seems to have skipped her generation entirely, so she’s especially grateful for Gabi Murphy, the wonderful illustrator for Ten Little Night Stars and Sleepy Time Colors.
Writing and Speaking
Deb’s been featured on multiple radio broadcasts, including Family Life Today. She also enjoys speaking at conferences and to kids in schools. A recovering Silicon Valley technical writer, she’s written over 100 articles for women’s and parenting magazines including American Baby and Bay Area Parent, as well as storyboards for children’s games.
Passions
Because of Deb’s passion for supporting children, she volunteers as a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) to help children in foster care navigate the court system. This passion has also led her to volunteer at local women and children’s shelters and as a coach with Habitat for Humanity. She currently serves as the chaplain to Inspire Christian Writers.
She loved the years she spent homeschooling her three children and is grateful they all survived to adulthood. She lives in California where she loves speaking about children’s literacy and the joys of reading aloud with children early and often.
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written.
And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups,
then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L’Engle
“When I say to a parent, “read to a child”,
I don’t want it to sound like medicine.
I want it to sound like chocolate. “
— Mem Fox
