Natalie Lloyd (born February 2) is an American children's author.

Lloyd lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with her husband and dogs. She was born in Tennessee with a condition called osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, which means she only grew to 4 foot 11 inches tall and used either a walker or a wheelchair until seventh grade. She did a degree in journalism in college.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Awards and honours

Seven of Lloyd's books are Junior Library Guild selections: A Snicker of Magic (2014),^[8] A Snicker of Magic (2014),^[9] The Key to Extraordinary (2016),^[10] The Key to Extraordinary audiobook (2016),^[11] The Problim Children (2018),^[12] The Problim Children audiobook (2018),^[13] and Hummingbird (2022).^[14]

A Snicker of Magic which was a New York Times bestseller. The Los Angeles Public Library and NPR named A Snicker of Magic one of the best children's books of 2014.^[8][15] The following year, Bank Street College of Education included it on their list of the best books for children ages 9-12, marking it as a book of "Outstanding Merit."^[16] The Association for Library Service to Children named it a 2015 Notable Books selection.^[17][18]

Bank Street College of Education also included The Key to Extraordinary on their list of the best books of the year for children ages 9-12 in 2017.^[19]

Bibliography

• A Snicker of Magic (2014)
• The Key to Extraordinary (2016)
• Over the Moon (2019)

References and sources