About Me(g)

Meg Fleming is an award-winning children’s book author, a fan of all dogs and a big-time laugher. Also, a voice teacher and former music educator & performer, Meg draws on her love of rhythm, rhyme, and lyricism to create and imagine stories. 

As a kid, Meg was always “wondering about.” She wondered out the car window, and up the branches of trees. She wondered along beaches and deep into crackling campfires. At some point she wasn’t able to keep all of her wonderings to herself. Luckily, at a friend’s birthday party in fifth grade, she reached into a grab bag and pulled out a journal. 

Something about it seemed to whisper, what if?

The answers to a few of these what-if’s can be found in her books at the library, in your schools and on bookshelves around the world.

Meg’s book I Was Born A Baby (Illus. Brandon James Scott) has been highly honored as a Kids Indie Next Pick, a Canadian Children’s Book Center Best Book of 2022, a 2023 California Golden Poppy Finalist, a Texas Library Association 2x2 book, a Readerlink Picture Book of the Month, and a 2023 Redbud Read-Aloud Award Finalist. And I Live In A Tree Trunk (illus. Scott) is a 2024 California Golden Poppy Finalist and a 2024 Redbud Read-Aloud Award Finalist. Sounds Like School Spirit (Illus. Lucy Ruth Cummins) is #1 in Today’s Back To School Books, was a #1 New Release on Amazon, and a California Poppy Award Finalist. Wondering Around (illus. Richard Jones) has been featured by The New York Times as well as Seven Impossible Things, and in 2023 it was translated into French - titled Tout Autour De Toi. Her 2022 release, Rock That Vote (illus. Lucy Ruth Cummins) immediately saw stars from Publishers Weekly and and is taking school elections by storm. In 2019, Meg’s book Sometimes Rain, illustrated by Diana Sudyka, was named an ALA Top 5 Picture Book for Sustainability. Ready, Set, Sail!, a jaunty sailing adventure, illustrated by Luke Flowers, was named a 2019 Illinois Reads Book. In 2017, Meg won the Children’s Fiction Honoree Award from the Society of Midland Authors for her text in her debut picture book, I Heart You, illustrated by Sarah Jane Wright. Most importantly, Meg’s books are loved by dreamers and thinkers of all ages. 

Meg writes from her home outside of San Francisco, where she lives with her three kids, her one husband and their adorable dog named, Opal. 

Meg enjoys visiting schools, libraries and writers’ conferences to share her passion for writing with kids and adults of all ages. 

A note from Meg:

Gem Spelled Backwards

I’ve been playing with words for as long as I can remember. The first word that really had me thinking was the word squirrel. (I’ll let you say that a few times.) And the second word was my very own name. 

My name is Meg, but if you spell it backwards, it becomes something totally different. Once I found that hidden message as a kid, I was hooked on looking at words, and the world, in my own special way.

Now, I write books for kids, and I read and speak and write with kids, with the hope that that they too will find their own unique way of looking at things while discovering the treasure of their own voice.