Hello!

Mylisa Larsen has been telling stories for a long time. This has caused her to get gimlet-eyed looks from her parents, her siblings and, later, her own children when they felt that certain stories had been embellished beyond acceptable limits. She now writes children’s books where her talent for hyperbole is actually rewarded.

She is the author of the novels Playing Through The Turnaround and Quagmire Tiarello Couldn’t Be Better (coming in Fall 2024) and the picture books All Of Those Babies, How To Put Your Parents To Bed, If I Were A Kangaroo and Ho Ho Homework.

She has lived in eight states and two countries and has loved things about each of them. Right now, she lives in upstate New York near one of the Finger Lakes where she loves the water and the trees and the old libraries.

  • “You must remember, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.”

    Anthony de Mello

  • "I think books create a sort of network in the reader’s mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction."

    Margaret Mahy

  • "All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times."

    Rosemary Wells

  • "To survive, you must tell stories."

    Umberto Eco

  • “All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”

    E.B. White

  • "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

  • "People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within."

    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • “. . . the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books, can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”

    Mary Oliver

Check Out the Latest Books Here