Kelly Starling Lyons is an award-winning author whose 17 titles for children span easy readers, picture books, chapter books, fiction, nonfiction, and series. For more than a decade, Lyons has been creating inspiring books that center Black heroes, celebrate family, friendship and heritage and show all children the storyteller they hold inside. Her acclaimed titles include Going Down Home with Daddy, Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice & Sing Inspired Generations, Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon, Tiara's Hat Parade and the Jada Jones chapter book series. Her new easy reader series with illustrator Nina Mata, Ty's Travels, debuts September 1. The first book, All Aboard, earned a starred Kirkus review. Lyons counts Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, Best of the Year and state award lists, Junior Library Guild selections, a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor among the accolades her books have received. Two of her books, Hope's Gift and Going Down Home with Daddy, have represented the states of North Carolina and Georgia, respectively, at the National Book Festival's Parade of the States. Lyons is a founding member of The Brown Bookshelf, a team dedicated to raising awareness of Black children's book creators, a Raleigh-Durham co-ambassador for The Authors Guild, and a teaching artist who visits schools, libraries, conferences and festivals nationwide. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and children where she facilitates a book club for boys that salutes literary treasures from Black authors and illustrators of today and the past. Learn more at www.kellystarlinglyons.com.
Series
Books

Dancing Queen
2019

One More Dino on the Floor
2016

Ty's Travels
All Aboard!
2020

Ty's Travels
Lab Magic
2022

Ty's Travels
Zip, Zoom!
2020

Tiara's Hat Parade
2020

Ellen's Broom
2012

A Girl Named Misty
The True Story of Misty Copeland
2018

Track Star
2023

One Million Men and Me
2007

Rock Star
2017

Tea Cakes for Tosh
2012

Nature Lover
2022

Ty's Travels
Camp-Out
2023

Matchmaker
2022

Winter Wonderland
2022

Going Down Home with Daddy
2019

Ty's Travels
Beach Day!
2021

She Persisted
Coretta Scott King
2022

Hope's Gift
2012

Whiz Kid
2022

Sleepover Scientist
2019

Class Act
2017

School Dazed
2016

Sky Watcher
2021

My Hands Tell a Story
2022

King of the Ice
2022

Sing a Song
How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations
2019