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Jean, captured in the back of a school bus, holds her ground as a chaperone, ensuring the ride to
Roller World doesn’t spiral into chaos.
Jean Stehle (steel) is an educator, writer, and bookfluencer. She studied cinema and photography at Ithaca College and received a master's in education from Columbia.
Jean is a middle school librarian in Newton, MA. She has consulted for PBS Learning Media, taught graduate level courses focusing on children's literature in the classroom, and spoken on panels about censorship and its effects on student reading.
Jean is one of the co-founding organizers of the Newton Children's Book Festival. The first of its kind in eastern Massachusetts, the NCBF's inaugural event featured 60+ children's authors and illustrators and welcomed over 1,000 attendees. She is also an ambassador to the Associates of the Boston Public Library.
Jean has moderated panels at several bookstores in Boston and neighboring communities: including Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Hummingbird Books in Chestnut Hill, among others. Her next event is at Story. on Cape Cod.
At her local bookstore, Newtonville Books, she has been in conversation with writer, publisher, and podcaster, Zibby Owens; USA Today bestselling author, Hank Phillippi Ryan; Zibby Books author Alisha Fernandez Miranda; and Rob Schwartz, editor of The Wisdom of Morrie, written by his late father, Morrie Schwartz, the eponymous subject of the beloved classic, Tuesdays with Morrie. Additionally, she has been in conversation with Civil Rights icon, Ruby Bridges.
A writer since she was a girl, Jean is going after her dream of becoming a published author and is revising her coming-of-middle-age novel.
She lives just outside of Boston with her one husband, two children and countless books.