About

Hello and welcome! Wineberry Woods grew out of a silly song my kids came up with during our weekly trips to parks and the various adventures that followed. They love to find and eat wineberries along the trail. When we aren’t tromping through the woods making up songs about berries, I run Wineberry Woods, write books, draw pictures and am the founder of Wineberry Wood Press…

Wineberry Wood Press is a micro-press that produces educational books and materials that support multidisciplinary project based lessons and celebrate nature, cultivate wonder and honor the turning of the wheel…

Illustration samples from pictures books and commercial clients. 

Jessie Lehson is an author/ illustrator and a former professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She holds an MFA from MICA. She is an active member of SCBWI, Julie Hedlund’s 12×12 Picture Book Challenge and the kidlit community. She is an artist, naturalist and the founder of one of the only urban public nature schools in the U.S.; Watershed Public Charter School…