Sherley Mondesir-Prescott

Sherley Mondesir-Prescott began writing at the age of 14 when she was in high school. Mondesir-Prescott barely spoke English since she had only lived in the U.S. for less than a year. Her parents, siblings and she relocated from beautiful but politically-tumultuous Haiti to New York in 1990 when she was 13 years old. During her high school years, she wrote many poems, short stories and plays. As a result, she was inducted into her school district's prestigious Talented and Gifted Program. Mondesir-Prescott studied psychology at Queens College-City University of New York. Then more recently, Mondesir-Prescott studied children’s literature at the Institute of Children’s Literature.

Today, Mondesir-Prescott lives in Central Florida with her husband and their two toddlers, and she is still writing. Writing allows this author to create worlds that are completely different from her own. Writing allows her to dig deeply into her imagination and pull out situations that exist in her mind. Since Mondesir-Prescott writes for young children (age 0 to 6 years), she turns her imaginative stories into adventures that are easy for kids to relate to. In fact, Mondesir-Prescott was honored by her readers and was voted as one of The Authors’ Show’s “50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading.”

The writing process, for Mondesir-Prescott, is fun and suspenseful. She develops her children’s stories in a poetic manner. She describes the setting with sensory adjectives: slushy, slimy, cool, steep, leafy, gentle, cozy and so on. Any child can easily put him/herself in the story and go on a sensory journey. For example, in her children’s picture book “If Your Shoes Could Speak,” Mondesir-Prescott writes: “Climb up a steep hill. Slide down a slippery slope. Jump over a gushing stream. Duck under a leafy branch. Hear small rocks crunch under every paw step. If your walking shoes could speak, they would groan.”

Mondesir-Prescott writes for readers who want to be transported into the story and be part of the fantasy. She writes to entertain.