Valarie Budayr is the author of The Fox Diaries: The Year the Foxes came to our garden (Audrey Press). She is a regular contributor to the online magazine Rhythm of the Home and The Little Acorn Enrichment Guides. Valarie is the founder of Jump into a Book, a website dedicated to creating fun activities and adventures for children, families, and all who love books from "our" favorite children's books. She is the owner and creative director of Audrey Press, an independent publishing house. Valarie lives at the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee with her husband and three children. You can find Valarie writing daily on her award winning blog "A Place Like This."

Valarie is a two-time NEA Meet the Composer grant winner.

Audrey Press
Located within the walls of our creative studios at the foothills of the breathtakingly beautiful Smoky Mountains (Maryville, Tennessee), Audrey Press prides itself in working hard to create books, e-books, and enhanced e-books. Our main focus is to create paths that open up the world of possibilities for readers of all ages, through the magic of books, reading and play. Home of the “Book Jumping” concept, Audrey Press creates and publishes stories that reawaken for us the passionate idea of living inside the pages of a book. Each story is a gateway into a magical world that takes reading from a solitary act to a group adventure that includes friends, families, neighborhoods, schools and communities.

A Place Like This

Jump Into A Book
Jump into a Book is a site about our love of children’s books and how we can incorporate them into our everyday lives through play, crafting, cooking, movies, games, traveling, and author visits.