BETWEEN THE LINES
Amanda Jean Charlebois is a children’s book author and reflective writer who writes about faith as it is lived, not only as it is explained. Her debut picture book, The Hare Who Heard, follows a small hare who tries to become something else — a jackalope with makeshift junk antlers — before discovering he was created with care and intention all along. Through gentle animal story, she invites young readers to consider identity, belonging, and the quiet truth that worth is not earned by becoming enough.
Before writing, Amanda pursued interior design and project management, a path she once believed she needed in order to be enough and to belong. Over time she began to recognize how many voices shape our sense of worth, and her writing grew as she learned to listen instead for the quieter calling she believed God had placed on her life.​
Her ongoing body of work, The Details Between, grew from paying attention to ordinary days and finding they were not ordinary after all. Amanda writes stories and reflections shaped by the many places a life meets God: in singleness and waiting, in dating and marriage, in miscarriage and motherhood, in joy, fear, and the long forming of the heart. She believes every person carries a story, and that the Lord is present in each one, often most clearly in the moments we would least expect.
She writes for growing hearts, children, young readers, and the ones raising them. The hope in her writing is to encourage readers to abide daily in the Lord and learn to recognize His voice, even as she is learning to do the same. Art, photography and design are always in the background of her writing as another way of noticing: light across a table, a tree bud, small hands, falling snow,and the mercies hidden inside everyday life.
Amanda lives in Ottawa, Canada with her husband, son, and oversized cat; where many of her stories begin in the too early mornings, bedtime readings, and the grace found in the details between.
