Kristy Alpert is a best-selling children’s book author and an award-winning freelance journalist, with bylines in The New York Times, Parents, Travel + Leisure, TIME, Food & Wine, Fodor’s Travel, Outside, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, ROADBOOK, Men’s Health, AFAR, Global Traveler, and more. She has visited all seven continents—paid rent on three—and is a certified yoga instructor and rookie surfer. Although she has plunged into the icy waters of Antarctica, trekked through Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, and swam with sharks in open water, her greatest adventure has been becoming a mom. Follow her on Instagram or get your copy of her children's adventure books here.