Twelve-year-old author Gabrielle Jones Fields is taking her book to the Smithsonian Institution this weekend, reading from it, and signing copies during a Saturday Mother’s Day-themed event at the National Postal Museum, writes Chris Kaltenbach for The Baltimore Sun.

Gabby, a seventh-grader at Mount Royal Middle School, won last year’s inaugural Amazing Women’s Edition contest, sponsored by Chadds Ford-based National Youth Foundation.

The Foundation “promotes diversity and gender equality in children’s books,” according to co-founder Sophia Hanson.

Students were asked to write and illustrate a book about a local woman they admire. Her book, “My Mom Could Be a Super Hero,” was about her mom, Trinia Jones, a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier in Owings Mills, MD.10

“Whenever I think of a superhero, I think of my mom,” said Gabby. “She works at the post office and she works really long hours. I just really admire that about her.”

For her part, mom said she’s grateful Gabby appreciates how hard she works.

“I was honored that she wrote the book, and that she put me out there in the snow and the rain and the sun. … I’m glad [she] got the message.”

Read more about Gabby Fields here.

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