Meet Dr. John

Dr. John S. Hutton is a pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, author, and owner of the award-winning blue manatee children’s bookstore and decafé and affiliate e-commerce site, blue manatee boxes.  He lives with his wife and 3 children in the suburban wilderness, where they are fond of planting things and gawking at butterflies, toads, and birds.  As a child, he was known to play in his backyard for hours amidst mud, fireflies, and other analog kids (see archival photo below).   As a grownup, Dr. John’s major clinical and advocacy interests are the effects of electronic media on young children, and reading and play as healthy alternatives.

More recently (and less muddy), with manatee spying behind:

For digital grownups: a nifty interview describing Dr. John’s inspiration for the Baby Unplugged books and their mission, via the Tell Me A Story project from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

You can read about the evolution of the Baby Unplugged initiative and the science behind it in this 2013 article in Clinical Pediatrics.

Dr. John speaks regularly to medical, educator, and parent groups, and has been a guest blogger/commentator in multiple venues.  To inquire about appearances or interviews, send queries to press[at]bluemanateebooks.com.