With her picture books, Sayre primarily wrote about animals while also writing about food and the weather.
At the Indiana Authors Awards, Sayre won the Genre Excellence category during 2016.
[3] Pulley "wrote bedtime stories for her pet rock" as a student.
[5] By 2000, April Pulley Sayre completed her post-secondary education at Duke University and Vermont College.
[13] As a fiction writer, Sayre released Noodle Man, The Pasta Superhero in 2002.
[14] For her husband's co-authored book in 2015 titled Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of the Midwest, Sayre helped conducted plant research during the 2010s.
[7] To create her publications, Sayre conducted research before starting the writing process.
[18][10] Her books took a minimum total of one combined year to complete the planning and publication stages.
[21] Sayre released Secrets of Sound: Studying the Calls and Song of Whales, Elephants, and Birds after she used onomatopoeia in multiple publications.
[31][32] Sayre won the Genre Excellence category as part of the Indiana Authors Awards in 2016.