ABOUT CARRIE PEARSON

  • Co-Regional Advisor, SCBWI-Michigan. Author of two forthcoming nonfiction picture books (2020 and 2021) and narrative nonfiction picture book STRETCH TO THE SUN: FROM A TINY SPROUT TO THE TALLEST TREE ON EARTH (Charlesbridge 2018), and informational fiction picture books A WARM WINTER TAIL and A COOL SUMMER TAIL (Arbordale).  Recipient of an SCBWI Work of Outstanding Promise (WOOP) grant in 2013. Grand Prize Winner, SCBWI-MI Picture Book Mentorship Competition 2007 with Newbery Award author Lynne Rae Perkins.Author of WHEN CUBA CAME TO MARQUETTE (Michigan History Magazine, Sept/Oct. 2010).  BA early childhood education, University of Michigan. Founder and consultant, Children’s Book Connections. Former teacher then director of university-owned early childhood center, business development director for an international corporate finance company, associate director of development for University of Rochester Medical Center, and development officer for Marquette General Health Systems.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

  • Children’s book author, former early ed teacher, author visitor and speaker, SCBWI RA, finder of amazing stories and the best words to tell them.

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PUBLICATIONS - View in Bookstore

  • Magazine Articles
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    When Cuba Came to Marquette


    Michigan History Magazine

    2010