Caroline Arnold

Caroline Arnold is an award-winning author of over 170 books for young readers, primarily non-fiction on natural science and animals, with some fiction, and she has also written for television. She grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, majored in art at Grinnell College, earned an M.A. in art from the University of Iowa, and began writing children's books more than thirty years ago when her own children were small. Trained as an artist, she often uses color photos to illustrate her works on topics like living fossils and climate change.