Suzanne Slade is the Sibert Honor author of more than 180 books for children. A mechanical engineer by degree, Suzanne often writes about STEM topics, as well as fascinating figures in history. Visit her on her website.

SHINING STAR: VERA RUBIN DISCOVERS DARK MATTER

BEHOLD THE OCTOPUS!

DAZZLIN' DOLLY: THE SONGWRITING, HIT-SINGING, GUITAR-PICKING DOLLY PARTON.

THE UNIVERSE AND YOU

*Kirkus STARRED review

MARS IS: STARK SLOPE, SILVERY SNOW, AND STARTLING SURPRISES

*Booklist STARRED review

JUNE ALMEIDA, VIRUS DETECTIVE! THE WOMAN WHO DISCOVERED THE FIRST HUMAN CORONAVIRUS

SWISH! THE SLAM-DUNKING, ALLEY-OOPING, HIGH-FLYING HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS

*Junior Library Guild Selection

EXQUISITE: THE POETRY AND LIFE OF GWENDOLYN BROOKS

*Robert F. Sibert Honor Book

*Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book

A COMPUTER CALLED KATHERINE:

HOW KATHERINE JOHNSON HELPED PUT AMERICA ON THE NOON

*Kirkus STARRED review

DARING DOZEN: THE TWELVE WHO WALKED ON THE MOON

*Booklist STARRED review

COUNTDOWN: 2979 DAYS TO THE MOON

*School Library Journal STARRED review

*Publishers Weekly STARRED review

*Booklist STARRED review

*2019 Outstanding Science Trade Books

*2019 NSTA Best STEM Books list

*Junior Library Guild Selection

ASTRONAUT ANNIE

*Story Time From Space selection (read by astronaut on the Space Station)

*PBS Books "Best Children's Picture Books of 2018"

*Brightly's Best Children's Books

DANGEROUS JANE

*2018 Bank Street College of Educ. Best Books of the Year (STARRED Ages 5-9)

*2018 CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People

*The Washington Post "Books to Help Build Strong Girls"

OUT OF SCHOOL AND INTO NATURE: THE ANNA COMSTOCK STORY

*Kirkus Starred Review

*2018 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book

*2018 Amelia Bloomer Recommended List

*2018 Green Earth Book Award Honor Winner

*2017 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA)

*2017 California Reading Assoc. Eureka! Silver Award

THE MUSIC IN GEORGE'S HEAD: GEORGE GERSHWIN CREATES RHAPSODY IN BLUE

*Four Starred Reviews (Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers' Weekly, School Library Journal

*Junior Library Guild Selection

*California Reading Assoc. Eureka! Gold Award

As a professional artist, Carol has worked with a wide variety of clients and her illustrations have been published in magazines, newspapers, advertising, and books for children. Her artwork has appeared in over 50 picture books.

In 1991, she illustrated the children's book, Sea Squares, by Joy Hulme that was selected as an Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teachers Association and the Children’s Book Council. It was also a Children’s Choice for 1992 and selected for the Original Art exhibition at the Society of Illustrators for 1992. It was followed by over fifty other titles, including The Maiden of Northland by Aaron Shepard, an Aesop Accolade List book, Thinking about Ants by Barbara Brenner, an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children, and a six book “Hide and Seek Science” series for Scholastic. Her work has been selected for exhibition at The Society of Illustrators in New York and many times by The Illustrator’s Club of Washington DC. The EdPress Association of America has also honored her. Carol’s work is included in the Society of Illustrators permanent collection from the exhibition, Outstanding Female Illustrators of the Past One Hundred Years.

Carol currently teaches illustration at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and is also working towards her Masters of Fine Arts in Illustration at the University of Hartford's Hartford Art School Low Residency MFA program. She has visited hundreds of elementary schools and libraries, speaking to students about her work and artistic processes. She also makes presentations at conferences and colleges such as Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Frostburg State University, the Kansas City Art Institute, the Corcoran School of Art and the Cincinnati Art Museum.

As a child growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, she dreamed of becoming an artist. Her mother enrolled her in art classes at a young age. Carol attended the Kansas City Art Institute and the Rhode Island School of Design. For many years she lived with her husband and two children in the Washington, DC area. Life took her on to Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and now Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she continues to combine her love of nature and animals in her book illustrations for children.

She is fortunate to have two passions, teaching and illustrating, both providing valuable experiences of inspiration and satisfaction.