Carrie Tillotson is an award-winning children’s picture book author. Her newest title, Pee Rex (Candlewick/MIT Kids Press) arrives in Fall 2027. Her previous books, Counting to Bananas, B Is for Bananas, and Alpacas Here, Alpacas There have received starred reviews, appeared on state lists, earned distinctions such as Bank Street College of Education’s Best Books of the Year and Amazon Best Books of the Year, and won awards, including the 2023 Good Housekeeping Kids’ Book Award and SCBWI Crystal Kite Honor Award. As a child, Carrie loved to read, paint, and draw, and thought books were written by long-dead people. She later met a real-live author and realized she could be an author one day, too.
After getting a master’s degree in public health, Carrie worked as a biostatistician for more than ten years and now sculpts her interests in science into playful picture books. When not reading and writing, you can find her running, drawing, painting, and eating ice cream (though usually not all at the same time). She lives in Oregon with her husband, son, and two dogs who are always going bananas. Subscribe to her newsletter, visit her at CarrieTillotson.com, or follow her on Instagram for all the latest book buzz.
