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My Family Four Floors Up
My Family Four Floors Up

This friendly, rhyming story follows a child and her father–as well as their cute pets, a puppy and a.

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Blue Corn Soup
Blue Corn Soup

As snow begins to fall in the canyon, Mouse knows just what will keep her warm–blue corn soup. As.

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Halloween Moon
Halloween Moon

In this cumulative tale, a host of Halloween spooks, including a cat, a witch, and a ghoul, are drawn.

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Cats Night Out
Cats Night Out

From two cats waltzing to twenty cats in a conga line, dancing felines take to the streets, the fire.

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Pirate Pup
Pirate Pup

Welcome to the world of Pirate Pup and his canine crew as they set off on their good ship.

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Mama Loves You
Mama Loves You

An expression of love from mother to child is shown through rhyming text and charming illustrations of animals. I.

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Night Train
Night Train

A majestic, streamlined locomotive sweeps into the pages of this striking picture book and a little boy climbs aboard.

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Cowpokes
Cowpokes

Painted mountains at daybreak. Rising slowly, cowpokes wake. They don their boots and hats and chaps, down their flapjacks,.

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Star Comes Home
Star Comes Home

A true story about a Shetland Pony.Star belonged first to a young girl named Sally. When she couldn’t care.

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On the River ABC
On the River ABC

As an ant floats along on her unexpected journey downstream, she encounters the wildlife that inhabit the River ABC..

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Prairie Primer: A to Z
Prairie Primer: A to Z

A rhythmic alphabet book captures the flavor and feeling of the early American midwest with scenes from a year.

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Mountain Meadow 123
Mountain Meadow 123

Western mountain animals and their habitats help teach youngsters how to count to ten and back. Book Details: Age.

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On Writing...

When I speak about writing to children during school visits, I often remind them that they are the world's greatest experts about their own lives. It makes sense to write about what we know. If we chose to write about what matters most to us, the memories that make us giggle, gasp, shiver, laugh, and cry, we are likely to do our best work. And a little daydreaming along the way doesn't hurt.

Hi, I'm Caroline Stutson. I write picture books for children. Most of them are in verse, something I was told to never do when I was getting started. Actually, I give that same advice to other beginning writers: DON'T WRITE IN VERSE UNLESS YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF. If you can write your story in prose, do that first. Verse seems like fun but it can be challenging to make it work.

   I write in verse because I have Rhyming Disease . It's not catching, but it is very difficult to cure. I rhyme when I'm awake and pretty much every night when I'm asleep. You can tell that you have rhyming disease when you sit up in bed with really bad rhymes running through your head, verse you've been dreaming.

Right now, I'm trying INCREDIBLY HARD not to rhyme. Instead, I'm inviting you to hang out with me on my brand new website. Thanks for dropping by. Here's a poem of mine that was published in SPIDER that seems to fit my clothesline theme:

"My Grandma Hangs the Wash Up High"
My grandma hangs the wash up high
A line of fishes wiggling dry
With floppy tails
And clothespin fins
I
Help her reel
Those
Sky Fish
In.

Verse Published In Children's Magazines

Boys' Quest

Children's Playmate

Highlights for Children

Hopscotch for Girls

On the Line

Spider The Magazine for Children

Turtle Magazine for Preschool Kids

Professional Memberships

Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

Colorado Authors' League

Pikes Peak Writers

Authors' Guild