C. Rowen MacCarald

C. Rowen MacCarald is the author of over forty nonfiction books for the educational market, including Cows Don’t Live in Trees! (Rourke Educational Media, 2020) and Eleanor Roosevelt: Progressive Reformer (Momentum, 2018). They co-lead the Ithaca Shop Talk for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Along with their daughter and a small herd of cats, they live in an off-grid house nestled in the forests of central New York.

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Line drawing of the Barn at Boyds Mills

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