Carter Higgins is the author of many books for young readers, including Everything You Need for a Treehouse, an NPR Best Book of the Year, the chapter book series, Audrey L & Audrey W, and Big and Small and In-Between. Her first book as both author and illustrator, Circle Under Berry, was named a Best Book of 2021 by Publisher’s Weekly, Smithsonian Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. She is also the author and illustrator of Some of These Are Snails and Round and Round the Year We Go.
Carter is a creative storyteller who designs playful experiences around visual literacy and believes the wit of kids’ language is the best poetry of all. She is an Emmy-winning visual effects and motion graphics artist and spent a decade as an elementary school librarian. You can find her on Instagram at @carterhiggins or on Bluesky at @carterhiggins.bsky.social. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.
