All images ©2011 Carrie Hartman. No image in whole, or part, may be reproduced in any media. To do so violates Federal copyright law.



graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design with her degree in Illustration. Her illustration work includes: editorial, children’s books and book illustration, character development, advertising, posters, greeting cards, comic books, stationary, and animation projects.  She is a member of the design faculty at MCAD, teaching in the illustration department.


Carrie has received several illustration awards from the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators, the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) award for the best illustrated children˙s book and recognition from the Educational Press Association.


Carrie is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and the Children’s Literature Network.

Carrie lives in Woodbury, a suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul, in the lovely state of Minnesota.  She loves her husband, her offspring, (two girls and a boy),  Dots Candy, coffee, (lots of coffee) and her new naughty puppy, she got from the shelter.