Connie McLennan

Author-illustrator Connie McLennan spent years as an advertising illustrator before venturing into the world of children’s picture books. She illustrated 13 books for other authors before writing and illustrating her own. "The Forest in the Trees" is a picture book about the astonishing variety of plants and animals living in the canopies of California's majestic coast redwood forests.

A fine artist as well, Connie now juggles painting with writing and illustrating. She is married with one grown son and lives in northern California. Visit her website at ConnieMcLennan.com