Caroline Arnold Art and Books: December 2025

Monday, December 1, 2025

ANIMAL PRINTS ON SALE AT MY ETSY SITE--25% Off!

Animal prints at my Etsy site are now on sale--25% off! Suitable for framing. Prints make great holiday gifts! Pandas, penguins, polar bears, a platypus and more! Get them while they last!

These are art quality prints of my cut paper illustrations for my books.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/CarolineArnoldArt

SETTLEMENT HOUSE GIRL: Books Make Perfect Gifts for the Holidays!

Exactly two years ago today, on Dec 1, 2023, I published my memoir SETTLEMENT HOUSE GIRL: Growing Up in the 1950s at North East Neighborhood House, Minneapolis, Minnesota, which chronicles my childhood years growing up in the settlement house my father directed and explores the roots of the person I am today.

It imakes a great gift to give during the holidays to friends and family. You can order it on Amazon or you can go to your favorite bookstore, give them the ISBN number ( ISBN 9798864 903285 ) and they can order it for you. And, if you haven’t yet read SETTLEMENT HOUSE GIRL I encourage you to read it now.

Happy Reading and Happy Holidays!

"The book captures life in colorful anecdotes, and Arnold draws the intriguing settlement house residents with a loving hand. ... Endnotes provide even more personal insight, all resulting in an enjoyable encapsulation of one family's experiences as the settlement facility transitioned into modernity." BlueInk Review (March 2024)

"Settlement House Girl is a look back at Northeast Minneapolis in the 1950s. Arnold has authored books for children and she writes in a clear, straightforward manner. If you're a collector of Northeast history books, it's a good one to put on your bookshelf." Cynthia Sowden, Northeaster Newspaper, April 3, 2024

"Settlement House Girl is engaging, tracing Arnold's growth from a young girl to an adult journeying into being a writer in her later life, but it's also a valuable contribution to the social history of 20th-century America...The detailed accounts of Arnold's experiences provide a unique glimpse into the fabric of community life during this era, highlighting the interactions and shared experiences that defined the settlement house environment." BookLife (Publishers Weekly) June 7, 2024

More about the book is at my website, www.carolinearnold.com/settlementhousegirl.html

Looking for a good book?

Consider downloading one of my E-BOOKS from the internet to read on your computer or other device.
Many of my CURRENT BOOKS are available as e-books from your library, Amazon, and other e-book platforms. Dozens of my OUT-OF-PRINT books are getting a new life as e-books. The books have been redesigned with a contemporary look for today's readers. They are available on Amazon as Kindle books and in some cases for Nooks and I-Readers. For a complete list of all my e-books, go to the E-Books page at my website.

MORE THAN 170 BOOKS

I have been writing for children since 1980 and am the author of more than 170 books, both fiction and nonfiction. I am also an illustrator. My newest titles include my memoir (for adults) Settlement House Girl, My Friend from Outer Space, Keeper of the Light: Juliet Fish Nichols Fights the San Francisco Fog, Planting a Garden in Room 6, Butterflies in Room 6, Hatching Chicks in Room 6, Living Fossils, Clues to the Past and four books in the Caroline Arnold's Habitats series: A Day and Night in the Rain Forest, Desert, Prairie, and Forest. Other recent titles include Too Hot? Too Cold? Keeping Body Temperature Just Right and A Warmer World: From Polar Bears to Butterflies, How Climate Change Affects Wildlife, A Polar Bear’s World, illustrated with my own cut paper art, now republished as a board book, Wiggle and Waggle, five stories about two hardworking worms, and The Terrible Hodag and the Animal Catchers, a tall tale which won the Parents’ Choice Gold Award are two of my fiction books. In 2008 I received the California Readers Leo Politi Award for my body of work. For more about my books, go to www.carolinearnold.com. I received a B.A. from Grinnell College in Iowa, and an M.A. in Art from the University of Iowa. I live in Los Angeles and Oakland, CA. I love to visit schools and libraries to talk about my books and the writing and illustrating process. Click here to learn more about my school visit programs.