I’m an author and illustrator of picture books about nature including Fabulous Fishes, Bring On the Birds and my newest release, Stripes of All Types.  My artwork is also featured on products including Susan Stockdale's Toucan Puzzle and Susan Stockdale's Birds Coloring Book.

 

My books have won awards from the American Library Association, Parents’ Choice, the National Science Teachers Association, and Bank Street College of Education. This Voice of America video shows how I create them.

 

I'm currently working on my next book, Spectacular Spots, which will be published in 2015. It’s a joy for me to share my passion for nature through my books, artwork and presentations! 

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What's New...

 

Stripes of All Types has just been printed as a bilingual Spanish/English book! 

 

It won a Parents' Choice Silver Honor Award and a

California Reading Association Eureka! Nonfiction Gold Award. It has also been

selected as a NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children and a

Charlotte Zolotow Award Committee Highly Commended Book.

 

I'm thrilled that Stripes of All Types is Pennsylvania's One Book, Every Young Child

selection for 2014. I look forward to making 52 presentations throughout the state this

spring as an ambassador for this wonderful early childhood literacy program. 

 

 

 

 

“If the paintings are the feast, Stockdale’s words are the dessert.”
The Washington Post