Laurie Lawlor is a prolific and celebrated author of children\'s books.
She lives and teaches in the Chicago metropolitan area..
Her Super Women: Six Scientists Who Changed the World was named a NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book.
Her picture book biography Rachel Carson and her Book That Changed the World was named a Bank Street Best Children\'s Book of the Year and a National Science Teachers Association Outstanding Science Trade Book and received the John Burroughs Riverby Award.
Laurie Lawlor is a prolific and celebrated author of children\'s books