Carolyn Leiloglou

Carolyn Leiloglou

award-winning children's author

Carolyn Leiloglou (lay-LAW-glue) is the author of the middle grade fantasy series The Restorationists, which begins with Beneath the Swirling Sky. She also wrote the WILLA Award Finalist picture book Library’s Most Wanted.

Carolyn is the granddaughter of art collectors, daughter of an art teacher, and homeschooling mom to four wildly creative kids. She’s an award-winning author whose poems and short stories have appeared in children’s magazines around the world including Highlight, Ladybug, Clubhouse Jr. and The School Magazines in Australia. Carolyn also reviews her favorite children’s books on her platform, House full of Bookworms.

Carolyn’s writing has appeared on The Rabbit Room, Story Warren, and Simple Homeschool. She’s been a guest on multiple podcasts including Read-Aloud Revival, Homeschool Compass, Believe to See, The Habit, and Fantastical Truth.

Awards

2023 Good Book Mom Book of the Year Finalist in the Fiction and Reader’s Choice Categories

2021 WILLA Award Finalist in Children’s Fiction and Non-Fiction for the picture book Library’s Most Wanted

2018 Katherine Paterson Prize Finalist for the picture book manuscript “Ruler of the Craft Table”