| WINTER 2025 Roxie Munro Studi o Newsletter "Wonderful, fun, clever, delightful, stimulating" says Kirkus! Out Feb 28 from SchifferKids: MAZE PLAY , an interactive game book with outrageous connected page-to-page fantasy mazes & seek-n-find games. Includes After Escher, SteamPunk, Land of the Sweets, Magic Forest, Super Future, Up in the Air, TunnelTown (above), Fairy-Tale Land , more. Preorder from Amazon & others: click MAZEPLAY (scroll down page for stores). KidLit TV trailer premiere in late January! “First, I want to make a really big point of the fact that we have the technology, the science, and the money to save ourselves. It’s not a technology problem; it’s a political problem. ” Tom Athanasio. Click: climate realism & climate justice. The Nation (via Literary Hub ) You're invited! Opening Jan 16, 6-9PM at the Society of Illustrators in NYC: Exhibit of cartoons & covers from The New Yorker , curated by cartoonist Liza Donnelly. Info: SOI One of my covers is blown (above right) up for the entrance/title of show! Love it! " Write what you know is the stupidest thing I've ever heard ," says Ishiguro. From Literary Hub , click: Nobel The bittersweet REAL story of Munro (no relation) Leaf's bull (from The Marginalian ). Click: BULL STORY “A child, alone with his book, creates for himself, somewhere in the secret recesses of the soul, his own pictures which surpass all else. Such pictures are necessary for humanity. On the day that the children’s imagination no longer has the strength to create them, on that day humanity will be poorer. All great things that have happened in the world, happened first of all in someone’s imagination, and the aspect of the world of tomorrow depends largely on the extent of the power of imagination in those who are just now learning to read. This is why children must have books. ” Robert Lewis Stevenson (via Literary Hub ) Happy to announce that I've signed with the How Now Booking agency for SCHOOL VISITS. Check it out: HowNow/Roxie Free activities for kids Solve the maze, find the hidden objects, or color in some fun FREE mazes from MAZE PLAY ! [Click on "Download File" to print out] magic_forest.pdf Download File land_of_the_sweets.pdf Download File fairy-tale_land.pdf Download File Learn to draw a Great Horned Owl or a Random Roxie Reversing Maze or a Toucan ! I show you how with KidLit TV's READY SET DRAW programs. Click here to learn how to draw an Owl: Draw an OWL! Click here to draw a Random Roxie Reversing Maze : Draw a MAZE Click here to draw a Toucan from Anteaters, Bats & Boas : TOUCAN For more KidLit TV READY SET DRAW PROGRAMS , click: FUN! Lots more fun games, coloring sheets, YouTube videos and more at roxiemunro.com World Read Aloud Day is Feb 5 (its 15th birthday). I'm reading to schools in Chicago, New York, New Jersey & Texas. Join the whole world, & 100s of authors, for this event. For info, click WRAD Booking 2025 in-person (& online) AUTHOR SCHOOL VISITS (now registered with Boces Nassau Co, NY, among others). School & library visit programs include new Rainforest, Desert, & Lizards presentations, plus Coral Reefs, Rodent Rascals, Dinosaurs, Mazes, Masterpiece Mix & two very popular programs, Nature & How to Create a Nonfiction Picture Book... Here's the menu: RX School Visits Recent School Visits include Sicomac Elementary School in NJ, and Lakeville Elem, Glen Cove Elem & Landing Elem on Long Island, NY) A new program covers learning about Earth's most important ECOSYSTEMS - their unique and special qualities (& threats from climate change; what we can do). Based on Roxie's recent books about Deserts ( A Day in the Life of the Desert ), Rainforests (Anteaters, Bats & Boas), Coral Reefs ( Dive In ), & nine more ecosystems, including Polar Regions, Wetlands, Tundra, Grasslands, Alpine , others (from EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures) . My blog focuses on children's books & publishing (copyright issues, nonfiction gamification, making apps, informational vs nonfiction children's books, COPPA, conferences, more). Click: RX BLOG My YouTube Channel has almost four dozen videos on publishing, how-tos, kid reviews, book trailers, apps, interviews (at conferences, libraries, schools), KidLitTV Read Alouds & Storymakers: RX YouTube If you'd prefer to NOT receive these quarterly studio newsletters, please unsubscribe below. No hard feelings! Thanks! (Feel free to forward to anyone you think may be interested...) |
WINTER 2025 Roxie Munro
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"Wonderful, fun, clever, delightful, stimulating" says Kirkus! | |
Out Feb 28 from SchifferKids: MAZE PLAY, an interactive game book with outrageous connected page-to-page fantasy mazes & seek-n-find games. Includes After Escher, SteamPunk, Land of the Sweets, Magic Forest, Super Future, Up in the Air, TunnelTown (above), Fairy-Tale Land, more. Preorder from Amazon & others: click MAZEPLAY (scroll down page for stores). | |
“First, I want to make a really big point of the fact that we have the technology, the science, and the money to save ourselves. It’s not a technology problem; it’s a political problem.” Tom Athanasio. Click: climate realism & climate justice. The Nation (via Literary Hub) | |
You're invited! Opening Jan 16, 6-9PM at the Society of Illustrators in NYC: Exhibit of cartoons & covers from The New Yorker, curated by cartoonist Liza Donnelly. Info: SOI One of my covers is blown (above right) up for the entrance/title of show! | |
Love it! "Write what you know is the stupidest thing I've ever heard," says Ishiguro. From Literary Hub, click: Nobel | |
The bittersweet REAL story of Munro (no relation) Leaf's bull (from The Marginalian). Click: BULL STORY | |
“A child, alone with his book, creates for himself, somewhere in the secret recesses of the soul, his own pictures which surpass all else. Such pictures are necessary for humanity. On the day that the children’s imagination no longer has the strength to create them, on that day humanity will be poorer. All great things that have happened in the world, happened first of all in someone’s imagination, and the aspect of the world of tomorrow depends largely on the extent of the power of imagination in those who are just now learning to read. This is why children must have books.” Robert Lewis Stevenson (via Literary Hub) | |
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Happy to announce that I've signed with the How Now Booking agency for SCHOOL VISITS.
Check it out: HowNow/Roxie
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Solve the maze, find the hidden objects, or color in some fun FREE mazes from MAZE PLAY!
[Click on "Download File" to print out]
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Learn to draw a Great Horned Owl or a Random Roxie Reversing Maze or a Toucan!
I show you how with KidLit TV's READY SET DRAW programs.
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Click here to draw a Random Roxie Reversing Maze: Draw a MAZE | |
Click here to draw a Toucan from Anteaters, Bats & Boas: TOUCAN | |
For more KidLit TV READY SET DRAW PROGRAMS, click: FUN!
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Lots more fun games, coloring sheets, YouTube videos and more at roxiemunro.com
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World Read Aloud Day is Feb 5 (its 15th birthday). I'm reading to schools in Chicago, New York, New Jersey & Texas. Join the whole world, & 100s of authors, for this event. For info, click WRAD | |
Booking 2025 in-person (& online) AUTHOR SCHOOL VISITS (now registered with Boces Nassau Co, NY, among others). School & library visit programs include new Rainforest, Desert, & Lizards presentations, plus Coral Reefs, Rodent Rascals, Dinosaurs, Mazes, Masterpiece Mix & two very popular programs, Nature & How to Create a Nonfiction Picture Book...Here's the menu: RX School Visits | |
Recent School Visits include Sicomac Elementary School in NJ, and Lakeville Elem, Glen Cove Elem & Landing Elem on Long Island, NY) | |
A new program covers learning about Earth's most important ECOSYSTEMS - their unique and special qualities (& threats from climate change; what we can do). Based on Roxie's recent books about Deserts (A Day in the Life of the Desert), Rainforests (Anteaters, Bats & Boas), Coral Reefs (Dive In), & nine more ecosystems, including Polar Regions, Wetlands, Tundra, Grasslands, Alpine, others (from EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures). | |
My blog focuses on children's books & publishing (copyright issues, nonfiction gamification, making apps, informational vs nonfiction children's books, COPPA, conferences, more). Click: RX BLOG | |
My YouTube Channel has almost four dozen videos on publishing, how-tos, kid reviews, book trailers, apps, interviews (at conferences, libraries, schools), KidLitTV Read Alouds & Storymakers: RX YouTube | |
If you'd prefer to NOT receive these quarterly studio newsletters, please unsubscribe below. No hard feelings! | |
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Thanks! (Feel free to forward to anyone you think may be interested...) | |
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