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Spring 2017  Newsletter​

Roxie Munro Studio

You're invited to my studio Saturday & Sunday, May 20 & 21, 12 to 6 pm

Hundreds of artists in my and neighboring buildings are opening their working studios to the public for the LIC Arts Open Studios weekend.

Directions: http://www.roxiemunro.com/studio-directions.html

I'll be at TLA in San Antonio April 19-22, with Rocco Staino of SLJ & Julie Gribble of KidLit TV, Booth #2400. Am presenting with Julie on social media/video and signing Market Maze for Holiday House.
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Masterpiece Mix comes out August 1. KidLit TV did a fun livestreaming Cover Reveal with Rocco Staino at the Holiday House offices on March 13...here's the short 5.5-minute video (scroll down a bit): https://www.facebook.com/KidLitTV/?hc_ref=SEARCH&fref=nf

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Ever wonder why where you place a comma matters? Check this out!

Click here: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/15/health/oxford-comma-maine-court-case-trnd/index.html
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Opening Friday, June 23, 7 - 10PM: "The City So Nice They Named it Twice." Group exhibition of NYC paintings at the Simie Maryles Gallery in Provincetown, MA.                            Click here: http://www.simiemaryles.com/RoxieMunro.asp

If you're in Maryland on June 17, visit the 2nd Annual Chesapeake Children's Book Festival at the Talbot County Free Library in charming  Easton on the Eastern Shore  - I'll be there. Info: http://chesapeakechildrensbookfestival.com/index.html
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Imagine a mash-up of Horrible Histories & Pokémon Go & you’ve got Time Traveler Tours​: story-driven interactive treasure hunts to historic places. This month, they launch Buried Alive: The Secret Michelangelo Took to His Grave - ​it takes you to the 16th century in the company of the Renaissance man himself. But you’ll have to download the app to discover his secret!
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Just out! The revised edition of the best-selling classic, Science Experiments You Can Eat, by Vicki Cobb, ex-science teacher and author of 90 award-winning books.

Am on a nonfiction panel Truth is More Painted than Fiction: Graphic Nonfiction for Young Readers, moderated by Susannah Greenberg, June 2, at BEA (Book Expo America) at the Javits Center, 12-12:50PM, Rm 1E16

Six new prints available (S&H included in price) Go to: http://www.roxiemunro.com/prints.html
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Free activities for kids

How to DRAW AN OWL (video)...

KidLit TV's

"Ready Set Draw"

program series

Step-by-step demo & easy instructions on how to draw a Great Horned Owl.

Click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cixb7Qgajc
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Download a free 4-page PosterActivity Guide for Market Maze.

​Click on link: http://www.roxiemunro.com/uploads/5/9/5/6/59560057/marketmaze_activitysheet.pdf

Download FREE Coloring Sheets...

from

EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures
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and Market Maze
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and American deserts.
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Click here for more coloring sheets, including Dinosaurs, and lots of mazes: http://www.roxiemunro.com/mazes-and-coloring-pages.html ​

Step-by-step instructions on How to Make a Geometric Maze
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Click here: http://www.roxiemunro.com/make-a-geometric-maze.html

OCG Studios did all the KIWi Storybooks apps, as well as many other children's book apps, including The Artist Mortimer (more than 155,000 downloads), and  Roxie's a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure, Roxie's Doors, and Roxie's Puzzle Adventure.
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My blog focuses mainly on children's books and publishing (copyright issues, the gamification of nonfiction, making apps, informational vs nonfiction children's books, COPPA, conference coverage, and more). Click link: https://roxiemunro.wordpress.com/​​​

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