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SPRING 2021

Roxie Munro Studio

Above: In-progress art for "Anteaters, Bats & Boas: The Amazon Rainforest from the Forest Floor to the Treetops" [Aug 10, Holiday House]

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, has extended the "Inside-Outside Dinosaurs: Creating a Book with Roxie Munro" Exhibition in the Central Gallery thru May 30, 2021.

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Short animated trailer with sounds, music & colorful pics, click:  DINOS!

Why making paintings, mazes & books makes me so much happier than making money! ;-))) Psychology Today: Intrinsic Motivation

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Too soon to get rid of handwriting say neurosurgeons. Fascinating 1-minute video: Kid's BRAINS

Want to be happy? Like other people. Click here: Optimism

Julie Gribble of KidLit TV and I did a recent program for Reach Out & Read on fun (& educational) free online resources for parents and caretakers...publishers, zoos, even the FBI! Click here:  ONLINE RESOURCES

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Kids LEARN from play! More: ALSC/ALA

Online school visits are proving almost as powerful as in-person visits.  Here're some of the benefits, and obstacles (not specific to online visits): Authors & Students

[I do online visits. Info: Rx School Visits]

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In case you didn't catch it, here's a repeat of KidLit TV's interviews with award-winning authors & illustrators at Bank Street's 2019 BookFest (the last time it was in person!). I speak with Sarah Jacoby, Linda Kukuk, Yvonne Dennis, Jerry Pinkney, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Traci Sorell, Jerry Craft, and Kevin Maillard.

Free activities for kids

Explore KidLit at Home! Drawing & writing activities; Read Alouds & Storytime; videos & short trailers; STEM & STEAM ...scroll thru for rich, beautifully produced short & long programs.

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Click here: AT HOME!

SIX new DIVE IN coloring sheets. Click pdfs below to download these or go to DIVE IN for all 6...

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squirrelfish,frogfish.pdf
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seastar,seahorse.pdf
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6.queen_triggerfish.pdf

My blog focuses on children's books & publishing (copyright issues, nonfiction gamification, making apps, informational vs nonfiction children's books, COPPA, conferences, more). Click here: RX BLOG

My YouTube Channel has more than three dozen videos on publishing, how-tos, kid reviews, book trailers, apps, interviews (at conferences, libraries, schools), KidLit TV Read Alouds & Storymakers: Roxie's YouTube

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