| SUMMER 2024 Roxie Munro Studio Newsletter The above oil painting is one of four in my new series called "City Streets," being exhibited this summer at the Simie Maryles Gallery in Provincetown, MA. I will be the featured artist August 2 - 9. At least 2 dozen oils will be on display. More info: https://simiemaryles.com/artist/roxie-munro Teachers! Librarians! Educators! Wednesday, July 24, 3:45-4:45PM EDT, I am moderating a Share My Lesson "Summer of Learning" webinar called UNLOCK THE JOY OF READING - Harness the Power of Videos, Crafts, and Activities , about the fabulous varied resources that KidLit TV offers. It's a program of the AFT (American Federation of Teachers). Author Lesa Cline-Ransome will be the special featured guest. It's FREE! Register at INFO or click image above. Share My Lesson webinars are available for one-hour of Professional Development credit. A certificate of completion will be available for download at the end of your session that you can submit for your school's or district's approval. Credit: artist Joanna Maciejewska. So interesting! The daily routines of great writers... from Marginalian click: HABITS I've always loved this Flaubert comment: " Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. " And you'll notice - none of these writers say 'Wait until you're 'inspired.' " They just sit down, usually at the same time each day, and work. Beyond thrilled to announce that KidLit TV , with the wonderful hard-working, brave, super creative Founder Julie Gribble , is receiving the Bridge Award at the CARLE HONORS GALA on Sept 26 at the New-York Historical Society!!! I'm on the KLTV Advisory Board, so will be there to celebrate with Julie and the team - can't wait!!! Click here for Carle announcement & more info: CARLE HONOR!!! "The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing ." Comments by Adam Moss, others on the "stubbornness of creative work." Click: INVENTIVE And, excited to say I have a painting (upper right, plus quote above left), based on one of my New Yorker covers, in "Scenes of New York City" in the new Hirschfeld Gallery & Hall at the New-York Historical Society. From June 28 - Oct 27. Info: NYC Show. It'll be up during the Carle Honors !! A couple other upcoming fall events I'm appearing & signing at ... Sept 28: Chappaqua Children's Book Festival Nov 2: Bank Street BookFest (Illustration Panel Moderator) Free SUMMER activities for kids Below are samples - FREE downloadable coloring pages & finding games from lots of my books. Go to www.roxiemunro.com & scroll left side menu for various books (4 lizards, 3 rodents, 6 rainforest critters, 6 coral reef fish, 3 deserts, 4 dinos, 26 ABCs ...) From LIZARDS AT LARGE - 4 lizards to color tokay_gecko.pdf Download File From A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE DESERT - 3 USA deserts (coloring & finding game) sonoran_copy.pdf Download File From INSIDE-OUTSIDE DINOSAURS (4 dinos) stego.jpg Download File ANTEATERS, BATS & BOAS. 6 pages to color amazon_jungle.pdf Download File Alphabet letters from ABCity - color your name or maybe just your initials! Go to webpage ABCity for ALL 26. Watch short video trailer above or click: ABCity Trailer b.pdf Download File Now booking in-person (& online) 2024-25 Author Visits (am registered with Nassau NY BOCES) Author Visits at schools & libraries include the very popular Nature Program , with a huge variety of fascinating critters, and How to Create a Nonfiction Picture Book, from getting ideas, to critical thinking, research, storyboards, roughs, final art, text (and working with editors) to cover treatments. Also have new Rainforest, Lizards & Deserts programs, plus Coral Reefs, Rodent Rascals, Dinosaurs, Mazes, Masterpiece Mix, and more, including demo and hands-on workshops on How to Draw a Toucan, or an Owl , or do a Roxie Random Reversing Maze . And for artists and older children: Using eight kinds of perspective to Create Space in your drawings. Recent '24 Author Visits include Lakeville Elem (NY) & four NJ schools. A new program covers learning about some of Earth's most important ECOSYSTEMS - their unique and special qualities (& threats from climate change; what we can do about it). 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 , and others from EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures . For a complete menu and more info, go to SCHOOL VISITS on Roxie's website. 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 more than three 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...) |
SUMMER
2024
Roxie Munro
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The above oil painting is one of four in my new series called "City Streets," being exhibited this summer at the Simie Maryles Gallery in Provincetown, MA. I will be the featured artist August 2 - 9. At least 2 dozen oils will be on display. More info: https://simiemaryles.com/artist/roxie-munro | |
Teachers! Librarians! Educators! | |
It's FREE! Register at INFO or click image above. Share My Lesson webinars are available for one-hour of Professional Development credit. A certificate of completion will be available for download at the end of your session that you can submit for your school's or district's approval. | |
Credit: artist Joanna Maciejewska. | |
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So interesting! The daily routines of great writers...from Marginalian
click: HABITS
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I've always loved this Flaubert comment: "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." | |
And you'll notice - none of these writers say 'Wait until you're 'inspired.' " They just sit down, usually at the same time each day, and work. | |
Beyond thrilled to announce that KidLit TV, with the wonderful hard-working, brave, super creative Founder Julie Gribble, is receiving the Bridge Award at the CARLE HONORS GALA on Sept 26 at the New-York Historical Society!!! I'm on the KLTV Advisory Board, so will be there to celebrate with Julie and the team - can't wait!!! Click here for Carle announcement & more info: CARLE HONOR!!!
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"The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing." Comments by Adam Moss, others on the "stubbornness of creative work." Click: INVENTIVE | |
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And, excited to say I have a painting (upper right, plus quote above left), based on one of my New Yorker covers, in "Scenes of New York City" in the new Hirschfeld Gallery & Hall at the New-York Historical Society. | |
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From June 28 - Oct 27. Info: NYC Show. It'll be up during the Carle Honors!!
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A couple other upcoming fall events I'm appearing & signing at ...
Sept 28: Chappaqua Children's Book Festival
Nov 2: Bank Street BookFest (Illustration Panel Moderator)
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Free SUMMER activities for kids
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Below are samples - FREE downloadable coloring pages & finding games from lots of my books. Go to www.roxiemunro.com & scroll left side menu for various books (4 lizards, 3 rodents, 6 rainforest critters, 6 coral reef fish, 3 deserts, 4 dinos, 26 ABCs ...)
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From LIZARDS AT LARGE - 4 lizards to color
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From A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE DESERT - 3 USA deserts (coloring & finding game)
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From INSIDE-OUTSIDE DINOSAURS (4 dinos)
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ANTEATERS, BATS & BOAS. 6 pages to color
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Alphabet letters from ABCity - color your name or maybe just your initials!
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Go to webpage ABCity for ALL 26.
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Now booking in-person (& online) 2024-25 Author Visits (am registered with Nassau NY BOCES) | |
Author Visits at schools & libraries include the very popular Nature Program, with a huge variety of fascinating critters, and How to Create a Nonfiction Picture Book, from getting ideas, to critical thinking, research, storyboards, roughs, final art, text (and working with editors) to cover treatments. Also have new Rainforest, Lizards & Deserts programs, plus Coral Reefs, Rodent Rascals, Dinosaurs, Mazes, Masterpiece Mix, and more, including demo and hands-on workshops on How to Draw a Toucan, or an Owl, or do a Roxie Random Reversing Maze. And for artists and older children: Using eight kinds of perspective to Create Space in your drawings. | |
Recent '24 Author Visits include Lakeville Elem (NY) & four NJ schools. | |
A new program covers learning about some of Earth's most important ECOSYSTEMS - their unique and special qualities (& threats from climate change; what we can do about it). 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, and others from EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures. | |
For a complete menu and more info, go to SCHOOL VISITS on Roxie's website. | |
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 more than three 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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