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It's Earth Day
This is a short, short, blog, because I am departing for China today. So I’ll fly over the North Pole and find out for myself what the other side of our beautiful planet is like. In the meantime, do...
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I know that summer vacation is here, or nearly here, but I suspect many teachers are planning their fall curriculum. So here are a couple of useful gifts.If you click on the section of my web site...
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What's So Bad About an Oil Spill?
When I wrote my book WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT GASOLINE? I didn’t go into the dangers of oil spills. I wanted to focus on the immediate subject, which was how petroleum particulates from burning gasoline and...
View ArticleBlogging Outside the Box
In November I kept busy being the guest blogger on the Got Story symposium organized by Joy Chu, art director, graphic designer, and teacher of children’s book illustration at USC at San Diego. The...
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Christmas 2010
This year has been “the best of times and the worst of times.” It’s been a year of financial problems for me and too many other people. It’s been my year of discouraging health problems, too. As if...
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Where Do I Find Cerulean Blue?
When I'm doing artwork, there's an order inside my head, but it would be hard for me to tell anyone else what it is. I'm an assistant's nightmare.Here's a shot of my table while working on the book At...
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Gasoline Book Giveaway!
I’m only one of many people worried about rapid climate change, and am always open to reading and listening to responsible comments and information on the subject. I came across the Green Philly blog,...
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Apples and Pumpkins Redux
Apples and Pumpkins, the first book I collaborated on with my daughter Lizzy Rockwell back in 1989, has a beautiful new cover! So I asked Lizzy to guest-blog about it, and to share some of her test...
View ArticleAt the Kerlan
The Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota is one of the most extensive collections of art and manuscripts for children’s books in the world. Students and professionals in children’s...
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Shamrocks in Our Schools
As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, I can’t help thinking about the book my daughter Lizzy and I did (ST. PATRICK’S DAY, by Anne Rockwell, illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell, Harper/Collins 2010). I’m a bit...
View ArticleTo E or Not to E?
That is the question.Or is it?The amount of chatter coming from publishers, authors, illustrators, agents, has risen to tornado force on the subject of e-books versus print books. Some of the issues...
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What Is It About Trucks?
My first book about trucks (TRUCKS) was published in hardbound by Dutton in 1984, in paperback by Penguin/Puffin in 1992. Now I’m hoping it will hang on in yet another form. For children love this...
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Kindlin' Wood, Kindlin' Wood
I’m assuming that amazon.com chose the name of its e-book division and devices for reading same from the bits of dry wood you need to start a fire, or even from the song I remember from my childhood....
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Gallery Show
Read about my upcoming gallery show and visit if you can.For the month of September 2012, a one-woman retrospective of illustrations, paintings and needlepoint by renowned artist and longtime Greenwich...
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Anne Rockwell Talks with Don Tate
ANNE: Don, I'm very interested in your thoughts about being an illustrator who switches roles in your new book IT JES' HAPPENED, illustrated by Gregory Christie, Lee and Low Books, 2012. Not many...
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Anybody Hungry?
It’s almost time for the publication of TRUCK STOP, written by me and illustrated deliciously by Melissa Iwai. It’s our first book together, and it’s also been a long time since I’ve been the author of...
View ArticleTRUCK STOP is about to be born!
May 16 is the big day, but in the meanwhile Melissa Iwai and I are busy getting ready. She has created some TRUCK STOP activity sheets that are downloadable on her website. Have fun!
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Happy Breakfast to All
My new picture book TRUCK STOP is a story about friendship, family and work done in a community. It's for the youngest of my readers, also the first title that I have dedicated to three-year-old...
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Give Us Some Rag!
Do you know where the syncopated rhythms of ragtime come from? I’ll bet you don’t. Do you also know how the Charleston dance step came to be an integral part of American culture? Well, I do. And if...
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Come One, Come All
I love to do research and while researching HEY. CHARLESTON! found an old video of the Jenkins Orphanage Band. It's a fuzzy, low-contrast film but it gives you an idea of the way this new jazz...
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