Exclamation Mark by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

I called it 'Everything I Know About Pirates'. It was enough to fill a book, so that's what I did. I sat down at my drawing board to draw a few pirates and ended up creating 20 pages of silly pictures and nonsense about pirates. It happened like this: “Back in 1995 I got a letter from my nephew Adam, who LOVED pirates, asking me to draw him a picture of a pirate.

His venture into children's books was a happy accident. He attended University of Wisconsin at Madison. He also remembers spending hours staring at the illustrations in National Geographic and thinking how wonderful it would be to be one of the people who got to make all those incredible pictures. His earliest childhood memory is of sitting in the kitchen, drawing pictures of ships and trucks on a blackboard. Tom Lichtenheld was born Jin Nixon, Illinois. Learn more about Amy Krouse Rosenthal at Meet the Illustrator Detroit: Gale, 2013.Biography in Context. 'Amy Krouse Rosenthal.' Contemporary Authors Online. She lives with her husband Jason and her children-Paris, 17, Miles, 19 & Justin, 21-on a tree-lined street in Lakeview, outside of Chicago. Rosenthal is also a contributor to the TED conference and a regular on NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Her three favorite things in the world are a) her family, b) potato chips and c) ideas. She identifies as an OK Ping-Pong player and admits she needs coffee to write. Rosenthal is a person who likes to make things these are some of the things she likes to make: Children's books. She attended high school in Lake Forest and graduated from Tufts University in 1987, after a semester abroad at the University of Paris, Sorbonne in her junior year. Amy Krouse Rosenthal was born Apand raised in Chicago, Illinois.

Exclamation Mark by Amy Krouse Rosenthal