Visual Thinker
Roxie is the author/illustrator of more than 45 nonfiction, STEM/STEAM, and concept books for children, many using "gamification" to encourage reading, learning, and engagement (including Mazescapes; Amazement Park; the Inside-Outside Books: New York City [New York Times Best Illustrated Award], Washington DC, Texas, London, Paris, and Libraries; Feathers, Flaps & Flops; Doors; Gargoyles, Girders & Glass Houses; Ranch; Wild West Trail Ride Maze; Circus; Mazeways: A to Z; Rodeo; Go!Go!Go!; Inside-Outside Dinosaurs; and the KIWi Storybooks nonfiction series). Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese.
Out in 2023 from Holiday House: A Day & Night in the Desert and Lizards. Out in October 2022: ABCity (Schiffer Kids). Published in 2021: Anteaters, Bats & Boas: The Amazon Rainforest from the Forest Floor to the Treetops (Holiday House). Published 2020: Dive In: Swim with Sea Creatures at their Actual Size (Holiday House).
Recent books: Rodent Rascals (THREE Starred Reviews!). Masterpiece Mix; Market Maze (Kirkus Star); Slithery Snakes; EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures (Starred review in School Library Journal; Smithsonian's Best Science Book for Children); Desert Days, Desert Nights; Hatch! (Outstanding Science Trade Book, NSTA & CBC); Society of International Librarians Honor Award; Bank St College Best Books of 2012,w/Outstanding Merit); Busy Builders (Bank St CCLL Cook Prize Honor for STEM), and series of nine nonfiction giant and fold-out KIWi Storybooks.
Interactive children's book apps: "Roxie's Puzzle Adventure" (16-screen multi-player jigsaw puzzle), "Roxie's a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure" (interactive game app), and the 3-D app, "Roxie's DOORS." Nine educational apps for KIWi (Kids Interactive Walk-in) Storybooks.
Roxie was born in Texas, and grew up in southern Maryland, by the Chesapeake Bay. At the age of six, she won first prize in a county-wide contest for a painting of a bowl of fruit. She has been a working artist all her life, for a while freelancing in Washington DC as a television courtroom artist. It was great training for life drawing, concentration under pressure, and making deadlines. Clients included CBS, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Fourteen of her paintings have been published as covers of The New Yorker magazine.
She also creates oils, watercolors, prints, and drawings, primarily cityscapes, which are exhibited widely in the US in galleries and museums. Roxie's work is in numerous private, public, and corporate collections. From Dec 12, 2020, to April 25, 2021, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, presented a solo exhibition: "Inside-Outside Dinosaurs: Creating a Book with Roxie Munro."
Roxie studied at the University of Maryland, the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore), earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Hawaii, attended graduate school at Ohio University (Athens), and received a Yaddo Fellowship in Painting. She lectures in museums, schools, libraries, conferences, and teaches in workshops.
Many oils and watercolors are views from the roof of her sky-lighted loft studio in Long Island City, New York, just across the East River from her home in mid-Manhattan. Roxie is married to the Swedish writer/photographer, Bo Zaunders ( www.bozaunders.com).
Out in 2023 from Holiday House: A Day & Night in the Desert and Lizards. Out in October 2022: ABCity (Schiffer Kids). Published in 2021: Anteaters, Bats & Boas: The Amazon Rainforest from the Forest Floor to the Treetops (Holiday House). Published 2020: Dive In: Swim with Sea Creatures at their Actual Size (Holiday House).
Recent books: Rodent Rascals (THREE Starred Reviews!). Masterpiece Mix; Market Maze (Kirkus Star); Slithery Snakes; EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures (Starred review in School Library Journal; Smithsonian's Best Science Book for Children); Desert Days, Desert Nights; Hatch! (Outstanding Science Trade Book, NSTA & CBC); Society of International Librarians Honor Award; Bank St College Best Books of 2012,w/Outstanding Merit); Busy Builders (Bank St CCLL Cook Prize Honor for STEM), and series of nine nonfiction giant and fold-out KIWi Storybooks.
Interactive children's book apps: "Roxie's Puzzle Adventure" (16-screen multi-player jigsaw puzzle), "Roxie's a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure" (interactive game app), and the 3-D app, "Roxie's DOORS." Nine educational apps for KIWi (Kids Interactive Walk-in) Storybooks.
Roxie was born in Texas, and grew up in southern Maryland, by the Chesapeake Bay. At the age of six, she won first prize in a county-wide contest for a painting of a bowl of fruit. She has been a working artist all her life, for a while freelancing in Washington DC as a television courtroom artist. It was great training for life drawing, concentration under pressure, and making deadlines. Clients included CBS, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Fourteen of her paintings have been published as covers of The New Yorker magazine.
She also creates oils, watercolors, prints, and drawings, primarily cityscapes, which are exhibited widely in the US in galleries and museums. Roxie's work is in numerous private, public, and corporate collections. From Dec 12, 2020, to April 25, 2021, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA, presented a solo exhibition: "Inside-Outside Dinosaurs: Creating a Book with Roxie Munro."
Roxie studied at the University of Maryland, the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore), earned a BFA in Painting from the University of Hawaii, attended graduate school at Ohio University (Athens), and received a Yaddo Fellowship in Painting. She lectures in museums, schools, libraries, conferences, and teaches in workshops.
Many oils and watercolors are views from the roof of her sky-lighted loft studio in Long Island City, New York, just across the East River from her home in mid-Manhattan. Roxie is married to the Swedish writer/photographer, Bo Zaunders ( www.bozaunders.com).
My blog - info on creating children's books, publishing, apps, gamification, and more.
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Roxie Munro Studio Newsletter: Quarterly info on the studio with lively graphics, free stuff for kids & schools, plus fun facts on the children's book publishing industry & a lot about art.
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Roxie is on the Advisory Board of KidLitTV, the premiere source for all things about children's literature.
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Roxie is a member of the Bank Street Writers Lab.
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Roxie is a Board Member of iNK Think Tank, a invitation-only group of award-winning nonfiction authors who write & illustrate great books, lecture, & do school visits. Click here: http://inkthinktank.org/ink-thinkers |
