Visual Thinker
Roxie is the author/illustrator of more than 40 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 April 7, 2020: Dive In: Swim with Sea Creatures at their Actual Size, published by Holiday House.
Recent books: Rodent Rascals, Holiday House (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, with Outstanding Merit); Busy Builders (Bank Street CCLL Cook Prize Honor for STEM), and series of nine nonfiction giant and fold-out KIWi Jr. 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, will host 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 April 7, 2020: Dive In: Swim with Sea Creatures at their Actual Size, published by Holiday House.
Recent books: Rodent Rascals, Holiday House (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, with Outstanding Merit); Busy Builders (Bank Street CCLL Cook Prize Honor for STEM), and series of nine nonfiction giant and fold-out KIWi Jr. 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, will host 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 is a member of iNK Think Tank, a invitation-only group of award-winning nonfiction authors who write and illustrate great books, lecture, and do school visits. Click here: http://inkthinktank.org/ink-thinkers |
