For biography/story, click here: ABOUT ROXIE
For book list, galleries, art collectors, teaching, education, conference appearances, etc, see below.
For book list, galleries, art collectors, teaching, education, conference appearances, etc, see below.
Books/apps written and/or illustrated by Roxie Munro:
Lizards at Large: 21 Remarkable Reptiles at Their Actual Size (Holiday House, NY, NY; 2023)
A Day in the Life of the Desert (Books for a Better Earth Collection, Holiday House, NY, NY;2023)
ABCity (SchifferKids, Atglen, PA, 2022)
Anteaters, Bats & Boas: The Amazon Rainforest from the Forest Floor to the Treetops (Holiday House, NY, NY, 2021)
Dive In: Swim with Sea Creatures at Their Actual Size (Holiday House, NY, NY, 2020)
Rodent Rascals (Holiday House, NY, NY, 2018)
30 Animals That Share Our World (Contributor; edited by Jean Reynolds; Sea Grass, an imprint of Quarto; 2018)
Masterpiece Mix (Holiday House, NY, NY; 2017)
30 People Who Changed the World (Contributor; edited by Jean Reynolds; Sea Grass, an imprint of Quarto; 2017)
Market Maze (Holiday House, NY, NY; 2015)
Ocean, Space, Ecosystems, Maze-O-Politan, Fire Safety, Castle, Old West, Dinosaurs, and TV Station series (KIWiStorybooks, Great Falls, MT; 2015) with apps
Slithery Snakes (Two Lions/Amazon Children's Publishing, NY, NY; 2013)
Roxie's Puzzle Adventure app (OCG Studios, Netherlands, 2013)
Busy Builders (Two Lions/Amazon Children's Publishing, NY, NY; Marshall Cavendish, Tarrytown, NY; 2012)
Roxie's Doors app (OCG Studios, Netherlands, 2011)
Roxie's A-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure app (OCG Studios, Netherlands; 2011)
Take a Line for a Walk, contributor. Robin Landa, author (Wadsworth Publishing; 2011)
Hatch! (Two Lions/Amazon Children's Publishing, Marshall Cavendish, Tarrytown, NY; 2011)
Desert Days, Desert Nights (Bright Sky Press, Houston, TX; 2010)
EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures (Sterling Publishing, NY, NY; 2010)
Inside-Outside Dinosaurs (Two Lions/Amazon Children's Publishing, Marshall Cavendish, Tarrytown, NY; 2009)
Go! Go! Go! (Sterling Publishing, NY, NY; 2009)
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (contributor; Candlewick, Boston, MA; 2008)
Texas Rangers: Legendary Lawmen (written by Mike Spradlin; Walker Books/Bloomsbury USA, NY, NY; 2008)
Rodeo (Bright Sky Press, Houston, TX; 2007)
Mazeways: A to Z (Sterling Publishing, NY, NY; 2007; iNK Books & Media, White Plains, NY, 2019)
Circus (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA; 2006)
Wild West Trail Ride Maze (Bright Sky Press, Houston, TX; 2006)
Amazement Park (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA; 2005; PB, Sterling Publishing, NY, 2009)
Robert's Snowflakes (contributor; edited by Grace Lin; Viking, Penguin Group, NY NY, 2005)
The Great Bridge-Building Contest (written by Bo Zaunders; Abrams, NY, NY; 2004; iNK Books & Media, White Plains, NY, 2019)
Ranch (Bright Sky Press, Houston, TX; 2004; iNK Books & Media, White Plains, NY, 2019)
Gargoyles, Girders & Glass Houses: Magnificent Master Builders (written by Bo Zaunders; Dutton Children's Books, Penguin, NY, NY, 2004; iNK Books & Media, White Plains, NY, 2019)
Doors (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA; 2004)
Mazescapes (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA; SeaStar, North-South Books, NY, NY, & Zurich, Switzerland; Uitgeverij Westeinde, Holland; Editions PechePommepoire, France; PescaMela Ediziono, Italy; August 2001 ; Scholastic (PB), 2002; Chronicle (PB), 2005)
Learn Chess Fast: The Fun Way to Start Smart and Master the Game (written by Raymond Keene and Nancy Stewart; Bright Sky Press, Texas; Fall 2001)
Feathers, Flaps & Flops: Fabulous Early Fliers (written by Bo Zaunders; Dutton Children's Books, Penguin, NY, NY; June 2001; iNK Books & Media, White Plains, NY, 2019)
The New York Times What's Doing Around the World (written by Joseph Siano; Lebhar-Friedman Books; NY, NY; March 2001)
The Inside-Outside Book of Texas (SeaStar, North-South Books,NY,NY; Zurich, Switzerland; March 2001)
Crocodiles, Camels & Dugout Canoes: Eight Adventurous Episodes (written by Bo Zaunders; Dutton Children's Books, Penguin, NY,NY; 1998; iNK Books & Media, White Plains, NY, 2019)
The Inside-Outside Book of Libraries (written by Julie Cummins; Dutton Children's Books, Penguin, NY,NY; 1996; Yuan-Liou Publishers, Taiwan; 2000; PB, Random House, 2008)
Purr... Children's Book Illustrators Brag about Their Cats (contributor; edited by Michael J. Rosen; Harcourt Brace; NY NY; 1996)
American Defenders of Land Sea & Air (written by Kay Weeks; National Park Service, Washington, DC; 1996)
The Inside-Outside Book of Paris (Dutton Children's Books, Penguin, NY,NY, 1992; Pavilion Books, London,1992)
The Great American Landmarks Adventure (written by Kay Weeks; National Park Service/The American Architectural Foundation, Washington, DC; 1992)
The Inside-Outside Book of London (Dutton Children's Books, Penguin, NY, NY, 1989; Pavilion Books, London, 1989; Puffin Books, Penguin Putnam, NY, NY, 1996; Rizzoli/Universe, 2015)
Blimps (Dutton Children's Books, Penguin Putnam, NY, NY; 1989; Fukutake Pub Co, Tokyo; 1991; Puffin Books, Penguin, NY, NY, 1993; Holp Shuppan Book-ing Ltd., 2007; iNK Books & Media, White Plains, NY, 2019)
The Inside-Outside Book of Washington DC (Dutton Children's Books, Penguin, NY,NY; 1987; Puffin Books, Penguin, NY,NY; 1993; SeaStar, North-South Books, NY,NY, & Zurich, Switzerland; 2001)
Christmastime in New York City (Dodd Mead, 1987; Puffin Books, Penguin, NY, NY, 1994; Rizzoli/Universe, NY, NY, 2014)
Architects Make Zigzags: Looking at Architecture from A to Z (written by Diane Maddex; Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation; 1986; John Wiley & Sons, NY)
The Inside-Outside Book of New York City (Dodd Mead, NY,NY, 1985; Putnam, NY,NY; 1989; Puffin Books, Penguin;1989; SeaStar, North-South Books, NY,NY, & Zurich, Switzerland; 2001)
Color New York (Arbor House, NY,NY; 1985)
CD-ROM: Roxie Munro's Inside-Outside Treasure Hunt Game (produced by Byron Preiss Multimedia, NY, NY, distributed by Orange Cherry)
Roxie Munro has had fourteen paintings published as covers of The New Yorker magazine
Book Awards (selected):
The Inside-Outside Book of New York City: New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book Award; TIME Magazine's Best Children's Book of the Year; NCTE Books That Invite Talk, Wonder, and Play; Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Books for Children List
A Day in the Life of the Desert: The Nature Generation GREEN EARTH BOOK AWARD 2024 Recommended List
Anteaters, Bats & Boas: Starred reviews in ALA's Booklist and School Library Journal. American Scientist : Best1 12 STEM Books for Children published in 2021. Top Ten Science & Technology books for 2021 (Booklist). Best Children's Books of the Year 2022, Bank Street.
DIVE IN: Best Children's Books of the Year 2021 , Bank Street.
Rodent Rascals: Starred reviews from Kirkus, BookList, Publishers Weekly; Cybill Award Nominee in Nonfiction, 2018; Bank Street Best Books of the Year 2019 List for STEM; PA Young Readers Choice List 2022-23 for Grades 3-6
Masterpiece Mix: Bank Street Best Books of the Year List; Wall Street Journal's Best New Children's Book
EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures: Starred review, School Library Journal; CYBIL Nominee (Children & Young Adult Bloggers Literary Award); Smithsonian: Great Science Books for Children 2010
Busy Builders: Bank Street Center for Children’s Literature (CCL) Cook Prize Silver Medal for STEM
Hatch!: Children's Book of the Month Club; CBC "Go Green!" Summer Reading List; CYBILS Award Nominee for Nonfiction; Eric Carle Museum Best Book of 2011 List; Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12, National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) & Children’s Book Council (CBC); Society of School Librarians International Honor Book Award; Bank Street College Best Books of 2012, with Outstanding Merit; Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award Finalist
Christmastime in New York City and Blimps: New York Times Best Children's Books List
Blimps: NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children; New York Times Best Picture Book of the Year
Market Maze: Kirkus Starred Review; Reading Rockets (WETA) Summer Reading List 2015
Gargoyles, Girders & Glass Houses; Crocodiles, Camels, & Dugout Canoes; and The Inside-Outside Book of Washington DC: NCSS-CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies
The Inside-Outside Book of Washington DC: IRA/CBC Books Means Business List; Horn Book Star;
Mazescapes: School Library Journal Starred Review; Parenting magazine Pick of the Month; Scholastic Book Club
Inside-Outside Dinosaurs; Amazement Park; Doors; Circus and Ranch: Children's Book of the Month Club
The Inside-Outside Book of Libraries: School Library Journal Starred Review; SLJ Best Book of the Year; Smithsonian Notable Books for Children; American Booksellers Pick of the Lists; Horn Book Guide Starred Review; Finalist: Nevada Young Readers Award; Rhode Island Children’s Book Award nomination; Lasting Connections, ALA; Texas Reading Club; San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle “Editor’s Choice”; Bank Street College Best Book Choice; Children's Crown Award Nominee
Feathers, Flaps & Flops: School Library Journal Starred Review; SLJ Best Book of the Year; Center for Children's Books Best Book of the Year List
Doors: Child Magazine Best Book of the Month; Horn Book Best Summer Reading List; CBOM; Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Year Selection; Tumblebooks Pick; Best New Book selection, Scholastic Parent & Child
Ranch: 2006 NAPPA (National Parenting Publication) Family Honors Award; CBOM Club Selection; Texas Reading Club 2009
Rodeo: Ten Best Texas Books of the Year Choice, Houston Chronicle; Finalist, Texas Institute of Letters, Friends of the Austin Public Library Award for Best Children's Book
Desert Days, Desert Nights: Science Book Club Choice
Mazeways: A to Z: 2008 Edition of Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year; Chicago Public Library Children's Books for Year Round Giving List
Inside-Outside Dinosaurs: Kansas National Education Association Reading Circle Recommendation; ReadKiddoRead: Ultimate Summer Reading List 2010
Amazement Park: Washington Post "Best Books for Boys" pick; Horn Book Summer Reading List; "Reading Rockets" Summer Vacation List; Children’s Book of the Month Club
Gargoyles, Girders & Glass Houses: Bank Street College Best of of the Year List
Wild West Trail Ride Maze: Bronze Medal, Interactive Children's Books (IPPY, Independent Publishers)
Other book awards include American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, Booklist and Publisher' s Weekly starred reviews; NYPL: 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing; works from The Inside-Outside Book of New York City; The Inside-Outside Book of Paris; The Great Bridge-Building Contest; and others chosen for The Original Art Exhibit, Society of Illustrators, NYC
Teaching/Lectures (selected):
School, Library, and Conference presentations: NY, NJ, CT, MA, MD, VA, WV, DE, PA, TX, CA, DC, FL; American Library Association; Texas Library Association; Connecticut Library Association; ABA/BookExpo America; Miami Book Fair; Texas Book Festival; New York Library Association; National Council of Teachers of English; New York State Reading Association; West Texas A&M University Reading Conference; Miami-Dade Public Libraries; Mazza Museum Summer Institute (University of Findlay, OH); Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD); Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ); Museum of the Gulf Coast (Port Arthur, TX); Brooklyn Museum, NY; University of Richmond (VA); Princeton Children's Book Festival, NJ; Brooklyn Book Festival, NY; New York Public Library; SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators) Annual Winter Conference (NY, NY); SCBWI British Isles Annual Conference (Winchester, UK); West Virginia Book Festival (Charleston, WV); University of Connecticut, Hartford; University of Chicago Laboratory School; NYC College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY; 21st Century Children's Nonfiction Conference, SUNY New Paltz; The New School, NY,NY; Princeton Children's Literature Conference, NJ; TRT 4th International Children's Media Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.
Workshop Instructor: Paint in Italy Program (Lake Como; Bordighera; Sorrento): Summers, 1994 - 2006; Wine and Watercolor Workshop (Napa Valley, CA); Annapolis (MD) Watercolor Workshop.
Lecturer/Art Instructor (cruise ships): Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Mary II (Cunard Line); The World, ResidenSea; Voyages of Discovery; Star Clipper .
Museum Exhibitions (selected):
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Detroit Museum of Art, MI; Delaware Museum of Art (solo show), Wilmington; Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA; Carnegie-Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA; Chicago Art Institute; New York Public Library; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Toronto Museum, Canada; Zimmerli Museum (solo show), Rutgers University, NJ; Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, WI; Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD; the New-York Historical Society; The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA (solo show); Portland Children's Museum, Portland, OR; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga,TN; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Museum of the Gulf Coast, Port Arthur, TX; MoMA-sponsored Corporate Exhibitions; National Building Museum, Washington DC
Corporate/Public/University Collections (selected):
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst, MA; Kerlan Collection, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN); De Grummond Children's Literature Collection, University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, MS); AT&T (New York, NY); Banco-Italia (Milan, Italy); Carnegie Hall (New York, NY); Johnson&Higgins (New York, NY); Pfizer, Inc (New York, NY); Unilever, Inc (New York, NY); The New York Public Library; National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC); Barnes & Noble (New York, NY); AOL Time Warner (New York, NY); University of Delaware; K&L Partners (New York, NY); Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD; Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University (NJ); Mazza Museum, University of Findlay (OH); Lazarus & Harris (New York, NY); New York University (New York, NY); Dell Children's Medical Center, Austin, TX ; Mutual of Omaha, NY,NY; New-York Historical Society, NY, NY.
Private Collections (selected):
Estate of Gene Kelly ( Los Angeles, CA); Mr & Mrs Jerome Powell, Washington DC; Estate of Fred Ruffner (Detroit, MI); Andrew Beyer/Susan Vallon (Washington, DC); Mr & Mrs Jack Leiner (Monmouth Beach, NJ); Abraham Hirschfeld (New York, NY); Susan Van Metre (Brooklyn, NY); Mr & Mrs Ralph Guild (NY, NY, & Palm Beach, FL); Mr & Mrs Ardon Judd (Houston, TX & Washington DC); Betsy Ashton (New York, NY); Chris Caltieri (Forest Hills, NY); Jerry Abrahams/Julie Marrone (New York, NY); Jo Ousterhout/Jeffrey Fergus (Washington, DC); Mr & Mrs Stephen Ackerman (Tenafly, NJ); Ramona Retting (Bronx, NY); Mr & Mrs Gerald Lichtenberger (Mendham, NJ); Suzanne Wilson (Potomac, MD); Dr. George Szego (Annapolis, MD); Mr & Mrs Albert Beveridge II (Washington DC); Mr & Mrs Leslie Garfield (New York, NY); Allan Dodds Frank/Lilian King (New York, NY); Morris Tabaksblat (Rotterdam, the Netherlands); Mr & Mrs Howard Roher (Port Washington, NY); Eleanor Clift (Washington, DC); Mr & Mrs Steven Case (McLean, VA); Mr & Mrs Allan Windt (Haverford, PA); Mr & Mrs James Van Metre (Alexandria, VA); Dr & Mrs Robert Melashenko (Great Falls, MT); Charles Barlow (Calgary, Canada); Mr & Mrs David Hudson (Leeds, England); Mr & Mrs Robert Barman (London, England); Hans-Peter Tobler (Zurich, Switzerland); Mr & Mrs Christopher Engberg (Stockholm, Sweden)
Gallery Representation:
Simie Maryles Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Sigrid Freundorfer, New York, NY
Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York, NY
Marin-Price Gallery, Chevy Chase, MD
Annapolis Collection, Annapolis, MD
Education:
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (BFA in Painting, 1969)
Ohio University, Athens, OH (Graduate Fellowship/Painting)
Yaddo Resident Fellowship in Painting, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1980
Roxie Munro is listed in "Who's Who in America"; "Who's Who of American Women";
and "Who's Who in American Education"
Membership:
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Bank Street Writers Lab
iNK Think Tank , Board of Directors
KidLit TV, Advisory Board