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K.I.W.i. (Kids Interactive Walk-in) Storybooks:
Playful creative ways to teach core curriculum with standards-based lessons. Giant backdrops (nine themes, printed on both sides), interactive apps (games, Q&A, puzzles, sounds, video), 2-act plays, lots of curriculum tied to CC, skits, more. New! Now all nine themes available in Jr. fold-out desktop sizes. Info: http://www.kiwistorybooks.com/index.html 
Watch children's authors & illustrators DANCE! KidLit TV created a short (2 minutes) video to support the Ambassador of School Libraries for Scholastic Book Fairs John Schumacher's (aka Mr. Schu) #KidLitOnEllenShow campaign, a hashtag that hopes to bring Caldecott and Newbery winners to the Ellen Show. Click here: http://kidlit.tv/2016/01/kidlitonellenshow/ June 10-12 I'm presenting at the 21st Century Children's Nonfiction Conference, at Iona College in New York, on social media (w/Julie Gribble of KidLit TV), interactive apps (w/Sarah Towle of Time Traveler Tours & Tales), the "gamification" of nonfiction content, more. Info: http://www.21cnfc.com/
Includes "The Decline of Play and Rise in Children's Mental Disorders" (Psychology Today). Click here (scroll down for PT article):
http://us11.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a2f90d9524e9c0ec25629ae41&id=fe5c9a1409&e=[UNIQID] 
There's a great Intensive 5-day Workshop on The Business of Children's Publishing by Leonard Marcus (along with many other professionals) at SVA in NYC, early May...check it out: http://www.sva.edu/continuing-education/gvn/the-business-of-children-s-book-publishing-16-cs-vnc-2683-a
Open Studio Weekend On Saturday May 21 & Sunday May 22, from 12 noon to 6 pm, I am opening my studio to the public, along with two dozen artists in my building, and hundreds in the neighborhood. Roxie Munro Studio, #340, 43-01 21st Street, Long Island City, NY. Directions: http://www.roxiemunro.com/studio-directions.html OCG Studios, the wonderfully creative trailer and app developer, has a cool new game app out called -GO-. They did all the KIWi Storybooks apps, as well as Roxie's a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure, Roxie's Doors, and Roxie's Puzzle Adventure.
Featured app (Spring 2016): "Roxie's Puzzle Adventure" (148Apps: "Perfect puzzle app for young child as well as seasoned puzzle users"; great Horn Book Review of the Week; SLJ Top Ten Apps of 2013 )
My blog focuses mainly on children's books and publishing (copyright issues, the gamification of nonfiction, making apps, informational vs nonfiction children's books, conference coverage, more).
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Learn How to Draw an Owl:
a short step-by-step video, based on the Great Horned Owl in Hatch! Share children's drawings with KidLit TV, or send to my website. Click here: http://kidlit.tv/2016/03/ready-set-draw-roxie-munro _________________________________
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by top children's nonfiction authors (Vicki Cobb, Doreen Rappaport, David Schwartz, Steve Jenkins, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Jan Adkins, and others, including me).
Every day a different free 400-word text on a riveting topical NF subject, with audio recording by the author, and visuals. Click here: http://www.nonfictionminute.com/ _________________________________
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Click on image above to download a free Poster Activity for
Market Maze. For FISH and GREENMARKET coloring sheets to download, go to http://www.roxiemunro.com/market-maze.html _________________________________
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FREE Coloring Sheets... Dinosaurs, mazes (from EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures; Mazeways: A to Z; and Wild West Trail Ride Maze), and two deserts with cool critters from Desert Days, Desert Nights. Click link: http://www.roxiemunro.com/mazes-and-coloring-pages.html 
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