Awake Beautiful Child by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

makes short films using her iPhone or Flip camera. has a keepsake journal line (ten titles in all) including Encyclopedia of Me: My Life from A to Z and The Belly Book: A Nine-Month Journal for You and Your Growing Belly. Her follow-up Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal will be published by Dutton/ Penguin Random House in August 2016.Īlong with her adult and children's work, Amy K.R. I had forgotten, until I reread it recently, what a delight it was to spend time with this self-described 'ordinary' person, learning her quirks and hangups, her likes and dislikes, her everyday (and not) adventures (including the inspired way she attempted to get out of paying a parking ticket - you'll love it, trust me), all arranged, encyclopedia-style, from A ('Amy,' 'Anxious, Things That Make Me Anxious,' 'Ayn Rand') to Y ('You'), with appropriate cross-references and clever drawings to supplement the text. Here's no way I'm going to confuse Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life with any other memoir anytime soon. In 2010, National Public Radio's Morning Edition spoke about Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life: It was named one Amazon's top ten memoirs of the decade. Her alphabetized memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life (published in 2005) is her most successful book for adults.

She was selected as the 2015 author for The Global Read Aloud, an eight-week program for classrooms around the world to engage with each other by reading the same books. has had several books on the New York Times bestseller list: I Wish You More, Uni the Unicorn, Plant a Kiss, Exclamation Mark, Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons and Duck! Rabbit! Duck! Rabbit! was read at the White House during the 2010 Easter Egg Roll. Better yet, her jokes sing with specificity and an understanding of children.Īmy K.R.

Among her gifts is an ability to take what in other hands could have been a thin premise - a piglet who hates being messy, in the case of Little Oink a young spoon who wishes he was a fork or a knife or chopsticks, in Spoon - and wring all kinds of sly, nifty variations out of it. . Her books radiate fun the way tulips radiate spring: they are elegant and spirit-lifting. The New York Times has called her books 'terrific'. Amy Krouse Rosenthal writes for both adults and children.

Awake Beautiful Child by Amy Krouse Rosenthal