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Thursday September 02, 2010
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#34 Title:
Meet Rosemary Wells
Special Guest: Rosemary Wells, Award-winning Author and Illustrator
Description:
Rosemary Wells is one of the most creative and popular children’s book authors and illustrators of our time. She is the creator of Max and Ruby, Noisy Nora, Yoko, Timothy and more. Today Rosemary shares her artistic inspirations and her need to create in a passionate, yet humble way with two of her biggest fans.
Duration: 42:47
Listen to our interview with Mike Berenstain, author and illustrator of The Berenstain Bears.
Index
00:41 Meet Rosemary Wells!
03:02 On Being an Author
10:48 Stories on the Screen
16:45 Listener: Julaine on Animals as Characters
17:26 Using Animals as Characters
21:24 On Being an Illustrator
23:37 Read 20 Minutes a Day
26:55 People Who Want to Become Authors
30:54 Importance of Reading to Children
38:38 Closing Comments
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Music
Spotlight
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About Rosemary Wells
Rosemary Wells was born in New York City and grew up on the New Jersey Shore. Most of her childhood was spent outdoors at a time when New Jersey was still small farms and miles of woods. Her mother was a dancer in the Russian Ballet, and her father a playwright and actor. Mrs. Wells says,"Both my parents flooded me with books and stories. My grandmother took me on special trips to the theater and museums in New York.
When I was two years old I began to draw and they saw right away the career that lay ahead of me and encouraged me every day of my life. As far back as I can remember, I did nothing but draw."
Rosemary Wells attended Boston Museum School and married in her early twenties. She began her career in children's books working as a designer at Macmillan in New York, and it was there that she published her first book, an illustrated edition of Gilbert & Sullivan's I Have a Song to Sing-O.
Visit rosemarywells.com for more.
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Five Points on Reading From Rosemary Wells
Source: Read to Your Bunny Campaign
• Children who read succeed. The most significant part of a child's mental growth between the ages of three and seven is the ability to imagine. Books boost imagination. Our popular television culture degrades imagination.
• TV and video are now our national babysitters. But a young child's growing mind needs active play and live conversation. Television puts a child into what neurologists call the passive Alpha state. A child cannot learn from screens because programs are meant to sell products not to teach.
• Much like the first news about tobacco and cholesterol, early studies now link overdoses of TV, video games and pop music with learning disabilities, attention deficiency, speech defects and aggressive behavior.
• Screen watching makes a child a follower and a consumer. Books exist because of the power of human ideas. Readers are leaders and producers.
• After a tiring day nothing is more restful than reading with a child on your lap. Reading aloud offers a world of privacy, dignity, and love to both of you.
From a speech by noted author/illustrator, Rosemary Wells
for use with the "Read to Your Bunny" library outreach campaign.
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Recommended by Rosemary Wells
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The Most Important Twenty Minutes Of Your Day
Taken from: Read to Your Bunny
ALL OF US love our children more than anything in the world. In their first years we feed them so they grow. We bring them to the doctor so they are healthy. We strap them in car seats so they are safe.
But the most important thing in the first years of life is the growth of the mind and spirit. This is when a child learns to love and trust, to speak and listen. After a child turns two years old, these things are very difficult to learn or teach ever again. Trusting, singing, laughing, and language are the most important things in a young child’s life.
And so they must come first for mothers and fathers, too. Because we can never have those years over again.
Every day, make a quiet, restful place for twenty minutes. Put your child in your lap and read a book aloud. In the pages of the book you will find a tiny vacation of privacy and intense love. It costs nothing but twenty minutes and a library card.
Reading to your little one is just like putting gold coins in the bank. It will pay you back tenfold. Your daughter will learn, and imagine, and be strong in herself. Your son will thrive, and give your love back forever. – R.W.
About Max & Ruby
Max & Ruby is a half-hour animated comedy series based on the children's books by Rosemary Wells. Each episode centers on Max, a determined three-year-old bunny, and his big sister, Ruby, a smart, goal-oriented seven-year-old. The show offers an empowering message for children by showing Max and Ruby playing together and resolving their differences in ways that are respectful and supportive.
Jen's Top 3 Favorite Books
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Bunny Cakes Jasmine loves the prediction part of this story!
• Max's ABC Jade likes watching the ants.
• Noisy Nora - This is my favorite. It reminds me of Jade.
Vicky's Top 3 Favorite Books
• Max Cleans Up We love the illustrations made from collage materials.
• My Kindergarten There are a gazillion learning opportunities in this book.
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Noisy Nora Aidan and I love both the video and the book!
Books
Rosemary has written more than 135 books, many of them can be found through amazon.com
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