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Roxie has been an artist from the age of six, when she won first prize in a county-wide contest for a painting of a bowl of fruit. She has supported herself all her life on her art, at one point freelancing in Washington DC as a television courtroom artist. Clients included CBS, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press.
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. Fourteen of her paintings have appeared as covers of "The New Yorker" magazine.
Roxie Munro studied at the University of Maryland, the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore), received a BFA in Painting from the University of Hawaii, attended graduate school at Ohio University (Athens), and received a Yaddo Fellowship. She lectures in museums, schools, conventions, and teaches in the Paint in Italy program.
Many oils and watercolors are views from the roof of her sky-lighted loft studio in Long Island City, just across the East River from her home in mid-Manhattan. Roxie is married to the Swedish writer/photographer, Bo Zaunders.
专业书评 From Booklist
Similar in concept and format to Munro's books Mazescapes (2001) and Amazement Park (2005), this colorful, large-format book offers hours of fun. Each picture features a letter of the alphabet as part of the composition, but finding the letter is only the start, as children trace their ways through 26 mazes and search for more than 700 tiny objects mentioned in the text and scattered through the detailed paintings. Some adult assistance may come in handy, as it's hard to find a gazebo or a mesa without knowing what the words mean. The final?nine pages of the book reproduce each picture in black and white, reduced in size and accompanied by the lists of searchable objects, with the maze routes and found objects marked in colored lines. At nearly one-foot square, this volume will present shelving challenges in some nonfiction collections, but the picture-book area is a good alternative. A bright, enticing book to challenge fans of the Where's Waldo?and I Spy series. Phelan, Carolyn
From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 2—Munro has drawn a wide variety of appealing, alphabetically arranged mazes filled with colorful details that will absorb young readers. Each letter is featured on a spread or a page with directions for traveling through the maze and finding different objects along the way. For example, O is for orchard: "Carry the basket of apples through the ORCHARD to the farmhouse. Then get back on the path to the picnic table for lunch." Then, readers are asked to "find 3 cows, a pier, a barn, a bridge, a park bench, a horse, a tractor, a ladder, 4 gates, a dog, a picnic table, and a pickup truck." Other settings include an airport, boatyard, highway, library, quarry, and ranch. The level of difficulty for each challenge falls somewhat below Martin Handford's "Where's Waldo?" (Candlewick) books and Jean Marzollo's "I Spy" (Scholastic) series. Back pages provide solutions. This engaging title works as an interactive alphabet book, an introduction to mapping skills, or to sharpen visual discrimination skills.—Mary Hazelton, Elementary Schools in Warren & Waldoboro, ME
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