Amazon jean marzollo biography book

She says, "As a child, I loved to read and sew dolls' clothes, one outfit after another.

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After working as a high school English teacher and editor of Scholastic's "Let's Find Out" kindergarten magazine with Carol Devine Carson for 20 years, I began writing children's books. I have written over books, including the award-winning, best-selling I SPY series for children, written completely in rhythm and rhyme. Rhythm and rhyme are like music without the tune; they lure and excite the ear.

Children love rhythm and rhyme, and so do I. When I wrote the first I SPY book, I automatically thought of kindergarten children so everything that I called for was concrete, something a 5-year-old can find. The result is a hunting game that children and grownups can play together successfully. Sometimes children are better than their parents!

In recent years I took up painting and have begun to illustrate my own "books on paper" and "books online. Writing and illustrating picture books today is as much fun as sewing dolls' clothes was when I was in third grade.

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