Author Archives: rosinskynatalie

Beyond Halloween Thrills

Posted on October 1, 2018

Heralding Halloween, plastic ghosts and ghouls materialized on some front porches back in September. This horde will rapidly increase–adding movie monsters, comic book creatures, and graveyard trappings—as October 31 approaches. Yet the truly terrifying may not be what we see … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, story collection | Tagged Baba Yaga's Assistant, blended families, Bluebeard, Emily Carroll, fairy tales, fantasy, Halloween, horror, Laurie Halse Anderson, Marika McCoola, rape, recovering from rape, Red Riding Hood, sexual violence, Speak, Speak: The Graphic Novel, stories, supernatural, suspense, terror, Through the Woods | Leave a comment

Immigrant Generations

Posted on September 1, 2018

Have you been busy calming your young people’s new school or classroom jitters? In my senior citizen circles, this duty falls to grandparents as well as parents and school staff. It can be even more frightening or puzzling for students … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, picture books | Tagged "boat people", A Different Pond, art, back to school, Bao Phi, communication, Dan Santat, Drawn Together, family history, fishing, grandparents, immigrant, immigration policies, language barrier, memoir, Minh Le, Minneapolis, North Vietnam, President Trump, refugee camp, refugees, Thai-American, Thi Bui, Vietnamese War, Vietnamese-American, working class | Leave a comment

At Play

Posted on July 31, 2018

With school supplies already on store shelves and in newspaper ads, autumn is looming! It is a good time to remember how valuable unstructured play and long summer days can be for our young people before they head back to … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels | Tagged 7th grade, 8th grade, African American, All Summer Long, Asian, Barbara Perez Marquez, cardboard boxes, Chad Sell, Cloud Jacobs, costumes, David Demeo, Dominican folklore, fairy tale characters, fantasy play, forming a band, friendship, gay families, gender identity, gender roles, Hope Larson, imaginative play, Jay Fuller, Katie Schenkel, Kostas Ntanos, Kris Moore, Manuel Betancourt, Michael Cole, middle school, mixed race families, Molly Muldoon, neighborhood, neighborhood play, psychological growth, role playing, social growth, The Cardboard Kingdom, thirteen year-olds, tweens, unstructured play, Vid Alliger | Leave a comment

Park It!

Posted on June 28, 2018

Bears and bison and wolves, oh my! A visit to Yellowstone National Park was one of June’s highlights for me. We spent most of that two day excursion gazing at the park’s many geological wonders—colorful crests and vivid mud pools … Continue reading →

Posted in graphic novels, picture books | Tagged "The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone", A Weird and Wild Beauty: The Story of Yellowstone The World's First National Park, Albert Peale, Annette Bay PImentel, Changing of the Guard: The Yellowstone Chronicles, dinosaurs, Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone, Epsilon: A Yellowstone Wolf Story, Erin Peabody, George Black, grizzlies, grizzly bears, Jurassic, Lita Judge, Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries Changed His Plans and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service, national park service history, predators, President Donald Trump, Rich Lo, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, Silvertip: A Year in the LIfe of a Yellowstone Grizzly, Smithsonian Museum, Stephen Mather, Ted Rechlin, Thomas Moran, Tie Sing, wolves, Yellowstone Moran: Painting the American West, Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park | Leave a comment

Summer Reading–To Sip or Chew

Posted on May 28, 2018

What kinds of reading will you do this summer? “Summer reading” can have very different meanings. Will yours be hummingbird sips of brief pieces, pages of mainly light-hearted material scanned in between other outdoor activities? Or will you and yours … Continue reading →

Posted in biographies, graphic novels, manga, picture books | Tagged Agnodice, Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World, California Dreamin':Cass Elliot Before the Mamas & the Papas, Cheryl Bridges, Christine Jorgensen, Clementine Delait, Delia Akeley, Emma Williams, Footnotes in Gaza, Frances Glessner Lee, Gaza, Giorgina Reid, Hedy Lamarr, heroic women, Ibrahim Quraishi, Joe Sacco, Josephine Baker, Katia Krafft, Las Mariposas, Lozen, Mae Jemison, manga, Margaret Hamilton, Message to Adolf, Message to Adoph, Montana Kane, Naziq al-Abid, Nelly Bly, Nzinga, Osamu Tezuka, Palestine, Penelope Bagieu, Sonita Alizadeh, summer reading, Temple Grandin, Tezuka Osamu, The Story of Hurry, Tove Jansson, women's biographies, women's history, Wu Zetian | Leave a comment

Picturing Butterflies

Posted on May 1, 2018

A brand new, sumptuous picture book biography is my focus today. Its illustrations refreshed my winter-weary eyes, even as its crystal-clear language movingly revealed an exceptional woman, from girlhood through old age. And, whether by remarkable coincidence or fate, my … Continue reading →

Posted in biographies, picture books | Tagged 17th-century women, art history, butterfly metamorphosis, Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis, Don Larsson, entomology, Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, John Jacques Audubon, Joyce Sidman, Julie Paschkis, Kim Todd, Margarita Engle, Maria Merian, Maria Sibylla Merian: Artist/Scientist/Adventurer, naturalist, Peter Kuper, Ruins, Sarah B. Pomeroy, science, Scott Pakudaitis, Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian, Surinam, Susanna Centlivre, The Bassett Table, The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science, women artists, women scientists | Leave a comment

On Earth Day: Poetry Embracing Science

Posted on April 21, 2018

I was shocked—an editor had just told me that poetry had no place in science books! This young man had been assigned by the publisher to shepherd my completed work-for-hire, about watersheds for middle school readers, into print. The poetry … Continue reading →

Posted in articles | Tagged A Place in Space:: Ethics Aesthetics and Watersheds, Anna Dumont, Beckie Prange, Beth Krommes, Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow, Cathie, Cathie Felstead, Chris Brubeck, Christopher Wormell, Convergence, Damia Lewis, Dirt: The Scoop on Soil, e.e. cummings, Earth Day, Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up, Frederica von Stade, Gary Snyder, J. Patrick Lewis, Joyce Sidman, Light: Shadows Mirrors and Rainbows, Lisa Westberg Peters, Matthew John, Patty Schlutt, picture books, poetry, River of Song, River of Words: Young Poets and Artists on the Nature of Things, Rocks: Hard Soft Smooth and Rough, science, Sheree Boyd, Song of the River Boatman and Other Pond Poems, Swan Song: Poems of Extinction, watersheds | Leave a comment