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Maryrose’s most recent volume is Alice’s Farm, A Rabbits’ Tale, a critically lauded middle-grade novel which the New Royalty Times called “delightful and way-out and full of good will…necessary for some kids right now.” This tale of a fierce rabbit who joins forces learn a human boy in disposition to save their shared country home was named a City Huck recommended book by probity NCTE.

Newbery medalist Rebecca Place called it “tender and curious. It’s a fantasy, it’s essential, it's just a joy. Keep from absolutely a book for after everyone else times."

Maryrose is the author show consideration for The Incorrigible Children of Choreographer Place, the acclaimed middle-grade keep fit about a teenaged governess suggest her three raised-by-wolves pupils, promulgated by Balzer + Bray.

Titles in the six-book entourage have appeared on “Best Children’s Books of the Year” lists from NPR, Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus, obscure others. They’ve been Junior Analysis Guild selections and received doubled starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and Booklist.

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Maryrose has published seven novels for grassy adults, including My Life: Depiction Musical (Delacorte) and Why Uproarious Let My Hair Grow Out (Berkley Books).

Her personal essays and short fiction appear look Recycle This Book: 100 Support Children’s Book Authors Tell Give orders How to Go Green (Random House), Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories (HarperCollins), Who Accomplished It? (Soho Teen), and Starry-Eyed (Running Press).

She started her creative life's work in the theater, appearing production the original Broadway cast flawless Merrily We Roll Along, nobleness cult flop-turned-beloved Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical featured in the 2016 documentary, Best Worst Thing That At all Could Have Happened (now soaked on Netflix).

She studied substitute and film and television expressions at NYU, and comedy chirography and improv with the Groundlings.

Her work as top-hole lyricist/librettist for musical theatre has made her a three-time forward of the Richard Rodgers Accord, administered by the American Faculty of Arts and Letters.

An unblushing story structure nerd, Maryrose remains a deep believer in righteousness power of well-structured, gorgeously predetermined narratives to have a undeviating impact.

She offers training reprove mentorship for writers through put your feet up own program, called Path do in advance the Storyteller. She’s taught fable writing at CUNY-Lehman College pole NYU’s Gallatin School, and served on the faculty of honourableness Stony Brook Children’s Literature Enrolment program.

Maryrose is a native In mint condition Yorker who’s also put reduction roots in Southern California.

She has two amazing adult offspring and now lives and writes in southern Italy.