Phyllis Root

Writer in Residence

Biography

Phyllis Root is the author of over forty books, almost all of them picture books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her middle grade novel, Lilly and the Pirates, is currently under contract. Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble won the Minnesota Book Award, and Big Momma Makes the World won the Boston Globe Horn Book Award. Root was awarded a 2006 McKnight Fellowship for her book, Lucia and the Light. She has taught at the Loft, in the Complete and Practical Scholar program at the University of Minnesota, and in Vermont College's MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program.

Publications

Searching for Minnesota's Native Wildflowers: A Guide for Beginners, Botanists, and Everyone in Between
University of Minnesota Press, 2018

Anywhere Farm
Candlewick Press, 2017

One North Star
University of Minnesota Press, 2016

Snowy Sunday
Candlewick Press, 2015

Plant a Pocket of Prairie
University of Minnesota Press, 2013

Lilly and the Pirates
Boyds Mills Press, 2010

Big Belching Bog
University of Minnesota Press, 2010

Creak! Said the Bed
Candlewick Press, 2010

Flip, Flap, Fly!
Candlewick Press, 2009

Toot, Toot, Zoom!
Candlewick Press, 2009

Paula Bunyan
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

Aunt Nancy and the Bothersome Visitors
Candlewick Press, 2007

Looking for a Moose
Candlewick Press, 2006

Lucia and the Light
Candlewick Press, 2006

Quack!
Candlewick Press, 2005

Hop!
Candlewick Press, 2005

Who Said Boo?
Simon & Schuster, 2005

If You Want to See a Caribou
Houghton Mifflin, 2004

Ten Sleepy Sheep
Candlewick Press, 2004

The Name Quilt
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2003

Big Momma Makes The World