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
Big Momma Makes The World
Candlewick Press
Lucia and the Light
Candlewick Press
One Duck Stuck
Candlewick Press
If You Want to See a Caribou
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Aunt Nancy
Candlewick Press
Old Man Trouble
Candlewick Press
The Bothersome Visitors
Candlewick Press
Rattletrap Car
Candlewick Press
Lilly and the Pirates
Boyds Mill Press
Big Belching Bog
University of Minnesota Press
Creak! Said the Bed
Candlewick Press
Paula Bunyan
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Flip, Flap, Fly!
Candlewick press
Who Said Boo?
Little Simon
Hop!
Candlewick Press
Quack!
Candlewick Press
Ten Sleepy Sheep
Candlewick Press
Oliver Finds His Way
Candlewick Press
Kiss the Cow
Candlewick Press
Coyote and the Magic Woods
Candlewick Press