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Phyllis Root is the author of fifty books for children, including Big Momma Makes the World, which won a Boston Globe Horn Book Award, Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble which won a Minnesota Book Award, Plant a Pocket of Prairie which won a John Burroughs Riverby Award, as did One North Star  two years later, along with a Northeast Minnesota Book Award.

Welcome.

Phyllis Root is the author of fifty books for children, including Big Momma Makes the World, which won a Boston Globe Horn Book Award, Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble which won a Minnesota Book Award, Plant a Pocket of Prairie which won a John Burroughs Riverby Award, as did One North Star  two years later, along with a Northeast Minnesota Book Award.  
 

Books

Celia Planted a Garden, The Story of Celia Thaxter and Her Island Garden is Phyllis Root’s newest picture book, available now (Candlewick). Written with Gary D. Schmidt, illustrated by Melissa Sweet. “From an all-star team comes a lyrical picture-book biography about a writer and master gardener who created beauty in a harsh island habitat that was visited by literary and artistic luminaries of her time.”

A splendid introduction to a lesser-known nature poet and the landscapes that inspired her.
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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Check out the BEGIN WITH A BEE playlist on Spotify, curated by illustrator Claudia McGehee

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