My father was a playwright my mother was in the Russian ballet. They were older than most parents of my peers, and I was the only child. I was very lucky to be born into a family where my parents were extremely well-read. How did your upbringing shape who you are today and what you write about? Did you have any illustrators in the family? You grew up in the 1940s and 1950s in rural New Jersey (as you call it, the “golden years”). Here Rosemary chats with Mackin’s Lori Tracy about those “golden years” in America, how today’s students and education system have changed, how she can continually create award-winners, and why children shouldn’t read about vampires. Many of her books, however, transport the young reader back to those days filled with optimism, simplicity, exploration, common sense and hard work. It was a simpler time in America when Rosemary Wells transformed from a bright-eyed youngster to a well-read, talented writer and illustrator.
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