Marisabina Russo

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Marisabina Russo (Marisabina Stark) is an award-winning children's book author and illustrator. She has written and illustrated over twenty books for children and young adults. Her most notable books include The Line Up Book (winner of the IRA Children’s Book Award) and Always Remember Me (an ALA Notable Book).

She was born in New York, New York and graduated from Mount Holyoke College with BA in Studio Art in 1971. She began her career as a freelance illustrator. Her work appeared frequently in The New Yorker and included several covers. She then went on to illustrate a book of poetry for children, Vacation Time by Nikki Giovanni. She started publishing her own stories with Greenwillow Books in 1986. Russo’s books come from her own childhood memories and her experiences as a mother. Her illustrations, painted in gouache, are colorful and two-dimensional, reminiscent of folk art. More recently, Ms. Russo has written young adult novels.

Her books have also been translated into Korean and Japanese. She has published with Greenwillow Books, Simon & Schuster, Random House and Harcourt, Brace.

[edit] Books written and illustrated by Marisabina Russo:

Always Remember Me ALA Notable Book
The Trouble with Baby
The Big Brown Box The New York Public Library, Children's Books 2000 One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing
Mama Talks Too Much
The Line-Up Book International Reading Association Children's Book Award, 1987
Hannah’s Baby Sister Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College The Best Books of the Year, 1999 Edition
Under the Table
Trade-In Mother
Time to Wake Up!
I Don’t Want to Go Back to School
Waiting for Hannah Horn Book Fanfare, 1989
Where is Ben?
Why Do Grown-Ups Have All the Fun?
Only Six More Days
A Visit to Oma
Grandpa Abe
House of Sports
Come Back Hannah
When Mama Gets Home
The Bunnies Are Not in Their Beds
A Portrait of Pia