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Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Amy Krouse Rosenthal (April 29, 1965 – March 13, 2017) was an American author of both adult and children's books, a short film maker, and radio show host. She is best known for her memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, her children's picture books, and the film project The Beckoning of Lovely. She was a prolific writer, publishing more than 30 children's books between 2005 and her death in 2017. She is the only author to have three children's books make the Best Children's Books for Family Literacy list in the same year. She was a contributor to Chicago's NPR affiliate WBEZ, and to the TED conference

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I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordina ...

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world wi ...

If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse.

I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, ...

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the futu ...

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content ...

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowl ...

“Of course I looked at memoirs and autobiographies, and I quickly realized that my thing was not g ...

“I feel like it maybe summarized everything I wanted to say. If there's only one page I could tear ...

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty ab ...