She held 'Beckoning of Lovely' events at the bean in Chicago's Millennium Park on August 8, 2008, September 9, 2009, October 10, 2010, and November 11, 2011. Her films include 17 Things I Made, Today is a Gift, ATM: Always Trust Magic, The Kindness Thought Bubble, The Money Tree and The Beckoning of Lovely. Some invite further interaction from viewers, some are social experiments, and some build upon each other to become something else entirely. Rosenthal made short films using her iPhone or Flip camera. Rosenthal's picture book Yes Day!, written by Tom Lichtenheld, has been adapted as a live-action Netflix Original film, Yes Day, released in March 2021.

Īlong with her adult and children's work, Rosenthal had a keepsake journal line (ten titles in all) including Encyclopedia of Me: My Life from A to Z and The Belly Book: A Nine-Month Journal for You and Your Growing Belly. It is the first book to include an interactive text-messaging component. Her follow-up, Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal, was published by Dutton Penguin Random House on August 9, 2016. Her alphabetized memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life (published in 2005) was named one of Amazon's top ten memoirs of the decade. She was selected as the 2015 author for 'The Global Read Aloud', an eight-week program for classrooms around the world to engage with each other by reading the same books. Duck! Rabbit! was read at the White House during the 2010 Easter Egg Roll. Rosenthal had several books on the New York Times bestseller list: I Wish You More, Uni the Unicorn, Plant a Kiss, Exclamation Mark, Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons, and Duck! Rabbit!. Books Īmy Krouse Rosenthal wrote for both adults and children. She was a contributor to Chicago's NPR affiliate WBEZ, and to the TED conference. 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 prolific writer, publishing more than 30 children's books between 2005 and her death in 2017. 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. Rosenthal speaking at the TEDx Waterloo conference, February 25, 2010Īmy Krouse Rosenthal (Ap– March 13, 2017) was an American author of both adult and children's books, a short film maker, and radio show host.

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