Join Roxie Munro on a journey through the wide world of Texas, where you can visit rugged Lambshead Ranch in Albany, and Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. Enjoy Texas Stadium in Irving, the River Walk in San Antonio, views of the spectacular Rio Grande...and much, much more! Vivid watercolor spreads offer extraordinarily detailed views of some of the most popular sites, as well as a healthy dose of the unexpected. And helpful material in the back, including a map and Texas symbols, presents additional facts about each place illustrated—making this book perfect for native Texans, for visitors, and for children.
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From Publishers Weekly
As in her previous books in the series, Roxie Munro takes a close look at the Lone Star State in The Inside-Outside Book of Texas. Featuring electric hues, Munro's realistic watercolor-and-ink artwork depicts images ranging from the dramatic (she pairs a panorama of the Dallas skyline with a picture of the sprawling Palo Duro Canyon) to the mundane (a full-page spread reveals ranch hands eating in a cookshack). Among the sites and topics covered are Texas Stadium (home of the Dallas Cowboys), Houston's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and native wildlife species. Two books in the series by Munro are also being re-released: The Inside-Outside Book of Washington, D.C. and The Inside-Outside Book of New York City.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 4-In another installment in the series, Munro presents a sequence of interesting pictures with captions of three or four words. For example, "Wildlife, outside-" features vignettes of a coyote, javelina, jackrabbit, roadrunner, and other typical creatures pictured in the open. On the next page, "And inside" shows a cactus wren's tail poking out of its nest, bats flying out from under the Congress Street bridge in Austin, and others. The watercolors are most effective in the large double-page spreads. Bright, cheerful colors invite the eye, and many well-known highlights and attractions of the state are featured. The author/illustrator includes a brief section explaining the pictures. Some of the entries are misleading. Allowing a javelina to approach for a "curious sniff" would be an act of possibly dangerous foolhardiness. Likewise, though "no human fatality" has been attributed to alligators in Texas, the author implies that they only "look scary." The coyote is described as "a pest" rather than a predator necessary to the balance of nature. Enjoy this book for its engaging artwork and look elsewhere for authoritative information.
Ruth Semrau, Upshur County Public Library, Gilmer, TX
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Ruth Semrau, Upshur County Public Library, Gilmer, TX
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Roxie Munro has been an artist from the age of six, when she won first prize in a county-wide contest for a painting of a bowl of fruit. She has supported herself all her life on her art, at one point freelancing in Washington DC as a television courtroom artist. Clients included CBS, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Fourteen of her paintings have been published as covers of "The New Yorker" magazine.
Roxie is an award-winning author/illustrator of more than 35 books for children, primarily nonfiction. Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese. Recent books: "Hatch!"; "EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures"; "Desert Days, Desert Nights"; and "Inside-Outside Dinosaurs." "Busy Builders," a book about bugs, comes out spring 2012.
"Roxie's a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure" is an interactive animated maze game app for the iPad and iPhone; "Roxie's Doors" is a 3-D animated book app for the iPad (OCG Studios, developer).
She also creates oils, watercolors, prints, and drawings, primarily cityscapes, which are exhibited widely in the US in galleries and museums. Roxie's work is in numerous private, public, and corporate collections.
Roxie Munro studied at the University of Maryland, the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore), received a BFA in Painting from the University of Hawaii, attended graduate school at Ohio University (Athens), and received a Yaddo Fellowship. She lectures in museums, schools, conventions, and teaches watercolor on ships, workshops, and in the Paint in Italy program.
Many of her paintings are views from the roof of her sky-lighted loft studio in Long Island City, just across the East River from her home in mid-Manhattan. Roxie is married to the Swedish writer/photographer, Bo Zaunders.
Check out her website at www.roxiemunro.com
Roxie is an award-winning author/illustrator of more than 35 books for children, primarily nonfiction. Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese. Recent books: "Hatch!"; "EcoMazes: 12 Earth Adventures"; "Desert Days, Desert Nights"; and "Inside-Outside Dinosaurs." "Busy Builders," a book about bugs, comes out spring 2012.
"Roxie's a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure" is an interactive animated maze game app for the iPad and iPhone; "Roxie's Doors" is a 3-D animated book app for the iPad (OCG Studios, developer).
She also creates oils, watercolors, prints, and drawings, primarily cityscapes, which are exhibited widely in the US in galleries and museums. Roxie's work is in numerous private, public, and corporate collections.
Roxie Munro studied at the University of Maryland, the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore), received a BFA in Painting from the University of Hawaii, attended graduate school at Ohio University (Athens), and received a Yaddo Fellowship. She lectures in museums, schools, conventions, and teaches watercolor on ships, workshops, and in the Paint in Italy program.
Many of her paintings are views from the roof of her sky-lighted loft studio in Long Island City, just across the East River from her home in mid-Manhattan. Roxie is married to the Swedish writer/photographer, Bo Zaunders.
Check out her website at www.roxiemunro.com
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A SUNSHINE BRIGHT BOOK ABOUT TEXAS,
This review is from: The Inside-Outside Book of Texas (Hardcover)
A song, "Deep In The Heart Of Texas" extolled the virtues of the Lone Star State to a foot tapping rhythm, and now this blockbuster sunshine bright book by Texas born Roxie Munro takes readers on a tour of the state known for cowboys, aeronautics, and oil.Ms. Munro, whose art has appeared on the cover of The New Yorker and is housed in various private collections, executed her eye-popping illustrations with watercolor and ink. The Rio Grande becomes an aqua trail bordered by spiky shamrock green cactus, while the port of Corpus Christi bustles with tugs, helicopters, and tankers. Boots of every size and hue dot a bootery in San Angelo, and a presentation at Palo Duro Canyon's Pioneer Amphitheater lights up the night sky. An appendix provides explanatory notes regarding included sites, and more. It's there you'll find that the state sport is rodeo and the state insect is the Monarch Butterfly. This tribute to Texas is a treasure trove of brightly colored illustrations and pertinent information.
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