Marissa moss music writer
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Marissa Moss, inspires kids to write
Marissa Moss has been writing stories and drawing pictures to go with them for as long as she can remember. She sent her first book to publishers when she was nine, and although it wasn’t published, she never gave up the dream of seeing her words and pictures in print. “I loved the power words gave me. If I was mad at my older sister, I would invent someone just like her in my story and make bad things happen to that character. Then, to prove I could be nice, I’d rescue that character and make a happy ending.”
Moss was a high school student when she landed her first illustrating job. A local author, who couldn’t afford to pay much, asked Moss’s art teacher if he had a student who drew well enough to liven up his book. Moss got the job. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979 and studying art history in graduate school for two years, Moss attended the California College of Arts and Crafts to learn how to break into publishing. She submitted stories and drawings to editors for five years, accumulating a shoebox of r
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Marissa Moss
American children's book author (born 1959)
Marissa Moss (born September 29, 1959, Jeannette, Pennsylvania) is an American children's book author.
Work
Moss's work spans the many ages of a child. She started her first career making picture books. Amelia's Notebook was her first deviation from that format. This book is the format of a journal or diary and is penned in a black and white composition notebook. Moss herself says that she loves this format that she stumbled upon because it allows her to explore the world through a child's eyes. In fact, she says, "The things that happened to Amelia really happened to me--from the fire in the school to the marshmallows on the ceiling — though the names have been changed because my sister is mad enough at me already!"[1]
Other books in this series, which traces Amelia's life through the years, are: Amelia Writes Again, Amelia Hits the Road, Amelia Takes Command, The All New Amelia, My Notebook (with help from Amelia), Luv, Amelia, Luv Nadia, Amelia's Family Ties, Amelia Works It Ou Along with the Amelia books, Moss has written award-winning historical journals that are currently used in elementary and middle school curricula, and picture books biographies such as The Eye That Never Sleeps: How Detective Pinkerton Saved President Lincoln and Barbed Wire Baseball, which won the California Book Award and California Young Reader Medal. Her non-fiction book about Lise Meitner, The Woman Who Split the Atom, is another hybrid style, part graphic novel, part biography. Her latest book, Talia's Codebook for Mathletes, is a graphic novel that illustrates how much creativity there is in math and math
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Marissa Moss has written and illustrated over seventy books. Many of them are from her best known series, Amelia’s Notebook. When she wrote the first book twenty years ago, the format of a handwritten notebook with art on every page was so novel, editors didn’t know what to make of it. They worried librarians wouldn't know how to categorize it or booksellers where to shelve it. Now, of course, the notebook format is everywhere, most of all in the classroom.
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