My sense of wonder and delight in the natural world,
and my love of children's imaginary play
inspire my art and writing.
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Rebecca is a lifelong book lover and artist. Growing up in a family of English professors, surrounded by mountains and mountains of books, oodles of paper and pencils, it is inevitable that she would want to make her own books.
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As a baby, Rebecca developed a taste for books by eating select pages of her family’s large collection of paperbacks. As a toddler, she began to write and draw in crayon on the pages of her own small collection of children’s books. Not content with the black and white drawings in her Winnie-the-Pooh books, she added watercolors to the illustrations.
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Rebecca has a BA in Art History and an MFA in Bookarts/Printmaking. After working in the commercial printing industry and museum publishing, she became an art teacher. She recently retired after over two decades as a Museum Educator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where she had the opportunity to write many educational materials for children. She also illustrated a coloring book that has been reprinted several times and given to thousands of preschool students before their visit to the museum.
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Rebecca joined SCBWI in 2016 on the recommendation of acclaimed author/illustrator Greg Pizzoli who was her teacher at a night class that she took at the University of the Arts.
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After actively participating in Eastern PA SCBWI events, working and reworking her portfolio and first manuscript, she is finally ready to take a leap of faith and begin looking for an agent who can help her realize her dreams.
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