Through the Hidden Door
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Among her bestselling picture book titles are Voyage to the Bunny Planet, Noisy Nora, and Read to Your Bunny. She is best known for the Max and Ruby series, which depicts the adventures of sibling bunnies. Many of her series also feature animal characters, including McDuff (illustrated by Susan Jeffers), Edward Almost Ready, Yoko, and the Mother Goose books edited by Iona Opie. In addition to her picture books, Wells has written several historical fiction and mystery/suspense novels for young adults.
In 2002, the Max and Ruby series was adapted as an animated television series, and has become a popular show for young children. Her picture book Timothy Goes to School was adapted for TV in 2000, and several of her other books have been produced as short films. Wells’s work has also been recommended on innumerable lists, including the New York Times annual Best Illustrated Books round-up and several American Library Association Notable Book lists. She has won countless awards, such as the Parents’ Choice Foundation Award and multiple School Library Journal Best Book of the Year awards.
In addition to being a prolific writer and illustrator, Wells is a keen advocate of literacy programs. She was a speaker for the national literacy initiative the “Read to Your Bunny” campaign.
Wells has two daughters: Victoria, who is now an editor at Bloomsbury Publishing, and Marguerite, an organic farmer who teaches at Cornell University. She also has five granddaughters: Zoe, Eleanor, Frances, Phoebe, and Petra. The girls are sources of unending fun and inspiration for the never-ending stories that come out of the Wells studio.
Rosemary Wells at age three, in 1945.
Wells, at age four, poses for the camera.
Wells’s parents, James and Helen Warwick, in the early 1950s.
Wells’s father, James Warwick, a Hollywood screen actor, in a pith helmet in Inside the Lines, which premiered in 1930.
Wells’s mother, Helen Warwick, a dancer in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, in 1925.
Wells horseback riding in Nevada in 1958.
Wells (right) and school friend at the US Open in Forest Hills, New York, with tennis star Alex Olmedo after he had just won his match.
Wells, at age twenty, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Wells’s husband, Tom Wells, an architect, in 1965.
Wells at age twenty-five.
In 2002, while on a research trip for her young adult novel Red Moon at Sharpsburg, Wells visited a Civil War reenactment at the Antietam battlefield.
Wells at a children’s bookstore in Portland, Oregon, in October 1985.
Wells with her Westie, Sophie, in 1990.
Wells with her husband, Tom, and their two dogs, in 1991.
Wells in her studio in Greenwich, CT.
Wells’s four granddaughters with her daughter Victoria.
Wells with her granddaughter Frances Wells Arms in 2010.
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