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About

Ellen Rooney

Ellen Rooney is an award-winning designer, artist and children’s book illustrator. Her textural mixed media artwork combines many traditional art techniques, like pencil drawing, painting, printmaking and collage, often combined with digital techniques. She is the winner of the 2021 Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize for Grandmother School. Originally from Massachusetts, she now lives in the southern Okanagan Valley in British Columbia.

 

Books by Ellen Rooney

Jellyfish Scientist: Maude Delap and Her Mesmerizing Medusas

by (author) Michelle Cusolito
illustrated by Ellen Rooney

What Inspires

by (author) Alison Hughes
illustrated by Ellen Rooney

What Inspires

by (author) Alison Hughes
illustrated by Ellen Rooney

Country Baby

by (author) Laurie Elmquist
illustrated by Ellen Rooney

At the Poles

by (author) David Elliott
illustrated by Ellen Rooney

What to Bring

by (author) Lorna Schultz Nicholson
illustrated by Ellen Rooney

Astronomer Who Questioned Everything, The

The Story of Maria Mitchell

by (author) Laura Alary
illustrated by Ellen Rooney

A Park Connects Us

by (author) Sarah Nelson
illustrated by Ellen Rooney

Lights Day and Night

The Science of How Light Works

by (author) Susan Hughes
illustrated by Ellen Rooney

Sounds All Around

The Science of How Sound Works

by (author) Susan Hughes
illustrated by Ellen Rooney

Grandmother School

by (author) Rina Singh
illustrated by Ellen Rooney

Grandmother School Read-Along

by (author) Rina Singh
illustrated by Ellen Rooney
read by Kirstie Hudson