Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Amy Krouse Rosenthal was an American writer of both adult and children's books, as well as a short filmmaker and radio host. She is best known for the memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, her picture books, and the film project The Beckoning of Lovely. Between 2005 and her death in 2017 she published more than 30 children's books, including Plant a Kiss and Little Miss, Big Sis. She also contributed to Chicago's NPR station WBEZ and to the TED conference.