Sheila Greenwald

Sheila Greenwald (born May 26, 1934) is an American writer and illustrator of books for children and young adults. She is known best for Rosy Cole’s Great American Guilt Club and other Rosy Cole books, and has won awards including the Parents' Choice Award, and the Santa Monica Library's Green Prize for sustainable literature.

Personal life

Greenwald was born on May 26, 1934, in New York City to parents Julius and Florence (née Friedman) Greenwald, and grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A Gale biographical entry lists Greenwald's religion as Jewish.

Greenwald is married to George E. Green, a cardiac surgeon, and has two children, Ben and Sam.

Career Greenwald is a writer and illustrator of children's picture books, books for young readers, young adult books, and magazine articles. She has written and illustrated 30 books of her own which received positive reviews, as well as illustrating for magazines. She began her career as an illustrator in 1956 and her writing career in 1962 with, A Metropolitan Love Story. In 1971, with the encouragement of her editor, she began writing books that she had once only illustrated. In an article written by Greenwald for Publishers Weekly in 2018, she wrote, "The Rosy Cole books", edited by Melanie Kroupa, "not only gave me the opportunity to create humor and character by juxtaposing text with illustrations, but allowed me to vent opinions on competition, sexual precocity, materialism, conformity to peer pressure, and more".

Greenwald has created illustrations for over seventy books for both adults and children written by others, among them the classic, The Pink Motel, by Carol Ryrie Brink. In the July, 1966 issue of Harper's Magazine she wrote, My Life Story, as well as illustrating additional articles, which were not her own. All of her published work has been written and illustrated by Greenwald with the exception of two, Bossy Flossie, books which were illustrated by Pierre Collet-Derby.

Her work for children, both text and illustration has been donated to the De Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the McCain Library and Archives at The University of Southern Mississippi. and has contributed to Cricket Magazine, The New York Times, Gourmet Magazine, and The Reporter Magazine.

Books This is a complete list of books written by Greenwald. 1960 - A Metropolitan Love Story 1971 - Willie Bryant and The Flying Otis 1972 - The Hot Day 1972 - Amanda Snap 1972 - Mat Pit And The Tunnel Tenants 1974 - The Secret Museum 1977 - The Secret In Miranda’s Closet 1977 - The Mariah Delany Lending Library Disaster 1978 - The Atrocious Two 1978 - All the Way To Wits End 1980 - It All Began With Jane Eyre 1981 - Give Us A Great Big Smile Rosy Cole An ALA notable book 1982 - Blissful Joy And The SAT’s Atlantic Monthly Press 1983 - Will the Real Gertrude Hollings Please Stand Up 1984 - Valentine Rosy Atlantic Monthly Press 1985 - Rosy Cole’s Great American Guilt Club Parent's Choice Selection 1985 1987 - Alvin Webster’s Surefire Plan For Success And How It Failed 1988 - Write On Rosy 1989 - Rosy’s Romance 1990 - Mariah Delany’s Author Of the Month Club 1991 - Here's Hermione 1992 - Rosy Cole Discovers America 1993 - My Fabulous New Life 1994 - Rosy Cole, She Walks In Beauty 1997 - Rosy Cole, She Grows and Graduates - 2000 - Stucksville 2003 - Rosy Cole’s Worst Ever Best Yet Tour Of New York City 2006 - Rosy Cole’s Memoir Explosion, A Heartbreaking Story about Losing Friends, Annoying Family, and Ruining Romance 2010 - Watch Out World Rosy Cole Is Going Green 2017 - Bossy Flossie Biz Whiz 2017 - Bossy Flossie, The Secret To Success #2

Awards 1981 - American Library Association - Notable Children's Book - Give Us a Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole 1983 - Junior Library Guild Selection - Will the Real Gertrude Hollings Please Stand Up? 1985 - Parents' Choice Award - Rosy Cole's Great American Guilt Club 1987 - New York Public Library "One of 100 Best Books for Children" - Alvin Webster's Surefire Plan for Success 1989 - Junior Library Guild Selection - Rosy's Romance 1990 - Junior Library Guild Selection - Mariah Delany's Author-of-the-Month Club 1997 - Junior Library Guild Selection - Rosy Cole: She Grows and Graduates 2003 - Junior Library Guild Selection - Rosy Cole's Worst Ever Best Yet Tour of New York City 2006 - Junior Library Guild Selection - Rosy Cole's Memoir Explosion, a Heartbreaking Story About Losing Friends, Annoying Family, and Ruining Romance 2007 - Bank Street College of Education - "One of the Ten Best Children's Books of the Year" - Rosy Cole's Memoir Explosion, a Heartbreaking Story About Losing Friends, Annoying Family, and Ruining Romance 2011 - The Santa Monica Library Green Prize For Sustainable Literature - Watch out World, Rosy Cole is Going Green (re-released by National Geographic Learning, August 2015)