Hazel's Amazing Mother [Paperback]

A heartwarming story about the power of a mother's love from the bestselling creator of Max & Ruby.

Hazel is out for a walk with her beloved doll Eleanor. But when she makes a wrong turn, she encounters some kids who are up to no good. Fortunately, Hazel's amazing mother is there to rescue her--and set the bullies straight--just in the nick of time.

A beguiling book with a nonsensical streak that will make children look again and laugh. --Booklist A beguiling book with a nonsensical streak that will make children look again and laugh. --BooklistBorn in New York City, Rosemary Wells grew up in a house filled with books, dogs, and nineteenth-century music. Her childhood years were spent between her parents' home near Red Bank, New Jersey, and her grandmother's rambling stucco house on the Jersey Shore. Most of her sentimental memories, both good and bad, stem from that place and time. Her mother was a dancer in the Russian Ballet, and her father a playwright and actor. Mrs. Wells says, Both my parents flooded me with books and stories. My grandmother took me on special trips to the theater and museums in New York.

When I was two years old I began to draw and they saw right away the career that lay ahead of me and encouraged me every day of my life. As far back as I can remember, I did nothing but draw.

A self-proclaimed poor student, Wells attended the Museum School in Boston after finishing high school. It was, she recalls, a bastion of abstract expressionism an art form that brought to my mind things I don't like to eat, fabrics that itch against the skin, divorce, paper cuts, and metallic noises.

Without her degree, she left school at 19, married, and began a fledgling career as a book designer with a Boston textbook publisher. When her husband, Tom, applied to the Columbia School of Architecture two years later, the couple moved to New York, where she began her career in children's books working as a designer l£·