2010 Presenters
Rose Lewis
Rose Lewis is the author of the New York Times bestseller, I Love You Like Crazy Cakes, which Kirkus Reviews said was “destined to become a classic” in a starred review. She is also the author of its award-winning sequel, Every Year on Your Birthday, which Booklist, in a starred review, described as a “loving portrait of a single mother and an adopted child [that] gently accentuates the importance of incorporating the child’s culture into her new life.”
An adoption advocate and mother of eleven-year-old Ming, Lewis has now written a new picture book that celebrates Chinese culture and its influence on history and on the modern world. As with her previous books, Orange Peel’s Pocket “again handles the subject of an adopted Chinese girl with tenderness, providing both a simple history lesson and a way for adoptive parents to discuss the search for their child's background.” (School Library Journal).
An accomplished photographer and former award-winning producer for WCVB-TV, Lewis is currently director of communications for Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Needham. She received her master’s in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester in New York. She lives in Massachusetts.
LINKS:
Publisher's page on Orange Peel's Pocket
Business Week interviews Lewis
Critical praise of Lewis' first book, I Love You Like Crazy Cakes
Review of I Love You Like Crazy Cakes from The New York Times
Reviews of Lewis' second book, Every Year on Your Birthday
