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About Mel Rosenberg
Dr. Mel Rosenberg originally wanted to become a children's book author, but ended up becoming a scientist (professor of microbiology at Tel Aviv University) and inventor (of oral hygiene products and diagnostic tools). In his forties, he began writing for children. Many of his children's stories are available for free on Ourboox.com, a website and platform for authors which he co-founded with Ran Shternin. Currently, Mel teaches introductory courses in picture book writing and pursues his ambitions as a picture book author. His first traditionally-published children's book was published by Tal-May in Hebrew in 2023. He is represented by the Liza Royce Agency.Mel Rosenberg is a professor emeritus of microbiology (Tel Aviv University) who fell in love with children's books as a small child in Ottawa and now writes his own. He is co-founder of Ourboox, a web platform with over 260,000 ebooks that allows anyone to create and share flipbooks comprising text, pictures and videos.
He is represented by the Liza Royce Agency.NBN Episodes hosted by Mel:
May 11, 2024
Walking Trees
Marie-Louise Gay is an internationally-acclaimed, multi-award winning Canadian author and illustrator of over 60 books. In our interview, we celebrate…
May 4, 2024
Harry and the Highwire
In this interview, we celebrate Julie Carpenter's first picture book, Harry and the Highwire: Houdini's First Amazing Act (Laura Catalán, illustrator)…
March 30, 2024
The Imposter
In this heartwarming interview with Laura Bower, we celebrate the launch of her brand new, debut picture book, The Imposter, illustrated by Kerisa Gre…
March 24, 2024
Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten
Michelle Knudsen is the New York Times best-selling author of fifty books for young readers of all ages, including the award-winning picture books (an…
March 18, 2024
Octopus Acrobatics
Sue Fliess ("fleece") is the award-winning, bestselling author of over 50 children's books including Sadie Sprocket Builds a Rocket, How to Trap a Lep…
March 17, 2024
The Color of Sound
Emily Barth Isler is the author of AfterMath, an award-winning middle grade novel, and of the forthcoming picture book Always Enough Love. In our inte…
March 10, 2024
A Chat with a Children's Book Illustrator: Erin Kraan
Erin Kraan has illustrated over half a dozen children's books, with more on the way. In our interview we celebrate her latest illustrated picture book…
March 9, 2024
The Music in George's Head
Suzanne Slade is the Sibert Honor author of more than 170 books for children. A mechanical engineer by degree, Suzanne writes about STEM topics, fasci…
March 2, 2024
Sick!
Heather L. Montgomery writes for kids who are wild about animals, masterfully employing yuck appeal to engage young minds. Her 17 nonfiction books inc…
February 25, 2024
Get Signed
Lucinda Halpern is a literary agent with over 15 years’ experience in both the publicity and agency sides of publishing. Before founding Lucinda Liter…
February 18, 2024
Journey to the Stars
Laurie Wallmark is the award-winning author of picture book biographies of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) as well as ficti…
February 13, 2024
My Friends Maurice Sendak and Leonard Bernstein
Christopher Swann is an award-winning producer and director of documentaries, a playwright, author and editor. In our lively interview we discuss his …
February 9, 2024
Afikoman, Where'd You Go?
In this wonderfully candid conversation with children's book author Rebecca Gardyn Levington, we celebrate her new book Afikoman, Where'd You Go?: A P…
January 31, 2024
Talk to the Literary Agent
For Victoria Selvaggio, books have always played an important role in her life. From an early age, she could easily be found reading in a corner with …
January 26, 2024
What Makes A Great Picture Book?
Betsy Bird is the Collection Development Manager of Evanston Public Library and the former Youth Materials Specialist of New York Public Library. She …
January 21, 2024
Meet the Literary Agent
Today I speak to the wonderful literary agent Leslie Zampetti, who recently launched her own agency, Open Book Literary. A former librarian in special…
January 16, 2024
A Boy from Baghdad
Miriam Halahmy has published 9 novels for children and teens. Her new book A Boy from Baghdad (Green Bean Books, 2024), tells the story for children t…
January 15, 2024
Meet the Librarian
Louise Lareau is the award-winning Managing Librarian at The New York Public Library and currently leads the Children’s Center team at the Stavros Nia…
January 13, 2024
The Crab Ballet
In this fun interview, we celebrate Renée M. LaTulippe's wonderful poem picture book The Crab Ballet (Cameron Kids/Abrams, 2022) and talk about her ca…
December 22, 2023
La Mariachi
Isabel Estrada, Ph.D., is an author and speaker with an extensive background in music and education. Today we celebrate her recently-published picture…
December 18, 2023
Challah Day!
Charlotte Offsay was born in England, grew up in Boston, and currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. In our conversation, we…
December 17, 2023
Silence, Full Stop
Alina Gorban is an illustrator of 22 children's books, a cartoonist, and a teaching artist. In our interview we celebrate her new graphic novel entitl…
December 9, 2023
Don't Worry, Wuddles
Lita Judge is the award-winning author and illustrator of three dozen children’s books (!) including Flight School, Penguin Flies Home, Red Sled, Red …
November 29, 2023
Flat Cat
In this, our second interview, I talk with award-winning children's author Tara Lazar about her new picture book, Flat Cat (Flamingo Books, 2023), ill…