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• Born and raised in Rockville, Connecticut
• In grade school, really liked to draw and make up stories • Studied art at Rhode Island School of Design; served on the RISD Board of Trustees for 19 years • Art director and consultant for educational publishing companies • Champions visual learning strategies to help children become more successful students • Co-founded Ligature to develop high-quality educational materials in a variety of curriculum areas, including Social Studies, Reading, Science, and Math • Visual learning author on school math textbook programs teams for elementary, middle, and high school • First of 63 MathStart titles, The Best Bug Parade, published, HarperCollins, 1996 •MathStart named Top Ten Nonfiction Series for Young Children by Booklist magazine, a publication of the American Library Association • MathStart books receive many honors, including awards from The Bank Street College of Education and The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio; Less Than Zero named a "Best Book of the Year" by Science Books & Films magazine • The Main Street Kids’ Club: A MathStart Musical began touring in 2010 • Member of the Advisory Council to the Arts in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education • First four of 16 titles of the Stuart J. Murphy’s I See I Learn series published by Charlesbridge, 2010 •I See I Learn books available in Spanish, Fall 2011 •I See I Learn books featured in Book Links magazine, a publication of the American LIbrary Association, March 2011 • I See I Learn at School, a comprehensive early childhood educational program that includes books, teacher guides, videos and games,launched by Pearson Education, 2013 • Sales MathStart top 10 million copies in 2014. • Lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and Tuscany, Italy, with wife Nancy. Grandchildren Jack, and Madeleine and Camille have all his books |
