Robert Weinstock
{{Short description|American children's book author and illustrator}}
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| language = English
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| pseudonym = Rowboat Watkins
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|4|08}}
| birth_place = Pennsylvania, U.S.
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| occupation = Writer
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| alma_mater = Stanford University
| nationality = American
| period = 2004 – current
| genre = Children's books, literature
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| spouse = Dana Stevens
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| children = Alice (Pearl) Weinstock
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| website = {{URL|http://www.rowboatwatkins.com/}}
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Robert Weinstock (born April 8, 1967, in Philadelphia) is an American children's book author and illustrator. Some of his books were published under the pseudonym of Rowboat Watkins.{{Cite web|title=Library of Congress Authority File|url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014096470.html}}
Awards
In 2010 he received the Sendak fellowship.
His book Rude Cakes won an Ezra Jack Keats Honor in 2016. Pete With No Pants was reviewed by Kate Quealy-Gainer who writes that it is a lovely, absurd little tale with humor both "jubilant and sardonic" and "it's bound to be a familiar situation to many a carefree, nudist kid and their exasperated, clothes-demanding parent".
Accident
On October 7, 2003, Weinstock was hit by a truck resulting in serious injuries and loss of much of his ability to taste. An article in The New York Times detailed his experiences.
Published works
- Gordimer Byrd's Reminder (2004)
- Giant Meatball (2008)
- Food Hates You, Too and Other Poems (2009)
- Can You Dig It? (2010)
- Rude Cakes (2015) (as "Rowboat Watkins")
- translation: Le petit gâteau qui ne disait pas merci (2015) (as "Rowboat Watkins")
- Pete With No Pants (2017). (as "Rowboat Watkins")
- translation: Bu chuan ku zi de pi te (2018) (as "Rowboat Watkins")
- Big Bunny (2018) (as "Rowboat Watkins")
- Most Marshmallows (2019) (as "Rowboat Watkins")
- Mabel : a Mermaid Fable (2020) (as "Rowboat Watkins")
Illustrated works
- I'm Not (2010)
- Tiny Cedric by Sally Lloyd Jones (as "Rowboat Watkins")
References
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{{cite journal |last1= Quealy-Gainer|first1= Kate|date= 2017|title= Pete With No Pants by Rowboat Watkins|url= |journal=Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books |volume= 70|issue= 9|pages= 430–431|doi= 10.1353/bcc.2017.0396|s2cid= 201711867|access-date=}}
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Category:American children's writers