Rosemary Mosco
Author
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Rosemary Mosco is a cartoonist and writer working in science communication. She is best known for the science-and-nature comic Bird and Moon, and her graphic novels about nature. She has also published a number of books for children, including a best-selling travel guide.[1]
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| Born | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Author |
| Alma mater | McGill University, UVM |
| Genre | Popular science |
| Subject | Biology, space, wonder |
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Personal life
Mosco was raised in Ottawa, Ontario, where she would go hiking with her mom and then draw pictures of the wildlife they saw when they got back home.[2] She holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology from McGill University[3] and is a graduate of the Field Naturalist Program from the University of Vermont.[3] She worked in communication and marketing positions at nonprofits such as Mass Audubon[4] and the National Park Service.[3] She has birds as pets.[5]
Writing
Mosco's work has been featured in The Guardian and the Huffington Post,[6][7] on the radio program Science Friday,[8] and by the Audubon Society.[9]
Her early webcomics include Wild Toronto[10] and (with Maris Wicks) Wild City Comics.[11] As of 2021, she writes the webcomic Bird and Moon.[12] A collection of her comics titled Birding Is My Favorite Video Game was published in 2018 as a book, and included on the ALA's 2019 list of Great Graphic Novels for Teens.[13] She published the graphic novels Solar Systems: Our Place In Space, and Expedition Backyard, aimed at middle school students.
In 2018, she co-authored The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid, an illustrated guide to curious places cataloged in Atlas Obscura. This became a New York Times bestseller.[14]
Mosco has published several nonfiction picture books since 2021, including Butterflies are Pretty…Gross! in 2021,[15] Flowers are Pretty...Weird! in 2022,[16] and There are No Ants in This Book in 2024.
In 2021, she published the illustrated nonfiction book A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching,[17] and in 2022, she published Why City Pigeons Are Worth Watching in the New York Times.[18]
Features
In 2020, the PBS series NATURE featured Mosco in the video The Seriously Silly Science Cartoons Of Rosemary Mosco.
Awards
In 2021, Mosco won a Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society for Bird and Moon.[19]
