About the Author

When reading books to children in a nearby park, Author Rochelle O’Neal Thorpe met a Nanny from Somalia who admired her stories.  After a brief conversation she discovered this young womangraduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School with her eldest son.  Rochelle later learned about her struggles adjusting to life in America after leaving her war-torn country.  Being inspired by this young woman Rochelle decided to write a story especially for her and other children from this region of the world.

Rochelle has a Master of Arts degree from Emerson College, School of Communications and a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Isenberg School of Management.  She also minored in Chinese Language and Literature.  She has studied Japanese at Harvard Extension School and Showa Boston.  She is conversant in Chinese, Japanese and Spanish.

Catalog of Works; Captain Remarkable (2004), Gabe and the Park (2006), Gabe and the Bike (2006), The Doll at the Christmas Bazaar(2008), The Tales of Teacups (2010), The Tales of Cranes, (2010)Gabe’s Nantucket Adventure: Daffodil Dogs and Cars (2010), Gabe and Storybooks (2010), Dragon Valentine (2012), Dolly’s Winter Surprise (2011), My Uncle the Porter, Snowman in Central Park (2011), and Aisha’s Gift (2012). 

She hopes all her works will be enjoyed by children around the world.

About the Artist

Artist Anna Leliwa has created the beautiful illustrations for Aisha’s Gift and Dolly’s Winter Surprise.  

In 2000, Anna graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with Masters Degree in Fine Arts from the Department of Fine Art Restoration. As a Conservator of Fine Art, Anna gained her experiences while working with different painting techniques such as oil painting, acrylic, pastel and watercolor. This knowledge and skills help her to create illustrations which could be easily "read" by children.

Making the illustrations for children's book is like retelling the story. Anna love to focus on all backstage details and characters. She is finding herself really connected to the characters she illustrates.

Anna now lives in Boston and is happily married to Charles and a mother to a Helenka.

New Books 2012

 

 

This year has been a wonderful one with the release of my new books.

This Spring you can take flight with "My Uncle the Porter" about me and my Uncle Wesley who was an airport porter who made me feel safe on an airplane.

Dragon Valentines was released just in time to introduce reader to the Chinese Year of the Dragon!

Dolly's Winter Surprise will give you a warm heart this winter as you learn about a little who is given knitting lessons from her grandmother and when she arrives home from her visit she gets a big surprise!

See our web site http://rochelleonealthorpe.com 

Gabe's Nantucket Adventure Crazy Mike's Video App iTunes Review

iTunes Apps at the Apple Apps Store & Event

Wiggles Press has published my books in iTunes... My Favorite Shoes is a freebie, Gabe's Nantucket Adventure, and several others have launched February 18.

I am looking forward to The Tales of Teacups being an iTunes App this Month as well.

April 9, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 12 Noon I am having my first book signing for The Tales of Teacups.

Details are:

Made-by-Me

1685 Mass. Avenue

Cambridge, MA  02138

Tel: 617 345-8111

$25 for a book and a teacup to design.

Saturday, April 9th from 10 a.m. to 12 Noon.

cost includes a signed book and teacup to design.

Made-By-Me is a pottery studio for families and children and they can enjoy capturing their own memories with a creative design that they can paint on a mug and have finished to preserve as a keepsake.



The Tales of Teacups Is in Pring: Soon to be in Chinese & Japanese

The Tales of Teacup has been completed and is available in Print...

Friends from Asia have helped me to translate it into Chinese and Japanese, and it should be on sale in Mid October.

For a look inside go to Amazon.com

Tales of Teacup - the way of the teaparty

Unfortunately after receiving a beautiful cover for the Tales of Teacups, the artist has not completed the book, I will be using a new artist for the book and will post a new cover within weeks. I had hoped this book would be ready for Mother's Day and to be sipping tea in light of it's success!

I feel like I have been thrown overboard... let's hope the new direction will be as delightful.

Tea Party Time

As a young girl my mother and auntie Betty sent all of us girls to charm classes at Kathryn Lipes Department Store. The class was called White Gloves and Party Manners and we all celebrated at class end with a tea party and fashion show wearing our party dresses and gloves.

Today I discovered a web site that brought this memory home.

I am so excited about the work being done by Allison M. Healy to make the book The Tales of Teacups a real prise for little girls and their families.