“You have an immediate intimacy when you read somebody’s journal,” Moss said.
The journal format is part of what has kept the Amelia series vital for 20 years.
After American Girl was bought by Mattel, the rights were then sold to Simon & Shuster, who allowed Amelia to transition into middle school. American Girl bought the series’ backlist from Tricycle for an unprecedented $3 million and began publishing two new titles per year. When American Girl published an excerpt of “Amelia’s Notebook,” the piece generated more mail than any other story in the magazine’s history. The more than 30 other titles in the series include “Amelia’s Science Fair Disaster,” “Amelia’s Friendship Survival Guide” and “Amelia’s Boy Survival Guide.” Moss is the author of more than 50 books, including “Rose’s Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression,” “Mira’s Diary: Home Sweet Rome” and many non-series books. It is accessible in that it shows anything is possible when writing one’s own diary: writing out of the lines drawing out of the edges, illustrating as well as writing a daily account of one’s life including happy, sad, uneasy, optimistic, frightening, big, small parts of a day.” “It is our go-to pick when teachers are talking about diaries and journals and when young readers come in asking for them. “‘Amelia’s Notebook’ has been on our shelves for years,” said Valerie Lewis, co-owner of Hicklebee’s, a children’s bookstore in San Jose. Subsequent installments in the series have been designated a Children’s Choice by the Children’s Book Council and won a Parent’s Guide Fiction Award. She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.“Amelia’s Notebook” earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly and received a 1996 Choices Award from The Association of Booksellers for Children. No More? published by Houghton Mifflin in 1988.
She, like most artists and authors, received many rejections before finally breaking into print with her book, One, Two, Three & Four. She studied art history in graduate school for two years and then attended the California College of Arts and Crafts to study the publishing world. She attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated in 1979. Marissa Moss first submitted a book for publication at the age of nine. In fact, she says, "The things that happened to Amelia really happened to me-from the fire in the school to the marshmallows on the ceiling - though the names have been changed because my sister is mad enough at me already!" Personal life Moss herself says that she loves this format that she stumbled upon because it allows her to explore the world through a child's eyes. Amelia's Notebook was her first deviation from that format, this book is in the format of a journal and hand-written by Moss in a black and white composition notebook. Moss's started at first making picture books.
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