Thomas Rhodes Rockwell (son of the American artist, Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell

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) is the author

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 of a number of books for young readers. He was the recipient of the Mark Twain Award, the California Young Reader Medal

California Young Reader Medal

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, and the Sequoyah Book Award

Sequoyah Book Award

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 for How to Eat Fried Worms

How to Eat Fried Worms

How to Eat Fried Worms is the title of a children's book written by Thomas Rockwell, first published in 1973. It was later turned into a CBS Storybreak episode in the mid-1980s, and a movie of the same name in 2006...

, which was made into a TV movie in 1985 and was filmed as a theatrical release in 2006. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York

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.

Rockwell grew up in Arlington, Vermont. His early mentors were Jim and Clara Edgarton, local farmers, on whose farm he worked gathering hay. Rockwell briefly attended Princeton University

Princeton University

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 and graduated from Bard College

Bard College

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 in 1956.

Publications (partial list)

• Rackety-bang, and other verses (1969) - Illustrated by Gail Rockwell.
• Squawwwk! (1972) - Illustrated by Gail Rockwell
• How to Eat Fried Worms
  How to Eat Fried Worms
  How to Eat Fried Worms is the title of a children's book written by Thomas Rockwell, first published in 1973. It was later turned into a CBS Storybreak episode in the mid-1980s, and a movie of the same name in 2006...
  
   (1973) - ISBN 0-440-42185-3
• The Portmanteau Book (1974) - Illustrated by Gail Rockwell.
• How to Fight a Girl (1987) (the sequel to How to Eat Fried Worms
  How to Eat Fried Worms
  How to Eat Fried Worms is the title of a children's book written by Thomas Rockwell, first published in 1973. It was later turned into a CBS Storybreak episode in the mid-1980s, and a movie of the same name in 2006...
  
  ).
• How to Get Fabulously Rich (1990).
• How to invest money

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