23/09/2026
Some storytellers arrive with a lecture. Rosemary Wells arrived with a confession. "I certainly was drawing pictures before I could even speak," she told our Elementary School Students, and in that single sentence the room understood that they were in the presence of someone for whom art has never been a choice, but a vocation.
Over a career spanning more than five decades, Ms. Wells has written and illustrated more than 125 books for young readers.
What she offered our students was a philosophy. A talent, she reminded them, is a gift from God.
Drawing on "The Seven Steps of Writing Success", Ms. Wells walked our young writers through the quiet discipline behind every good story.
It was a lesson in craft, and equally a lesson in character. We are profoundly grateful to Ms. Wells for reminding our students that every book begins, quite simply, with a story, and that each of them has one worth telling.