History Creator / RosemaryWells

* AnAesop: Usually, though not always.

-->--'''Rosemary Wells, from a Japan Times Interview'''
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* NamesTheSame: There are two characters with the name Grace who appeared in Timothy Goes To School.
** Grace the Bunny from the original book.
** Grace the Cat who debuted in the Yoko & Friends series and later showed up in the other books featuring Timothy
** There are two characters name Felix. There's Felix the Guinea Pig from the Emily series and "Felix & Fiona" and there's the bunny named Felix from the Bunny Planet series.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: While Yoko's mother is commonly seen happy and is never seen sad or angry, in the book "Yoko's Show-And-Tell" [[http://i.imgur.com/QFOtnSV.png?1 she actually gets stern with Yoko]] by telling her no in a more annoyed or disgusted tone due to Yoko wanting to bring her crystal doll, Miki, to school. Unlike the episode from the AnimatedAdaptation "The Taketombo" where she isn't mad at the Franks for breaking the taketombo (due to it being made of wood and easy to repair with glue). Yoko is afraid of showing the broken doll to her mother due to the glass being difficult to repair. Yoko's mother does forgive her after Yoko finally reveals the broken remains of Miki. Instead of having Yoko and her mother end up repairing it by themselves, they head to a hospital to give to a doctor who fixes Miki.

* BilingualBonus: In the page margins of ''Yoko Writes Her Name'', the names for common objects are printed in English and Japanese. The illustrations also have Yoko's name in hiragana (ようこ) and the names of a few of her American classmates in katakana, including Angelo (アンジエロ), Henso (ヘンソー), and Frank (フランク).

* BilingualBonus: In the page margins of ''Yoko Writes Her Name'', the names for common objects are printed in English and Japanese.

* BilingualBonus: In the page margins of ''Yoko Writes Her Name'', the Japanese words for several common objects and their English translations appear.

* AdultFear: In the Yoko book "Yoko Finds Her Way", Yoko and her mother are preparing for their trip to Japan. However, when Yoko decides to buy a red bean ice cream to keep her occupied while waiting for the plane, Yoko's mother ends up falling asleep, Yoko then decides to head to the bathroom to clean herself up, and later tries to find her mother but ends up getting lost after taking the wrong door. Yoko then finds a female police officer who helps her find her mother. When her mother wakes up, she starts getting very worried and has to search everywhere for her daughter including the food court until she finds the airline pilot. In the end, they reunite and prepare for their plane to takeoff.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Her "Kindergartors" series. She had said that she had gotten tired of drawing bunnies.
** She was the author (but not the illustrator) of the 2012 children's book "Following Grandfather". Unlike her other books such as Max and Ruby and the Yoko Series. This is a chapter book and deals with a female young mouse dealing and coping with the death of her grandfather. It's a lot more serious and sadder compared to her other children's books featuring anthropomorphic animals.

* PuppyLove: [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hfDZzUMdL._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg It's been implied]] [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C3VM7DV7L._SX317_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg in her books starring Yoko or Timothy that they both have a crush on each other]]. It helps that they are both best friends. Especially in the {{Creator/Nelvana}} animated adaptation. The most notable is the Yoko and Friends book "Be My Valentine", where it ends with Yoko and Timothy trading their valentines candy (Yoko trading Mount Fuji drops for Timothy's candy heart) during their bus ride home on Valentine's Day. [[https://i.imgur.com/GKghW7H.png Yoko's reaction to Timothy discovering Yoko's valentine to him is downright adorable.]]

** Claude is seen doing this in the Timothy Goes to School book and in the earlier episodes of WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool.

** One of her earliest books written was "Benjamin & Tulip" from 1973 which deals with a duo of {{Tsundere}} raccoons causing fights with each other with their [[http://static1.squarespace.com/static/512283dde4b03a5603c9f151/512283dde4b03a5603c9f15a/54db6adde4b0fa0ca47ed75c/1423665886010/benjamintulip004.jpg?format=500w aunt worried about the two]]. The book contains lines such as "I'm going to beat you up." and "You're crushing for a brushing!". The book was also pretty violent such as [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmy5urpyRR1ql4tg0o1_r1_1280.jpg Benjamin attempting to throw a big watermelon onto Tulip]], [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/cf/f4/e2/cff4e2f2d38414d5b2f3b0d170b19a98.jpg spitting watermelon seeds at each other]], [[https://yearofrandomreading.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/img_1316.jpg?w=300&h=225 Benjamin throwing the same watermelon onto Tulip's face]], and [[https://yearofrandomreading.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/img_1315.jpg?w=300&h=220 Tulip throwing mud all over Benjamin]]. In modern books, she avoids showing any of her characters showing or attempting any types of violence.

* PuppyLove: [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hfDZzUMdL._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg It's been implied]] [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C3VM7DV7L._SX317_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg in her books starring Yoko or Timothy that they both have a crush on each other]]. Helps that they are both best friends. Especially in the {{Creator/Nelvana}} animated adaptation. The most notable is the Yoko and Friends book "Be My Valentine", where it ends with Yoko and Timothy trading their valentines candy (Yoko trading Mount Fuji drops for Timothy's candy heart) during their bus ride home on Valentine's Day. [[https://i.imgur.com/GKghW7H.png Yoko's reaction to Timothy discovering Yoko's valentine to him is downright adorable.]]

* PuppyLove: [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hfDZzUMdL._SX321_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg It's been implied]] [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C3VM7DV7L._SX317_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg in her books starring Yoko or Timothy that they both have a crush on each other]]. Helps that they are both best friends. Especially in the {{Creator/Nelvana}} animated adaptation.

* AuthorAvatar: Miss Jenkins, Miss Cribbage, and Miss Harmony all represent Wells herself.

Rosemary Wells (born January 29, 1943) is a prolific creator of children's picture books and has also written for older audiences. Her two most popular franchises, which have also been adapted for television, are ''Literature/MaxAndRuby'' and ''WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool''. Some other popular titles by her include the ''Bunny Planet'' books, the ''Edward the Unready'' series (later rereleased as eBooks under the banner "Edward Almost Ready"), the ''[=McDuff=]'' series and ''Emily's First 100 Days of Kindergarten''. Her nonfiction titles have included ''Help Children Cope With Divorce'' and ''Getting to Know You: Rodgers and Hammerstein Favorites''. Some of her works titled at older audiences include ''Mary on Horseback'' and ''The Miraculous Tale of the Two Maries''. In all, she has written well over 100 titles. Her most recent series are the ''Kindergators'', about a group of young alligators, the ''Sophie'' books, about a high-spirited two-year-old mouse, and ''Felix & Fiona'', which revives her Felix the guinea pig character, but also adds a new friend for him named Fiona.

* AnimatedAdaptation: Those that haven't been made into television series have often been adapted as read aloud storybooks for home video, sometimes with animation. Most of these came from Weston Wood Studios who had a long history with Wells and her books where they previously did audio cassettes for her older ones back in the 70's and 80's.

* RetroUniverse: The Max and Ruby series appears to be set sometime in between the 1940's and 1950's mainly since Wells appears to have fond childhood memories of that era.

** While the Literature/MaxAndRuby series is still ongoing since 1979, the setting would sometimes be a mix between the 1940s and late 70s since the characters still use old fashioned radio to listen to music and a radio show. But the characters are never seen owning any television sets. Which is odd since in one of the later books and a couple episodes of the animated series would sometimes show a character owning a handheld video game called the Game Bunny.
** In Yoko & Friends, Yoko series and the animated version of WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool appears to be set during the late 90s but the characters are dressed in clothes that were mostly common during the 70s and 60s while they still own 50s and 60s style cars. Television sets are also absent.

** Muriel the kitten who showed up in the book "The Halloween Parade"