Julia Sarcone-Roach grew up in Arlington, Virginia. As a child she loved drawing and painting and was also an expert backyard explorer, fort-builder, and animal petter.

She once got to wear a paper plate mask in a Halloween issue of Ranger Rick.
 

Julia studied film and animation at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her award winning animated film 'Call of the Wild' has been shown in film festivals throughout the world. People have said some nice things about it too:

  • "stunningly imaginative" - Hi/Lo Film Festival
  • "fantastic... adorable.. a must see." - San Francisco Bay Guardian
  • "whimsical, surreal and gorgeously colored." - Florida Film Festival
  • "brilliant... goofy..." Now Toronto
  • "Call of the Wild combines beautiful, scratchy animation with the perfect balance of incomprehensibility and humor." - San Francisco Weekly.

Her first two illustrated picture books will be released in 2009. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York where she spends her time painting, writing and plotting her eventual return to the glamorous, high-stakes world of paper plate mask modeling.

 

Reviews of 'Incredible Inventions':

  • Sarcone-Roach provides active, splashy, illustrations on every page that unify the book visually and contribute their own humorous touches. - Kirkus Reviews
  • The mixed-media artwork's well-designed compositions add energy... - Booklist
  • Sarcone-Roach unites the different poems with double-page illustrations, which vary in style from painterly to cartoon. Quick sketches and notes in the margins of the contents page suggest that the inventing is still in progress. This anthology does an excellent job of uniting the creativity of words, art, and innovation. - School Library Journal

Julia Sarcone-Roach's first picture book with Knopf will be published in 2009.  THE SECRET PLAN is a picture book written and illustrated by Julia and it features a young elephant and three kittens that all share a duplex with their parents. 

They are constantly having their fun ruined by the intrusion of lunch, dinner and worst of all bedtime.  The group of friends devise a secret plan to avoid the distractions.