Sheila Greenwald

Greenwald has created illustrations for over seventy books for both adults and children written by others, among them the classic, The Pink Motel, by Carol Ryrie Brink. In the July, 1966 issue of Harper's Magazine she wrote, My Life Story, as well as illustrating additional articles, which were not her own. All of her published work has been written and illustrated by Greenwald with the exception of two, Bossy Flossie, books which were illustrated by Pierre Collet-Derby.

Greenwald is a writer and illustrator of children's picture books, books for young readers, young adult books, and magazine articles. She has written and illustrated 30 books of her own which received positive reviews, as well as illustrating for magazines. She began her career as an illustrator in 1956 and her writing career in 1962 with, A Metropolitan Love Story. In 1971, with the encouragement of her editor, she began writing books that she had once only illustrated. In an article written by Greenwald for Publishers Weekly in 2018, she wrote, "The Rosy Cole books", edited by Melanie Kroupa, "not only gave me the opportunity to create humor and character by juxtaposing text with illustrations, but allowed me to vent opinions on competition, sexual precocity, materialism, conformity to peer pressure, and more".

Sheila Greenwald (born May 26, 1934) is an American writer and illustrator of books for children and young adults. She is known best for Rosy Cole’s Great American Guilt Club (1985) and other Rosy Cole books, and has won awards including the Parents' Choice Award, and the Santa Monica Library's Green Prize for sustainable literature.

Greenwald was born (May 26, 1934) in New York City to parents, Julius and Florence (née Friedman) Greenwald and grew up in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She graduated from the High School of Music & Art as an art major and from Sarah Lawrence College as a literature major. Greenwald is married to George E. Green, a cardiac surgeon, and has two children, Ben and Sam.