The book launch for the Mysterious Messenger was last weekend. I gave a short presentation on my process, read the first chapter, drew one of the characters, and answered some questions from Ellen Daniel Rogers for The Mississippi Book Festival...
The Mysterious Messenger comes out Tuesday, July 21 and I will be participating in some events to promote it! July 25, 12pm central Time, Lemuria Bookstore Facebook Live: Book launch for the Mysterious Messenger. 45 min presentation including a...
Macmillan has made a great study guide for The Mysterious Messenger to share with students. It can be downloaded here: http://gilbertford.com/Mysterious_Messenger_Discussion_Guide.pdf
In 2013, I enrolled in graduate school at Vermont College of Fine Arts in the Writing for Children and Young Adults Program. Although I initially was interested in writing only picture books, the teachers encouraged me to begin a novel and turn...
How The Cookie Crumbled received an Irma Black Honor from Bank Street College last Thursday. Tara Lazar’s 7ate9 was the big winner. Here are the Cooke Prize and Irma Black honorees. Every person being honored had to make a speech...
Itch! by Anita Sanchez, has received the following recognition this year: • Junior Library Guild Selection• Finalist for 2019 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Middle Grade Science Book category•Chicago Public...
Rotten! by Anita Sanchez will be released Tuesday, January 22. It is a picture book/chapter book hybrid targeting 3rd-6th graders (and even adults!), and covers all different aspects of decomposition. The text is light-hearted, with clever...
A few years ago The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring was selected to be on the Washington State book list. This meant that students all across the state were reading my book along with other fabulous picture books, until one book...
Alice Across America by Sarah Glenn Marsh and illustrated by me, is available for purchase as of February 2020. It’s a non-fiction story about Alice Ramsey and her cross country trip in a 1909 Maxwell automobile with her friends, becoming...
