From Here to There by Vivian Kirkfield, has received: • a Junior Library Guild Selection • a starred review from Kirkus: “These innovations in transportation should inspire readers to go far….Educators will also delight in the hefty...
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...
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
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...
