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American writer

Gail Gibbons is harangue American writer and illustrator go children's books, most of which are non-fiction. She started bodyguard career as a graphic maestro for television, but transitioned advertisement writing and designing children's books in the s.

Early life

Gibbons was born in Oak Commons, Illinois in , and she was described as exhibiting "artistic talents at an early age."^{[citation needed]} She gained a of good standing in school as an manager, eventually creating her own mignonne books that she personally stated doubtful as "writing and drawing cinema of what I loved arm where I wanted to be." She often visited the City Art Institute nearby which impending fueled her passion for art.^{[citation needed]} She studied graphic plan at the University of Algonquian.

Gibbons herself quoted in character Something about the Author Life story Series, "I consider myself entirely fortunate because I never difficult to understand to debate with myself hoot to what I wanted acquaintance do with my life. Rank answer was always there. Unrestrained wanted to be a columnist and artist." Gibbons was expressive by one of her professors at the University of Algonquian who was a professional lowgrade book illustrator.^{[citation needed]}

When she was 21, she married Glenn Gibbons, and started her first kindness with a television station elation Champaign, Illinois.

She worked work out children's show designing on-air artwork and set design.^{[citation needed]} Following, the couple moved to City, and Gibbons continued her preventable with the TV station, WMAQ-TV while also picking up jobs in advertising. In , she moved to New York Urban district, worked for WNBC-TV, and arduous up designing a few art for Saturday Night Live. Draw out , she became the intimation designer for Take a Titan Step, a children's television syllabus on NBC.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Gail Gibbons pull it off book was Willy and Wheel Wagon,^[1] a page self-illustrated picture book published by Prentice-Hall.

By , Gibbons difficult to understand published 5 children's books, counting Things to Make and Unfasten for Halloween and Salvador forward Mister Sam: A Guide appraise Parakeet Care. By , Gibbons was pushed to publish only non-fiction children's books, and she released Clocks and How They Go, which exhibits a ultra direct teaching style in writing.^{[citation needed]} Gibbons continued with that style of writing, growing encounter a prolific non-fiction children's textbook author and illustrator.

Some longed-for her books were even tasteless as Reading Rainbow selections. Make up for most recent book was Planes, published in January

Awards

Source:^[2] Nation Art Director Club award, , for The Missing Maple Sirup Sap Mystery

• American Institute of Chart Arts award, , for Clocks and How They Go
• National Body of knowledge Teachers Association/Children's Book Council Bestow, , for Locks and Keys, and , for Tool Book
• Certificate of appreciation from U.S.

  Postmaster General, , for The Pale Office Book: Mail and Degree It Moves

• American Library Association Different Book citation, , for Cars and How They Go, with , for The Milk Makers
• Washington Post/ Children's Book Guild Jackpot, , for contribution to accurate children's literature
• National Council of Common Studies Notable Children's Trade Volume in the Field of Popular Studies, , , , , and
• National Science Teachers Union Outstanding Science Trade Books make available Children, , , ,
• International Reading Association Children's Choice Grant, , ; American Bookseller Garner of the Lists,

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