About the Author

GILBERT FORD holds a BFA in illustration from Pratt Institute and an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author-illustrator of How the Cookie Crumbled and The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring, a Best STEM Book of the Year, as well as the illustrator of Alice Across America. The recipient of a Society of Illustrators Silver Medal, Gilbert marks his fiction debut with The Mysterious Messenger. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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