About+the+Authors

=Authors= Gail Gibbons began exploring, drawing, writing, and crafting books together with yarn as a young child. She was a curious child, and still is today. She loves to research and travel to various areas of the globe as she collects information for her books. She has written and illustrated over 135 informational books for children. Her first hand account is exemplified in works such as //Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests//. She traveled to islands, Saba and Dominica in order to explore and understand rain forest as she gathered information for this book. She has climbed the construction of skyscrapers, spoken to truck drivers, taken objects apart and put them back together to discover how they work, and much more to learn the intricate details needed as she writes each book. Gail claims her natural curiosity and her love for travel have been fulfilled throughout her career as an author/illustrator.

Gail majored in graphic design in the University of Illinois and entered her first career as an artist for television shows. As she shared her knowledge and curiosity with children on the set, they asked her if she had written a book. This sparked her imagination and she immediately wrote and published her first book, //Willy and His Wheel Wagon,// thus her career as an author/illustrator began.