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Stephen Gammell

Stephen Gammell
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Stephen Gammell

Stephen Gammell is the beloved illustrator of more than fifty books for children, including Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman, which received the Caldecott Medal, and two Caldecott Honor Books: The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant, Where the Buffaloes Begin by Olaf Baker, and The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate Our School by Judy Sierra. Mr. Gammell lives with his wife, Linda, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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The OLD BANJO is now available in Trade Paperback
Mar 11, 2013
The OLD BANJO will be released on March 11, 2013 in Trade Paperback
Feb 27, 2013
Laugh-Out-Loud Baby will be released on September 25, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 25, 2012
Laugh-Out-Loud Baby is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Sep 25, 2012
Laugh-Out-Loud Baby will be released on September 04, 2012 in Hardcover
Sep 04, 2012
Laugh-Out-Loud Baby is now available in Hardcover
Sep 04, 2012
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Laugh-Out-Loud Baby
Apr 17, 2012
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The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School has won an award
Aug 25, 2009
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The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School has won an award
Jun 24, 2009
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The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School has won an award
Jun 24, 2009
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The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School has won an award
Jun 24, 2009
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The Secret Science Project That Almost Ate the School has won an award
Jun 24, 2009
My Friend, the Starfinder will be released on February 05, 2008 in Hardcover
Feb 05, 2008
My Friend, the Starfinder is now available in Hardcover
Feb 05, 2008
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Digital Journal, April 11, 2013
...and His Steam Shovel,” as well as more recent classics like the1997 book “Is That You, Winter?” by Stephen Gammell. Others include “The Fire Cat” by Esther Averill, “Stone Soup” by Marcia Brown and “Amelia Bedilia” by Peggy Parish. ...
PublishersWeekly.com, February 26, 2013
...into a house. Ages 4 to 8. The Frazzle Family Finds a Way by Ann Bonwill, illus. by Stephen Gammell (Mar. 15, hardcover, $16.95, ISBN 978-0823424054) is the tale of a very forgetful family. Ages 4 to 8. Rabbit and the Not-So-Big-Bad Wolf by Michael...
Examiner.com, January 2, 2013
...Award went to The Secret Science Project that Almost Ate the School by Judy Sierra and illustrated by Stephen Gammell 2006 Ladybug Picture Book Award went to I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont & David Catrow 2005 Ladybug Picture Book...
Technology Daily News, October 28, 2012
...books scary stories to tell in the dark audiobook horror Scary stories alvin schwartz Stephen Gammell George S. Irving...
Kirkus Reviews, October 26, 2012
...of old school horror done right. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Stephen Gammell You may remember reading these books as a child, and you may think that you have outgrown them. I beg to differ. Stephen Gammell’s...
The Atlantic Wire, October 26, 2012
...a book that scared me was  Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark   by Alvin Shwartz, illustrated by Stephen Gammell." Wood says, "The stories and illustrations in this anthology were genuinely bizarre and creepy. There's one story about spiders laying...
Huffington Post, October 17, 2012
...those that won't look like everything else. Which would seem to bode well for such illustrators as Stephen Gammell whose latest, Laugh-Out-Loud Baby , is a characteristically riotous affair. The great Tony Johnston chips in with a jazzy, improvisatory...
Examiner.com, January 2, 2013
...Award went to The Secret Science Project that Almost Ate the School by Judy Sierra and illustrated by Stephen Gammell 2006 Ladybug Picture Book Award went to I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont & David Catrow 2005 Ladybug Picture Book...
Print, October 31, 2012
...I created in my mind. I also loved the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series with Stephen Gammell's illustrations, and Heckedy Peg with Don Wood's beautifully dark paintings. These artists were my earliest influences. I feel like they molded my...
Pop Matters, October 30, 2012
...most challenged books for removal from libraries between 1990 and 1999, was the down-right disturbing drawings of illustrator Stephen Gammell. Somehow both surreal and grimly realistic, Gammell’s black-and-white art depicted everything from ominous...
Pop Matters, October 30, 2012
...most challenged books for removal from libraries between 1990 and 1999, was the down-right disturbing drawings of illustrator Stephen Gammell. Somehow both surreal and grimly realistic, Gammell’s black-and-white art depicted everything from ominous...
Pop Matters, October 30, 2012
...most challenged books for removal from libraries between 1990 and 1999, was the down-right disturbing drawings of illustrator Stephen Gammell. Somehow both surreal and grimly realistic, Gammell’s black-and-white art depicted everything from ominous...
Technology Daily News, October 28, 2012
...books scary stories to tell in the dark audiobook horror Scary stories alvin schwartz Stephen Gammell George S. Irving...