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Ward Jenkins

Ward Jenkins

Ward Jenkins

Ward Jenkins is an illustrator and animator. His first picture book was How to Train with a T-Rex and Win Eight Gold Medals by Michael Phelps. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and two children.

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A. "I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste." - Marcel Duchamp
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My life in 8 words: "I'm just trying to get by. With gusto."
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Mar 22, 2011
Chicks Run Wild is now available in Hardcover
Jan 25, 2011
Chicks Run Wild will be released on January 25, 2011 in Hardcover
Jan 25, 2011
Not Your Parents' Money Book (wt) is now available in Trade Paperback
Aug 31, 2010
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Chicks Run Wild
Aug 04, 2010
Not Your Parents' Money Book (wt) will be released on August 31, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Feb 04, 2010
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How to Train with a T. Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals
Jun 03, 2009
How to Eat Half a Car and Win 8 Gold Medals is now available in Hardcover
Jun 02, 2009
How to Eat Half a Car and Win 8 Gold Medals is now available in eBook
Jun 02, 2009
How to Train with a T. Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals will be released on June 02, 2009 in Hardcover
Jun 02, 2009
How to Train with a T. Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals is now available in Hardcover
Jun 02, 2009
How to Eat Half a Car and Win 8 Gold Medals will be released on June 02, 2009 in eBook
Jan 14, 2009
How to Eat Half a Car and Win 8 Gold Medals will be released on June 02, 2009 in Hardcover
Dec 19, 2008

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Top 100 Picture Books #1: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
School Library Journal, July 2, 2012
...It Cool News and Spike Jonze.  Here is the trailer: In terms of the title itself, artist Ward Jenkins has produced an amazing blog post on Sendak’s use of white space.  Consider this necessary reading if you’re a fan. And great site called Terrible...
Tusken Raider kids' costume
Venture Beat Profiles, October 12, 2012
...Ward Jenkins dressed up little Ezra as a Tusken Raider for Hallowe'en, and the effect is WARSOME. Halloween 2...
Town narrowly win first Saturday Oldfields clash
Uttoxeter Advertiser, September 24, 2012
...will no doubt provide another stern test for Grimley’s men. GOALS: Smith 54, Bagley 71. TOWN: Langridge, Ward, Jenkins, Beardsley, Richards (Poxon 88), Holley, Gadsby, Esplin, Smith, Bagley, Collins. Subs not used; Metcalfe, Harvey, Thompson,...
Top 100 Picture Books #1: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
School Library Journal, July 2, 2012
...It Cool News and Spike Jonze.  Here is the trailer: In terms of the title itself, artist Ward Jenkins has produced an amazing blog post on Sendak’s use of white space.  Consider this necessary reading if you’re a fan. And great site called Terrible...
A Pre-Olympics London Tour
MetroKids Pennsylvania, June 28, 2012
...tilts toward London, it could be a great time to catch up with a closer attraction: New York. Ward Jenkins’s New York, Baby! (Chronicle, $12.99, ages infant to 4) sees the sights through the eyes of two intrepid young visitors who go to Central Park,...