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Gary Harbo - Author Illustrator

Contact Information

Address:
4189 Ethan Drive
Eagan, MN 55123

Phone: 651/647-1627
Cell:
Fax:
E-mail: gharbo@garyharbo.com
Website: http://www.garyharbo.com


Book Category: Nonfiction,Picture Books

Age Group:

Books



How to Draw: Bad Bart's Revenge. Kutie Kari Books, 2002.

How to Draw: My New Friend. Kutie Kari Books, 2001.

The Black Hills Adventure. Kutie Kari Books, 1997. (2002, 2nd printing).

The Great Train Ride. Kutie Kari Books, 1994. (2001 2nd printing).

Bart Becomes a Friend. Kutie Kari Books, 1992.

Bad Bart's Revenge. Kutie Kari Books, 1991.

My New Friend. Kutie Kari Books, 1990.

Highlights

A 50 minute video capturing Gary's high energy presentation on How to Draw a Gorilla is now available for purchase. Call 800-395-8843. Gary illustrates his books with colored pencils and creates a funny, vibrant look at life through the eyes of his cast of animal cartoon characters. Each book contains 3000 words, (like a chapter book), but remains a picture book in format which makes reading fun for students up to 5th grade level.

Awards

Study Web Award - Academic Excellence Award (for website) Kidsites.com - Approved Site Award (for website)
Surfing the net with kids - 3 star site award (for website)
WannaLearn.com - Selected Instructional Site Award (for website)

Presentations

Keynote speaker at Young Author Conferences and International Reading Association Conventions. School visits: K-6th Gary provides hands-on art sessions for students of all ages. The sessions are tailored to be exciting, challenging, educational and will help to build students self-esteem in the creative process. Each student will successfully create a unique character that could be used in a setting to begin the process of creating a story. Gary's sessions are high energy, laced with lots of humor and are 55 minutes in length. They can be attended by up to 2 sections of students at a time. The students will be laughing their way through the process of beginning an exciting story

Fees

Each session is $100 and 5 sessions can be schedul


Added: 2/12/2004

Updated: 2006/07/18:0