ALISON GOLDBERG is a writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of I Love You for Miles and Miles and the National Jewish Book Award–winning picture book The Remembering Candle, illustrated by Selina Alko. Alison also wrote the award-winning nonfiction picture book Bottle Tops, a biography of the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. Eighteen Flowers for Grandma was inspired by her own grandmother, who graduated from college at the age of seventy-eight. You can visit Alison online at alisongoldberg.com. JESSE WHITE is an illustrator, author, and muralist who creates whimsical, wonder-filled work about imagination and adventure. Nature is her core throughline, a focus that comes from her childhood in rural North Carolina. Jesse graduated with a BFA in studio art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her master’s in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first author-illustrator project, Brave Like Fireweed, is due out from Union Square Kids. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. Visit Jesse online at www.jessewhiteillustration.com.

"A child seeks the perfect gift for her grandmother’s upcoming college graduation. A gentle tale of intergenerational bonding that will appeal to budding artists."

ALISON GOLDBERG is a writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of I Love You for Miles and Miles and the National Jewish Book Award–winning picture book The Remembering Candle, illustrated by Selina Alko. Alison also wrote the award-winning nonfiction picture book Bottle Tops, a biography of the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. Eighteen Flowers for Grandma was inspired by her own grandmother, who graduated from college at the age of seventy-eight. You can visit Alison online at alisongoldberg.com. JESSE WHITE is an illustrator, author, and muralist who creates whimsical, wonder-filled work about imagination and adventure. Nature is her core throughline, a focus that comes from her childhood in rural North Carolina. Jesse graduated with a BFA in studio art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her master’s in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first author-illustrator project, Brave Like Fireweed, is due out from Union Square Kids. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. Visit Jesse online at www.jessewhiteillustration.com.

"A child seeks the perfect gift for her grandmother’s upcoming college graduation. A gentle tale of intergenerational bonding that will appeal to budding artists."

ALISON GOLDBERG is a writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of I Love You for Miles and Miles and the National Jewish Book Award–winning picture book The Remembering Candle, illustrated by Selina Alko. Alison also wrote the award-winning nonfiction picture book Bottle Tops, a biography of the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. Eighteen Flowers for Grandma was inspired by her own grandmother, who graduated from college at the age of seventy-eight. You can visit Alison online at alisongoldberg.com. JESSE WHITE is an illustrator, author, and muralist who creates whimsical, wonder-filled work about imagination and adventure. Nature is her core throughline, a focus that comes from her childhood in rural North Carolina. Jesse graduated with a BFA in studio art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her master’s in art education from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first author-illustrator project, Brave Like Fireweed, is due out from Union Square Kids. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. Visit Jesse online at www.jessewhiteillustration.com.

"A child seeks the perfect gift for her grandmother’s upcoming college graduation. A gentle tale of intergenerational bonding that will appeal to budding artists."