Whitney Gardner – illustratör

From the creator of Fake Blood comes another exceptionally charming middle grade graphic novel about friendships both near and far, far away.Vega’s summer vacation is not going well. When her parents decide it’s time to pack up and leave her hometown of Portland, Oregon, behind for boring Seattle, Washington, Vega is more than upset—she’s downright miserable. Forced to leave her one and only best friend, Halley, behind, Vega is convinced she’ll never make another friend again. To help her settle into her new life in Seattle, her parents send Vega off to summer camp to make new friends. Except Vega is determined to get her old life back. But when her cellphone unexpectedly calls it quits and things at camp start getting stranger and stranger, Vega has no choice but to team up with her bunkmates to figure out what’s going on!

From the creator of Fake Blood comes another exceptionally charming middle grade graphic novel about friendships both near and far, far away.Vega’s summer vacation is not going well. When her parents decide it’s time to pack up and leave her hometown of Portland, Oregon, behind for boring Seattle, Washington, Vega is more than upset—she’s downright miserable. Forced to leave her one and only best friend, Halley, behind, Vega is convinced she’ll never make another friend again. To help her settle into her new life in Seattle, her parents send Vega off to summer camp to make new friends. Except Vega is determined to get her old life back. But when her cellphone unexpectedly calls it quits and things at camp start getting stranger and stranger, Vega has no choice but to team up with her bunkmates to figure out what’s going on!

The Bins family needs to plan a great escape from the zoo—and quickly!—in this third entry in the hilarious middle grade graphic novel series about a sneaky raccoon family who live life in the trash lane from Stephanie Cooke and Whitney Gardner!After Dusty, Scraps, and ReRe Bins’s pursuit of food has the unexpected side effect of thwarting a notorious ring of thieves at the art museum, they are recognized as hometown heroes and put on special exhibition at the zoo to meet their public. At first, the scrappy raccoons and possum are living the good life, full of food and free of responsibility! But despite their celebrity treatment, the trio start to realize the zoo isn’t the cushy gig they thought it was—after all, they’re stuck behind bars! A conniving beaver offers to help them, but at a price: in return, they have to sneak her sculpture into the museum of contemporary art so she can finally become a famous artist. Do the Bins have what it takes to break out of one place and break into another?

Live life in the trash lane with the laugh-out-loud middle grade graphic novel series about a family of sneaky raccoons from graphic novel superstars Stephanie Cooke and Whitney Gardner! The first three books are now available together in one paper over board boxed set.Meet the Bins Family, two raccoons and an opossum (who thinks he's a raccoon). Armed with brains, muscle, and ideas galore, they're determined to leave no garbage bin unturned in their pursuit of the tastiest, most delicious trash they can find. Together, they hatch a daring heist to get their hands on food being thrown away by a new grocery store, swap one of their members with a celebrity pet, and become celebrities themselves by inadvertently thwarting a notorious ring of art thieves. This hilarious paper over board boxed set includes: The Racc Pack Prince and the Pawper The Bins Breakout

Live life in the trash lane with this first ';imaginative, high-energy' (School Library Journal) entry in a middle grade graphic novel series that's ';a dumpster's worth of laughs' (Kirkus Reviews) about a family of sneaky raccoons from graphic novel superstars Stephanie Cooke and Whitney Gardner!Meet the Bins family, a trio of raccoons in the risky business of dumpster diving for all their needs. With Dusty's brains, ReRe's muscle, and Scraps's gadgets (please don't tell him he's almost definitely an opossum), the Binses are determined to leave no garbage bin unturned in their pursuit of the tastiest, most delicious trash they can find. When the family discovers a new upscale grocery store that's throwing away their perfectly good food at the end of each day, the Binses hatch a heist so daring it'll have them rolling in garbage all winter long. But a critter-despising CEO, Jeff Beans, and the high-tech defense system he's installed means liberating that trash is going to take all the skills the Racc Pack hasand maybe some help from a cat burglar with a mysterious past.