What Happened On the Garden Street Bus | Co-Created by Garry Klein & Sabrina Claman | 9781948509640 | $20 | 66p | Full Color | Graphic Novel
A super cool graphic novel on friendships and community. The Garden Street bus is mostly filled with strangers until a cute baby girl named Flora boards with her mother. Before long, a change is in the air. Learn how the smallest act by a small child melts the heart of a grumpy old man and creates a community of caring people on the Garden Street bus and beyond. Based on a true story. This colorful intergenerational tale is a great bedtime or anytime story of how, little by little, a little becomes a lot. Climb aboard and find out what happened on the Garden Street bus–this is a ride worth taking!
Readers and listeners of all ages will enjoy this story.
Garry Klein is an intrepid Midwesterner and first-time author residing in Iowa City, Iowa. Garry is a lyrical dad to a mystical cat and a loving husband to a marvelous mermaid named Betsy, who doubles as his partner of over 40 years. Garry was a career coach at the University of Iowa, and his co-creator of this book,
Sabrina Claman. Garry was a career coach at the University of Iowa when he met his co-creator of this book, Sabrina Claman. Now an educator herself, Sabrina’s creative practice focuses on empathy-driven storytelling. She is a mixed-media artist who fosters connection through kindness and nostalgia. Her flexible approach to narrative design lets her work across multiple disciplines in commercial and fine arts environments, from illustrations, comics, and murals to animation, game development, and installation work.