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Cover art for "There's Always Enough Room At My Table," with art by Ash Sanborn and story by Miquel Hamilton. A group of children are encircled each other in a big hug, around a heart that's displaying the title text.

There’s Always Enough Room At My Table

Written by Miquel Hamilton
Published 2020

“It's the first day of school, and I'm lonely and scared! There's much too much room at my table!" It can be very scary to walk into the lunch room and not have anyone to sit and eat with. After some "scouting and scanning," and some "scrunching and bunching"… the problem now is that the table is TOO full!

Will there be enough room for everyone to come and sit at the table?

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Preliminary page sketch. A sequence of actions and expressions: the main character, a girl with bangs and stylized pigtails, looks about apprehensively, sliding and ducking, before resigning to looking at her lunch bag sadly.
Preliminary page sketch. The main character, at a table in the background, notices a girl at another table, sitting sadly in front of her untouched lunch tray.
Final page art. "I look all around me / There's so many friends / I'm no longer lonely / This can't be the end! / Will there be enough room at my table?" The main character in a thoughtful pose, imagining the faces of all the other kids she's met in
Final spread art. "The lunch room is big / It's noisy and loud / There's so many faces / I'm alone in a crowd." The main character walks forward in a cloudy haze, as silhouettes of other children surround her. "There's much too much room at my tabl
Final spread art. "I slink and I slide, I duck and I hide / I look to my left / I look to my right / My table's too big / It's such a sad sight. / There's much too much room at my table." The rough sketch from earlier is now finished with line art a
Final spread art. "We scooch / and we scrunch/ we scrambled and bunch / We move to the left / We move to the right / We all squeeze together. / It isn't too tight. / There's still too much room at my table." A varied group of four kids are now gath
Final spread art. "We scooch and scrunch, / We scramble and bunch. / We move to the left. / We move to the right. / We all squeeze together. / It isn't too tight. / There's still too much room at my table." A long angled view of the lunch table, now
Cover art for "Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words," by Karl Beckstrand and Ashley Sanborn. An upright polar bear holds up a large snowball, while a seal perches on his shoulder.

Polar Bear Bowler

Story by Karl Beckstrand
Published 2014

“A charming wordless story… Sanborn’s cartooning is full of…polish and physical comedy.”
–Publishers Weekly

A polar bear takes a journey to the South Pole, and discovers what he thinks are bowling pins… until a snowball fight breaks out!

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A reading of Polar Bear Bowler, presented by @kidsworldbooks.

Preliminary page sketch. Three poses of the main polar bear character: reaching down to scoop up snow, shaping it into a ball, and then rolling it across the ground.
Final spread art. The polar bear ponders, imagining the mysterious silhouettes he saw, and questioning if they are bowling pins. Then, he has an idea! Now in full color, three poses of the main polar bear character: reaching down to scoop up snow,
Final spread art. On the left, penguins dodging a snowball line up on an snowy cliff, then plunge with a splash into the deep blue water below. On the right, two penguins swim through the dark water, looking up at the feet and tail of the polar bear
A sketchbook open to a marker drawing of the polar bear with a snowball, and a penguin with a smaller snowball. Text reads: "World Art Drop Day #ArtDropDay. Polar Bear Bowler, coming winter 2014."
Digital painting: a loose study with wide brush strokes, of icy blue cliffs and dark water, under gray skies.

visual development for scrapped project

(art from 2018)

Final spread art. A white French family is gathered around the island in their kitchen, baking together. The foreground is accented with detailed berry tarts. On the next page, the family delivers the baked goods to a neighbor who is wearing a heads
Five cover thumbnails. #1: a close-up of a girl with a braid and afro puffs, holding a large star above a Nativity set. #2: A girl silhouetted by a Christmas tree, with a large star at the top. #3: Children holding hands in a circle, around a large s
Final cover art: "The Star Leads Us To Him." Two Black siblings—a girl in a red sweater, with hair pulled up into braids and afro puffs, and her younger brother, wearing green, with a faded haircut, each hold on to the sides of a big yellow star, ra
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