Marsha Is Magnetic

It turns out that the best way to draw others to you is by being yourself in this sweet, STEAM-minded picture book from New York Times best-selling author Beth Ferry.

Marsha is a scientist who has never met a problem she couldn't solve. But when it comes to making friends to invite to her birthday party, she is stumped.

Luckily, Marsha knows the solution to being stumped: the scientific method.

With equal parts creativity, determination, and humor, Marsha sets out to attract as many friends as she can-what could possibly go wrong?

In this hilarious celebration of friendship and ingenuity, Beth Ferry and Lorena Alvarez show readers that the best way to attract friends is to simply be yourself.

About the Authors

Beth Ferry is the author of the picture books Stick and Stone and Land Shark.

Her family has cared for lots of different kinds of pet, including two land sharks, a hedgehog and many hamsters, but her perfect pet is an English bulldog named Winston. She lives in the USA, in New Jersey.

Lorena Alvarez was born and raised in Bogota, Columbia. Her work is influenced by the vibrancy and color of her home town as well as the experiences and atmosphere of the Catholic school she attended as a child.

She studied Graphic Design and Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has illustrated for Puffin Books, Faber & Faber, Usborne Books, Paragon, Boom! Studios, Nickelodeon and Disney.

Since 2008, she has been part of "La Procesion Puppet Club," an experimental puppetry group of illustrators and visual artists.