Bernette Ford

Bernette Ford is an author, editor, and publisher. For nearly 13 years, Bernette was the vice president and editorial director of Cartwheel Books at Scholastic Inc. Ford joined Scholastic in 1989, where she launched an imprint designed especially for preschoolers called Cartwheel Books. The imprint grew to produce more than 100 books a year for babies to beginning readers. Bernette left Scholastic in May 2002 to start her own company, Color-Bridge Books, LLC, an independent packager of children...See more

Bernette Ford is an author, editor, and publisher. For nearly 13 years, Bernette was the vice president and editorial director of Cartwheel Books at Scholastic Inc. Ford joined Scholastic in 1989, where she launched an imprint designed especially for preschoolers called Cartwheel Books. The imprint grew to produce more than 100 books a year for babies to beginning readers. Bernette left Scholastic in May 2002 to start her own company, Color-Bridge Books, LLC, an independent packager of children's books, with an emphasis on multicultural books. Prior to Scholastic, Bernette worked at Random House, Golden Books, and Grosset & Dunlap. While at Grosset & Dunlap, Bernette served as VP/associate publisher, becoming the first African-American editor to hold that position at a major publishing house.Bernette Ford and her husband, children's book illustrator George Ford, live in a 100-year-old house in Brooklyn, NY, and have one daughter, Olivia, who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. See less