After coming to the attention of Simply Read Books publisher Dimiter Savoff through her work in the Vancouver arts scene, Morstad was asked to illustrate Sara O'Leary's When You Were Small in 2006.
Morstad made her authorial debut in 2013 with How To, published by Simply Read Books.
[1] Morstad illustrated When You Were Small, which won the 2006 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award.
[4] How To and Time is a Flower also won the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award.
[6] It Began With a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way was nominated for the 2020 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.