AWARDS AND HONORS
Lights Out
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Finalist for SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text
Badger’s Perfect Garden
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2019 Florida Book Awards Bronze Medal
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2020-2021 Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award Nominee
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2020 Growing Good Kids Excellence in Children’s Literature Award, selected by the American Horticultural Society and National Junior Master Gardener Program
Mine. Yours.
- The Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Best Books for Kids & Teens 2019
Galápagos Girl
- Campoy-Ada honor book, North American Academy of the Spanish Language – 2018
- Bank Street Best Book of the Year – 2019
- Junior Library Guild Selection
- Green Prize for Sustainable Literature 2019
- 2019 Little Read Lakeshore Community Read
Lost. Found.
- L. L. Beans’ Northern Lights’ Celebration Storywalk
- Firefly Scholastic Book Club
- 2015 Nerdy Book Club Award
- Junior Library Guild Selection 2015
- Bank Street Best Children’s Books of 2016
- Winterkids’ of Maine 2019 Storywalk
- 3 Starred Reviews –Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Roar of a Snore
- Northern California Book Award nominee – Children’s Literature
- Starred review – School Library Journal
- Bank Street Best Children’s Books of 2008
- Dollywood Foundation Imagination Library selection – 2010, 2011, 2012
Hugs on the Wind
- Family Choice Award 2006
Prancing, Dancing Lily
- IRA-CBC Children’s Choices List
- Mississippi Mockingbird award nominee
- Master Reading List – Missouri
- 150 Best Kansas Books, selected for the 2011 Kansas Sesquicentennial by Kansas State Library
Metro Cat
- Society of Illustrators Original Art Show juried exhibition, NYC
The Bravest of Us All
- Atlanta Parent Monthly Best Books
- Bill Martin, Jr. Picture Book Award nominee, Kansas Reading Association
- Missouri Show Me Readers Award Nominee
- Missouri Reading Circle
- Tennessee Volunteer State Award nominee
- Mississippi Magnolia award nominee
- 150 Best Kansas Books, selected for Kansas Sesquicentennial by Kansas State Library
The Pumpkin Runner
- Smithsonian’s Notable Book
- Outstanding Book, Westchester Library Master List
- Missouri Show Me Readers Award Nominee
- Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award Nominee
- First story in Houghton Mifflin 4th grade reader for over 10 years.
The Chicken Salad Club
- American Bookseller’s Pick of the List
- Notable Social Studies Trade Book
- Maryland Children’s Book Award Nominee
Heart of a Tiger
- Ridgway Award -Best First Book
- IRA Children’s Book Award – Distinguished Book
- Junior Library Guild Selection
- Houston Chronicle “Best Books of ’95 Roundup
- Missouri Show Me Readers Award Winner
- Washington Children’s Choice Award Winner
- Young Hoosier Book Award Winner
- SCBWI Book List for Children in Crises
