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Rah Rah Radishes on Best Lists

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:16:06 +0000

Happy news! Rah, Rah, Radishes: A Vegetable Chant is on some yummy best-o-year lists including the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles For Reading and Sharing 2011 and Kirkus’ 100 Best of the Year list. It also received one of California Reading Association’s Eureka gold awards for excellence in nonfiction. Go, Go, Grapes: a Fruit Chant is at the printer and will be released May 22, 2012.

Trout Are Made of Trees Grand Canyon Readers

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:45:37 +0000

Trout Are Made of Trees has been nominated for the 2011 Grand Canyon Reader Award so lots of AZ schoolchildren will be reading it next school year. Hooray!

What’s New 2008

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:10:50 +0000

This has been a great year. VULTURE VIEW was named a Theodor Geisel Honor book by the American Library Association.

See the lovely Geisel Honor Sticker?

This relatively new award is named after Dr. Seuss and it honors both the text and illustrations of books geared for children beginning to read. I am thrilled and so happy for my work to be paired with the great illustrations done by Steve Jenkins. I attended the ALA national conference in Anaheim to accept the Honor Award.

I also enjoyed seeing many of you at my sessions at the International Reading Association national conference in Atlanta in May, where I gave a talk as a featured author. Also, I spoke at the Illinois Reading Association conference in March and visited schools all over the place–from IN to OH to SC.

NSTA just recommended my new book, TROUT ARE MADE OF TREES, published by Charlesbridge. I love this book and I hope you will, too. Don’t forget the CONTEST for TROUT ARE MADE OF TREES.

Trout Are Made of Trees

Classrooms of students grades K-3 are encouraged to enter their environmental projects and art to compete for prizes, including a free school visit from me! The contest is open to classrooms all over the U.S. Charlesbridge will pay my travel expenses and I am donating the visit. So I will be seeing some of you in 2009! Full information on the contest can be found here: CONTEST

Mockingbird Award Nominee, Abilene, Texas

admin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:43:56 +0000

Trout Are Made of Trees and Vulture View have been nominated for the Mockingbird Award, a reading program of the Abilene Independent School District, Abilene, Texas. What a great program. Each spring they nominate books and readers district-wide vote on them.

If you are interested in quality read aloud books, take a look a their current and past nominees. Really, it’s a choice list for anyone doing story hours or studying the read aloud form.

http://www.abileneisd.org/mockingbird/

What’s New 2007

admin — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:45:19 +0000

2007 promises to be a big year, packed with school visits, conference appearances, and three yummy new books:

March Release: HUSH LITTLE PUPPY, illustrated by Susan Winters (Holt) This is a beautiful bedtime book about a little boy trying to get his puppy to sleep. The art by British illustrator Susan Winter is just perfect.

October Release: BIRD, BIRD, BIRD: A CHIRPING CHANT illustrated by Gary Locke (NorthWord) Gary created art that is laugh out loud hilarious.

October Release: VULTURE VIEW, illustrated by Steve Jenkins (Holt) I am so excited about this book. The art is spectacular. All cut paper collage. Caldecott Honor winning illustrator Steve Jenkins has outdone himself with this one. His wife even made the paper specially for this work.

This year, look for me at the Butler University Conference, the Dublin Literary Festival (OH), and teacher inservices in Warren TWSHP, IN. My schedule is packed with young author conferences, school visits, and other adventures around the U.S.

What’s New 2006

admin — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:27:16 +0000

In 2006 STARS BENEATH YOUR BED won a big award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It was in conjunction with Science Books and Films and Subaru. Jeff and I traveled to St. Louis to accept the award for Best Science Picture Book of the year!

The ceremony and entire weekend gave us a chance to meet terrific educators, authors, reviewers, and scientists. It really was one of the highlights of my career.

The Bumblebee Queen won the John Burroughs Award for nature nonfiction for kids. Hurray!

In 2006 I visited many of you at schools and conferences in Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, and Texas. I loved presenting to teachers and librarians at ISRA, CYPD of ILA, Purdue Literacy Conference, the Picture Perfect Science Workshop in Ohio, and other events. We enjoyed visiting schools and relatives in Winchester, VA. We slipped in a visit to the Dismal Swamp while out on the coast. Look for a whale book that may come out of a chance meeting with a photographer when I was whale watching near Boston! On our San Antonio trip Jeff and I witnessed the amazing Snout butterfly migration. We love Texas and have so many other things to see and people to visit next time!