Awards
- A SKY FULL OF SONG is a winner of the Sydney Taylor Honor Award.
- A SKY FULL OF SONG is the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award.
- A SKY FULL OF SONG is a winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award.
- A SKY FULL OF SONG is a New-York State Historical Society Children’s History Book Award Finalist.
- A SKY FULL OF SONG is a High Plains Book Award Young Reader Finalist
- A SKY FULL OF SONG is a High Plains Book Award Woman Writer Finalist
- A SKY FULL OF SONG is a Bank Street College of Education Best Book, “Outstanding Merit.
- A SKY FULL OF SONG is a Boston Authors Club Notable Book
- A SKY FULL OF SONG is a winner of the PJ Our Way Author Incentive Award.
- SKATING WITH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY is a Julia Ward Howe Honor Award Winner.
- SKATING WITH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY is a Sydney Taylor Notable Book.
- SKATING WITH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY is a Massachusetts Book Award “Must-Read Book.”
- SKATING WITH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY is a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year.
- SKATING WITH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY is a Junior Library Guild Selection.
- NEW SHOES is the winner of the Jane Addams Peace Association Children’s Book Award.
- NEW SHOES is an NCTE Charlotte Huck Honor Award winner.
- NEW SHOES is an NAACP Image Award Nominee.
- NEW SHOES is a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year.
- NEW SHOES is an ALA Notable Book Nominee.
- NEW SHOES is an NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People.
- NEW SHOES is a Massachusetts Book Award Must-Read Book.
- NEW SHOES is the winner of the New York State Reading Association Charlotte Award (Intermediate).
- NEW SHOES is an Illinois Monarch Award Master List Book.
- NEW SHOES is a Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominee.
- NEW SHOES is a Read On Wisconsin Master List Book.
- NEW SHOES is a South Dakota Prairie Bloom Award Nominee.
- NEW SHOES is a Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Books Best Multicultural Book.
- NEW SHOES is a CCBC (Cooperative Children’s Book Center) Choice Book.
- NEW SHOES is a Chicago Public Library Best Picture Book.
- NEW SHOES is a Teaching for Change Favorite Book.
- NEW SHOES is a Mighty Girl Top Book for Younger Readers.
- NEW SHOES is an Open Circle Curriculum Recommended Book for Social Awareness.
- BLACK RADISHES is a Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner.
- BLACK RADISHES is a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year.
- BLACK RADISHES is a Massachusetts Book Award Must-Read Finalist.
- BLACK RADISHES is a Boston Author’s Club Highly Recommended Book.
- BLACK RADISHES is an Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award Finalist.
- BLACK RADISHES is a South Korea Morning Calm Award Finalist.
- BLACK RADISHES is a Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Young Adult Top 40 book.
- BLACK RADISHES is an Instructor Magazine Best Kids’ Book: Historical Fiction
- MATTHEW AND TALL RABBIT GO CAMPING is a Your Big Backyard book of the month.
News
August 6, 2018: In a week when I was feeling sad, I have had the good fortune to learn that my books have received two awards. SKATING WITH THE STATUE OF LIBERTY was named a Massachusetts Book Award Must-Read Book and NEW SHOES has won the New York State Reading Association Charlotte Award! Thank you to the children of New York state who read and voted on their favorite books. You have lifted my spirits!
And: I have a new picture book just out! In MATZAH BELOWSTAIRS, Miriam Mouse forages for matzah from the family that lives upstairs so that her Mouse family can have its own Passover celebration.
I’m really happy to announce that BLACK RADISHES has been translated into Chinese and published by Liaoning Children’s Publishing House!
BLACK RADISHES has also been translated into German and published in Germany by Cecilie Dressler Verlag. The German title is SCHWARZER RETTICH.