Awards

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-ALA Notable Book 2010

-2009 Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book

-New York Times- one of the eight most Notable Children’s Books of 2009

-2011 Beehive Book Award Nominee (Utah)

-2009 Cybils Nonfiction Picture Book Finalists

Hottest Coldest Highest Deepest

-Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Honor Book 1999

-The Children’s Literature Choice List, 2000

-Children’s Literature Los Angeles’ 100 Best Books, 1998

-Recommended Literature: Kindergarten through Grade Twelve, 2002 California Department of Education

I See a Kookaburra

-Bulletin For The Center of Children’s Books’ Best of the Year

Never Smile At a Monkey

-Society of Illustrators Original Art Show

-Junior Library Guild Fall 2009 Selection

-NDLA Flicker Tale Children’s Book Award 2011

-The Original Art Show 2010

-2010-2011 Horned Toad Tales List