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SPECIAL RECOGNITION
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Click on any cover to learn more about these titles.
Writer's Toolbox book cover

WRITER'S TOOLBOX

Distinguished Achievement Award (series)
Association of Educational Publishers, 2010



Share a Scare: Writing Your Own Scary Story
Bank Street's "Best Children's Books of the Year"  2011

(Category: Special Interest, Activity)


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Once Upon a Time book cover
Show Me a Story book cover
Words, Wit and Wonder book cover
Share a Scare book cover
Make Me Giggle book cover
Sincerely Yours book cover

The Other Side of the Story book cover
Another Other Side of the Story Book Cover


THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY

Library Media Connection: Best Resources of 2012
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“…in our opinion these titles deserve special recognition. They were selected because of their significance and value in the school setting…If they are not already in your collection or on your ‘to be purchased’ list, we suggest you take another look at them.” 
No Lie, I Acted Like a Beast book cover
Believe Me, Goldilocks Rocks book cover
Seriously, Snow White was So Forgetful book cover
No Kidding, Mermaids are a Joke book cover
Frankly, I Never Wanted to Kiss Anybody book cover

Last Day of Kindergarten book cover


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THE LAST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN

Minnesota Book Award Finalist 
​Scholastic Book Club bestseller

Baby Wants Mama book cover



​BABY WANTS MAMA

An Oppenheim Toy Portfolio "Best Book" 
Reviewer’s Choice, 
Children’s Bookwatch

Scarlett the Cat to the Rescue book cover



SCARLETT THE CAT TO THE RESCUE: FIRE HERO
Animal Heroes series

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2016 Storytelling World Honor Book 

2016-2017 Horned Toad Tales list
(serving more than 50 elementary schools in the
​Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District in Texas)

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Walt Whitman book cover



WALT WHITMAN
Voices in Poetry series


New York Public Library’s “Best Books for the Teen Age”
Parents’ Choice illustration award
Starred review, School Library Journal



Note: This title was published in 1994, but a new edition (paperback) was released in 2014.

Four to the Pole book cover



FOUR TO THE POLE: The American Women's Expedition to Antarctica    (Ann Bancroft, co-author)


Minnesota Book Award Finalist
Society of School Librarians International Honor Book
Starred review,
School Library Journal

Poe book cover



POE: a biography

American Library Association,
       Quick Picks for Young Adults
Benjamin Franklin Award: second place
       in juvenile nonfiction
Starred review, Publishers Weekly 
"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road.
They are the destination, ​and the journey. They are home."
​   ​~ Anna Quindlen
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