Awards
MRA Reader's Choice Award
- Product: The Legend of Mackinac Island
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2002
IRA Children's Choice Award
- Product: The Legend of the Teddy Bear
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
IRA Children's Choice Award
- Product: The Legend of the Loon
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
National Arbor Day Foundation Award
- Product: The Blue Spruce
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Friends of America's Writers Award
- Product: Buzzy the bumblebee
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2000
Read Michigan Selection
- Product: M is for Mitten: A Michigan Alphabet
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2000
GLBA Children's Book Award
- Product: The Legend of Mackinac Island
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1999
IPPY Award Finalist
- Product: The Legend of Sleeping Bear
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 1999
Read Michigan Selection
- Product: The Legend of Mackinac Island
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 1999