News & Reviews
2021 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List: Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery
Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery made the 2021 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List! Congratulations to author Meeg Pincus, and illustrator Yas Imamura.
Kirkus Best Picture Books of the Year (2020): Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery & Memoirs of a Tortoise
Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery by Meeg Pincus, illus. by Yas Imamura and Memoirs of a Tortoise by Devin Scillian, illus. by Tim Bowers, are two of the “Best Picture Books of the Year”, according to Kirkus Reviews.
The San Francisco Book Review 5 Star Review: Lions & Cheetahs & Rhinos OH MY!: Animal Artwork by Children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lions & Cheetahs & Rhinos Oh My!: Animal Artwork by Children in Sub-Saharan Africa is filled with a plethora of interesting facts about animals who inhabit the vast plains of Sub-Saharan Africa…
Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List: Someplace to Call Home
Someplace to Call Home, written by Sandra Dallas, has made it onto the 2021 Texas Bluebonnet Award’s Master List!
San Francisco Book Review 5 Star Review: Bobby Babinski's Bathtub
Author Judy Young has written a perfectly charming story in clever rhyme with a rocking meter. Young readers will be completely engaged by this silly rhymer…
San Francisco Book Review 5 Star Review: H is for Honey Bee
Get ready to take flight into the fantastic world of bees in, H is for Honey Bee: A Beekeeping Alphabet. In this science and nature alphabet book, Robbyn Smith van Frankenhuyzen takes readers deep into the fascinating world of bees…
Finalist for 2021 Children's Science Picture Book Award
Winged Wonders by Meeg Pincus, illus. by Yas Imamura, made the longlist for the 2021 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Children’s Science Picture Book category.
Portland Book Review 5 Star Review: T is for Thor
There are not a lot of picture books that are going to be interesting for preschoolers as well as elementary students up to middle graders. This is that rare book…
2019 WILLA Literary Award: Hardscrabble
Hardscrabble by Sandra Dallas is the winner of the 2019 WILLA Literary Award in the Children’s Fiction & Nonfiction category
2020 WILLA Literary Award (TIED): Someplace to Call Home
Sandra Dallas has tied for first place in the WILLA Literary Award’s Children’s Fiction & Nonfiction category for her title, Someplace to Call Home.