Awards
Delaware Diamonds Booklist--A Children's Choice
- Product: The Legend of the Cape May Diamond
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2008
Grand Canyon Young Readers Award Finalist: Children's Choice Award Non-Fiction Category
- Product: Desert Digits: An Arizona Number Book
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2008
IRA Teachers' Choices--Primary Category
- Product: D is for Drinking Gourd: An African American Alphabet
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2008
IRA Teachers' Choices--Primary Category
- Product: The Orange Shoes
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2008
K-2 Crown Gallery Award: A Children's Choice Award
- Product: Shep: Our Most Loyal Dog
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2008
K-2 Crown Gallery Award Finalist
- Product: Black Beauty's Early Days in the Meadow
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2008
Keystone to Reading Book Award List--Intermediate Category
- Product: The Legend of the Cape May Diamond
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2008
Manuscript Wins Honorable Mention for the Mcknight Artist Fellowship for Writers Sponsored by the Loft Literacy Center
- Product: Riding to Washington
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2008
Missouri Center for the Book National Book Festival Representative
- Product: S is for Show Me: A Missouri Alphabet
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2008
Mom's Choice Gold Award/Educator's Choice
- Product: R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2008