Awards
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Finalist: Grades 3-6
- Product: The Last Brother
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2008
Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children Book of the Month
- Product: Rudy Rides the Rails
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2008
San Diego Book & Writing Awards Finalist
- Product: S is for S'mores: A Camping Alphabet
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2008
Show Me Readers Award Master List
- Product: The Last Brother
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2008
Storytelling World Awards Honor in the Pre-Adolescent Listeners category
- Product: The Tsunami Quilt
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2008
Teachers' Choice Awards for Children's Books--Learning Magazine
- Product: D is for Drum: A Native American Alphabet
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2008
The Crystal Book Award of Excellence
- Product: A Girl Named Dan
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2008
Treasure State Award (A Montana Readers Choice Award)
- Product: Shep: Our Most Loyal Dog
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2008
ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Honor--Illustration Category
- Product: M is for Meow: A Cat Alphabet
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2007
Bank Street College of Education--Best Book of the Year List
- Product: The Voyageur's Paddle
- Achievement: Short-listed
- Year: 2007