Awards
Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist: Storyteller Category
- Product: Shep: Our Most Loyal Dog
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2007
William Allen White Children's Book Award Finalist: Grades 3-5
- Product: Let Them Play
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2007
Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book
- Product: S is for Sunflower: A Kansas Alphabet
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2006
Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book Award Finalist
- Product: Let Them Play
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2006
Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book Award Nominee
- Product: Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot: A True Story of the Berlin Airlift and the Candy That Dropped from the Sky
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2006
Bill Martin Jr. Picture Book Award Nominee
- Product: My Momma Likes to Say
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2006
Carter G. Woodson Book Award--Elementary Level
- Product: Let Them Play
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2006
CCBC Choices--Historical People, Places and Events Category Cooperative Children's Book Center of the University of Wisconsin, School of Education
- Product: Let Them Play
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2006
Children's Choices (IRA/CBC)
- Product: Someday Is Not a Day of the Week
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2006
Children's Crown Award Finalist: A Children's Choice Award
- Product: America's White Table
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2006