Awards
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
Childrens Crown Award Nominee a Childrens Choice Award
- Product: Saving Samantha: A True Story
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2006
Childrens Crown Award Nominee a Childrens Choice Award
- Product: A Wish to Be A Christmas Tree
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2006
Children's Crown Gallery Award Nominee--a Children's Choice Award
- Product: Someday Is Not a Day of the Week
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2006
February Kirkus Reviews--Starred Review
- Product: R is for Rhyme: A Poetry Alphabet
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2006
Finalist Design/Illustration Category Okalahoma Book Award
- Product: I is for Idea: An Inventions Alphabet
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2006