Awards
Show Me 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: 2004
State IRA Literacy Award (to author)
- Product: C is for Cowboy: A Wyoming Alphabet
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2004
Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee--Picture Book
- Product: H is for Hoosier: An Indiana Alphabet
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2004
Beehive 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: 2003
Benjamin Franklin Award Finalist
- Product: Jam and Jelly by Holly and Nellie
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2003
Blue Spruce Award
- Product: Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2003
Children's Choices--IRA
- Product: Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot: A True Story of the Berlin Airlift and the Candy That Dropped from the Sky
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2003
GLBA Children's Book Award Finalist
- Product: Jam and Jelly by Holly and Nellie
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2003
GLBA Children's Book Award Finalist
- Product: The Legend of Leelanau
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2003
Indiana Young Hoosier State Book award Nominee
- Product: The Legend of the Teddy Bear
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2003