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Crosswire
The story of a boy's struggle to find his place in a broken family in the late 1800s when the invention of barbed wire pitted landowners and landless cattlemen against each other. Boyds Mills Press, 2010.
Awards for Grandpa for Sale
Grandpa for Sale has won the 2008 Storytelling World Resource Award for Young Listeners! This award is given for "story-listener appeal" and "usefulness for storytellers" by the National Storytelling Network. Read more at: www.storytellingworld.com/2008.
Grandpa for Sale has won the 2008 North Texas Book Festival Book Award.
July Book of the Month!
Grandpa for Sale was selected as Book of the Month (July 2007) by the Greensheet Education Foundation. The reviewer wrote "[The authors] easily buy their way into your heart with this clever story which is wonderfully illustrated…"
The Greensheet Education Foundation is a nonprofit foundation whose mission is to enhance curriculum and support Texas and Arizona communities. See full review at: http://www.greensheetyouthscoop.com/bookmonth/july07.
Hot Off the Press!
Ask the Authors - Houston Chronicle, Sunday, April 15, 2007. Vicki Sansum and I talk about Grandpa For Sale and our upcoming projects.
Book Bites for Kids
Suzanne Lieurance of the Writing for Children Center invited me to be the first author interviewed in a new podcast feature called Book Bites for Kids. Click here to listen.
My Blog Tour!
I recently went on tour ... virtually. Click the links to check it out.
Monday: Author/Illustrator, Karen Lee's blog.
Tuesday: Elizabeth Dulemba's blog
Wednesday: Ruth McNally Barshaw
Thursday: Kim Norman
Saturday: Barbara Johansen Newman's Cats and Jammers
Monday: Joe Kulka's Blog
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