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Events
Saturday, April 16
3 pm
Erin Murphy Literary Agency Wine Social
Book People
603 N. Lamar
Austin TX 78703
Friday, May 6
Williams Elementary
5111 FM 762
Richmond, TX 77469
Wednesday, May 11
Hardin Elementary
Hardin, TX
Thursday, June 30
10:30 AM
Houston Public Library
500 McKinney
Houston, TX 77002
Friday, May 4, 2012
Kubacak Elementary
Santa Fe, TX
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News
Awards for Crosswire
Recipient of the Texas Institute of Letters 2011 Young Adult Award, the 2010 June Franklin Naylor Award for the Best Book for Children on Texas History and Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist 2011.
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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