Awards

Awards for Every Turtle Counts

✿ Independent Publisher Moonbeam Children's Book Award, Bronze medal. 


✿ National Science Teachers Association and the Children’s Book Council “Outstanding Science Trade Book 2015”, representing the year’s best books for science classrooms, chosen by science educators.


✿ IPBA 2015 Benjamin Franklin Awards Winner. Gold medal for best children's cover design of the year.


Writing Awards

✿ Hermes Writing award for Cape Cod Home Magazine article about a famous garden, “Eden by the Sea”.


Awards for The Unbreakable Code

✿ Smithsonian Magazine, Notable Books for Children 1996


✿ Spur Award Finalist, Western Writers of America, Storyteller Award, 1997


✿ National Council of Teachers of English, Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts, 1997, Language Arts, Vol. 74, No. 1, Nov. 1997


✿ Missouri Association of School Librarians, Show Me Readers Finalist, 1998


✿ Governor of Arizona Fourth Grade Literacy Enrichment Book of the Year 2006


Awards for Born Journey

✿ Charleston Film Festival, 1996 Gold Award, Family and Children’s Documentary Short Subject


✿ Houston Film Festival, 1997, Bronze Award, Family Short Subject


Awards for Metco, Experiment in Education

✿ Continental Cablevision Education Award, 1992