2019 Music video made of If You’re Scary and You Know It by Vooks, a Canadian company.
2018 Selected for inclusion in Something About the Author, a print and digital resource by Gale/Cengage Learning. Includes my bio, writing awards, and reviews, updated as my new books are published.
2017 A Band of Babies selected by Amazon as one of their Best Children’s Books of the Year.
2016 Contributing Poet to One Minute Till Bedtime, 60-second Poems to Send You Off to Sleep published by Little, Brown and Company.
2016 Leaf Jumpers selected as one of 20 titles promoted by the Ohio Reads program.
2015 Seeds, Bees, Butterflies, and More! translated into Korean and sold by Daeko, Ltd.
2014 Seeds, Bees, Butterflies, and More! named a Notable Poetry Book by the NCTE.
2013 contributing author, The Poetry Friday Anthology: Poems for the School Year with Connections to the Common Core, Grades 6-8
2012 contributing author, The Poetry Friday Anthology: Poems for the School Year with Connections to the Common Core, K-5
2011 edition of Best Books for Children: Preschool to Grade Six references my titles: Leaf Jumpers, Firefly Night, Blizzard, and Hush! A Gaelic Lullaby.
2010 Selected by SCBWI as one of three judges to choose the outstanding nonfiction children’s book for 2009 Golden Kite Award.
2009 Outstanding Picture book award from Children’s Book Council and National Science Teachers Association for Winter Trees (Charlesbridge Publishing 2008).
2009 Just Read! Florida Summer Reading List for Leaf Jumpers (Charlesbridge Publishing)
2008 John Burroughs Nature Writing Award for Winter Trees (Charlesbridge Publishing)
2004 Leaf Jumpers (Charlesbridge Publishing) chosen as “Commended Book” by the National Science Teachers Association.
2001 Blizzard named one of Cooperative Children’s Book Center’s “Best Books.”