Awards & Honors

NOT YOUR TYPICAL DRAGON

  • Winner of the 2014/15 Chocolate Lily Award
  • Winner of 2017 Nevada Young Readers Award
  • Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library book selection for 2015 and 2016
  • 2014 BC Book Prize nominee
  • 2018 Rainforest of Reading Award nominee
  • 2014 Libris Award’s Picture Book of the Year nominee
  • Bank Street College of Education’s Best Books of the Year for Children and Adults 2014
  • Greater Victoria Public Library Best Picture Books of 2013
  • TD Reading Club selection 2013
  • Scholastic Reading Club Selection

AUDREY (COW)

  • 2015 Governor General’s Award nominee
  • 2015 Rocky Mountain Book Award nominee
  • 2015 Red Cedar Award nominee
  • 2015 Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Award nominee
  • 2016 Diamond Willow Award nominee
  • 2015-2016 Maine Student Book Award nominee
  • 2016-2017 Chocolate Lily Award nominee
  • Kirkus Best Children’s Book of 2014
  • CBC Children’s Book Panel Selection for Winter 2014
  • Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Science Fiction, Fantasy & Adventure 2014
  • New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading & Sharing 2014
  • Today’s Parent Top 10 Middle Grade Books of 2014
  • Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Books of 2014 for Readers Who Like Quirky
  • Canadian Children’s Book Centre Summer Reading List 2015
  • Amazon.ca Best Books of November for Children and Teens

ALPHABETTER

  • 2008 Shining Willow Award nominee
  • Chosen by BC government to be distributed to 50,000 three-year-olds in the province as part of  the “Ready, Set, Learn” literacy program
  • 2007 Canadian Library Association – Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award nominee
  • 2007 Ontario Library Association – Best Bet choice
  • CBC Radio – Sounds Like Canada – Top Picture Book Pick 2007
  • Canadian Children’s Book Centre “Our Choice” 2007
  • Vancouver Public Library “Perfect Present List” 2006

THINGS ARE LOOKING GRIMM, JILL

  • Winner of 2008 Silver Birch Express Award (Forest of Reading)
  • 2006 Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award nominee
  • Canadian Toy Testing Council Recommended Books 2007
  • CCBC Our Choice selection 2007

PUSSYCAT, PUSSYCAT, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

  • 2012 Marilyn Baillie CCBC Award nominee
  • 2012 BC Book Prize nominee
  • 2012-2013 Chocolate Lily Award nominee
  • 2013-2014 Rainforest of Reading Award nominee

THE VERY, VERY FAR NORTH

  • 2020 North Carolina Battle of the Books selection
  • 2021 Alberta Rocky Mountain Book Award nominee
  • 2020 One Book, One School selection for International School of Dundee
  • 2022 Colorado Children’s Book Award nominee
  • 2021 One Book, One School selection for Meridian and Prairie Hills elementary schools, Colorado, Parish Episcopal School, Texas, Stepney Elementary, Connecticut

JUST BEYOND THE VERY, VERY FAR NORTH

  • 2021 BC & Yukon Book Prize nominee

SUCH A PRINCE

  • 2009 Blue Spruce Award nominee

THAT ONE SPOOKY NIGHT

  • 2013-2014 Hackamatack Award nominee
  • 2012 Junior Library Guild Selection

DREAM BOATS

  • 2014-2015 Chocolate Lily Award nominee
  • Huffington Post Best Picture Books of 2013
  • Canadian Toy Testing Council 2014 Award Winning Books List
  • Reading Rainbow – 15 First Picture Book Gift Ideas for Children’s Book Week
  • CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens 2013

DOG NIGHT AT THE STORY ZOO

  • 2019 Oy Vey! Funniest Children’s Book Award – Honour Book
  • CBC Radio – North by Northwest – Must Have Book List for 2017
  • Today’s Parent – Hot Picks for early readers, 2017