We Sing From the Heart wins Julia Ward Howe prize for children's literature!

We Sing from the Heart has been selected as the 2024 winner of our Julia Ward Howe prize for children’s literature! This is the first award that I’ve won outright. I am thrilled and humbled!

The Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Book Awards are awarded annually by the Boston Authors Club to authors living within 100 miles of Boston for books in both the adult and young readers’ categories.

Thank you to the Boston Authors Club for this honor and congratulations to all the other winners and honorees!

My books:

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The Traveling Taco: The Amazing and Surprising Journey of Many of Your Favorite Foods

Reading Rockets’ Summer Reading Guide 2025

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Fortune Cookies for Everyone! (Smithsonian): The Surprising Story of the Tasty Treat We Love to Eat

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We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court

ALSC Notable Children’s Book
2024 Julia Ward Howe Prize for Children’s Literature Winner
2025 Carter G. Woodson Book Award Middle Level Honoree
Orbis Pictus Recommended Book for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
California Eureka Non-Fiction Award Honor Book
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year 2025
Junior Library Guild Gold Selection