JERON ASHFORD FRAME was given the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer award for this lovely, imaginative, text. She lives near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with her family. R. GREGORY CHRISTIE is a three-time recipient of the American Library Association's Corretta Scott King Award honor and illustrator of Tricycle Press' A CHANCE TO SHINE. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
- Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award - Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Book of the Year - Claudia Lewis Award --Bank Street College of Education - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 2003 Blue Ribbon - 2004 Best of the Best List--Chicago Public Library - 2004 Carolyn W. Field Award Honor Book--Pennsylvania Library Association - Featured on the PBS/WGBH show Between the Lions Debut author Frame and consistently masterful Christie riff on the range of human emotions with the agility of longtime collaborators, and the result is a book that truly sings. -Publishers Weekly Readers and listeners alike will enthusiastically respond to this book and instantly identify with the sentiments expressed. -School Library Journal This is a dramatic partnership of text and images with strong curricular uses, and it will give young readers and listeners a simple way to express feelings and emotions that may often leave them wordless. -Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Book of the Year Claudia Lewis Award --Bank Street College of Education Bulletin of the Center for Children s Books 2003 Blue Ribbon 2004 Best of the Best List--Chicago Public Library 2004 Carolyn W. Field Award Honor Book--Pennsylvania Library Association Featured on the PBS/WGBH show Between the Lions Debut author Frame and consistently masterful Christie riff on the range of human emotions with the agility of longtime collaborators, and the result is a book that truly sings. Publishers Weekly Readers and listeners alike will enthusiastically respond to this book and instantly identify with the sentiments expressed. School Library Journal This is a dramatic partnership of text and images with strong curricular uses, and it will give young readers and listeners a simple way to express feelings and emotions that may often leave them wordless. Bulletin of the Center for Children s Books Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Book of the Year Claudia Lewis Award --Bank Street College of Education Bulletin of the Center for Children s Books 2003 Blue Ribbon 2004 Best of the Best List--Chicago Public Library 2004 Carolyn W. Field Award Honor Book--Pennsylvania Library Association Featured on the PBS/WGBH show Between the Lions Debut author Frame and consistently masterful Christie riff on the range of human emotions with the agility of longtime collaborators, and the result is a book that truly sings. Publishers Weekly Readers and listeners alike will enthusiastically respond to this book and instantly identify with the sentiments expressed. School Library Journal This is a dramatic partnership of text and images with strong curricular uses, and it will give young readers and listeners a simple way to express feelings and emotions that may often leave them wordless. Bulletin of the Center for Children s Books