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Awards & Honors

2010 Texas 2 x 2 Reading List Selection, The Busy Tree
2009 Giverny Award for Best Children's Science Picture Book, Forest Bright, Forest Night
2009 Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award winner, There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea
2009 Texas Mockingbird Award nominee, There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea
2008 Southwest Book of the Year list, There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea, Tucson Pima Public Libraries
2008 New Mexico Book Award Finalist, There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea
2008 Wyoming Reads 2008 Book Selection, There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea
Grand Canyon Reader Award Honor, Way Out in the Desert
Grand Canyon Reader Award Honor, The Seed and the Giant Saguaro
Book Sense Summer Pick, Forest Bright, Forest Night
Teachers' Choice Award for Best Picture Book - Learning Magazine, Forest Bright, Forest Night
Parents' Choice Award, Somewhere in the Ocean
Tucson Pima Public Library Southwest Book of the Year, The Seed and the Giant Saguaro
Governor Napolitano's Book Program: The Seed and the Giant Saguaro selected by the Governor to be given to 94,000 first grade students in the state of Arizona.
New Jersey Governor's Book Club for First Grade - Over in the Garden
Association for Public Lands Media and Partnership Award, The Little Creek
Tucson Pima Public Libraries Southwest Books of the Year, The Little Creek
Harcourt Brace First Grade Reading Anthology, Somewhere in the Ocean
Barnes & Noble featured title, state wide, AZ There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea June 2007

WHAT A FABULOUS WAY TO WRAP UP 2009! There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea named Arizona's Grand Canyon Reader Award winner, honored at the Arizona Library Association's annual conference. THANK YOU, Arizona students, teachers and librarians.

left to right: author Jennifer Ward, illustrator Steve Gray