INK Author News for April

 NEW BOOKS

Beneath the Sun by Melissa Stewart, ill. by Constance Bergum (Peachtree)

A Place for Butterflies by Melissa Stewart (revised edition, Peachtree)

LATEST AWARDS

The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan (Roaring Brook)

            • Orbis Pictus Recommended

            • Booklist Best Book

            • School Library Journal Best Book

            • CBC/NCSS Notable for Social Studies

            • Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Master List

The Animal Book by Steve Jenkins (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

            • John Burroughs Riverby Award

            • featured title, New England Book Show eBook category.

The Mystery of Darwin's Frog by Marty Crump, ill. by Steve Jenkins and Edel Rodriguez (Boyds Mills)

            • John Burroughs Riverby Award

Animals Upside Down by Steve Jenkins & Robin Page (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
            • featured selection, New England Book Show

Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives by Elizabeth Rusch (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

            • 2014 CCBC Choices

Volcano Rising by Elizabeth Rusch (Charlesbridge)

            • 2014 CCBC Choices

Rotten Pumpkin, by David Schwartz (Creston Books)

            • 2013 Distinguished Book, Association of Children's Librarians of Northern California

Courage Has No Color, by Tanya Lee Stone (Candlewick)

            • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature for Youth/Teens

APPEARANCES

April 3-5 Melissa Stewart will speak at the National Science Teachers Association conference in Boston, MA.

April 7: Deborah Heiligman will speak at the Simons Foundation in New York City: Lyrical And Logical: A Reading of Children's Books About Math.  

April 9: Steve Jenkins and his co-author Robin Page will speak at the TLA (Texas Library Association) Conference in San Antonio, TX.

April 10-11 Melissa Stewart will speak at the Massachusetts Reading Association annual meeting in Quincy, MA.

April 10-11: David Schwartz will speak at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics National Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

April 10-12: Deborah Heiligman will speak at the Festival of Faith and Writing, Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI.

April 26: Steve Jenkins will speak at the 32nd annual Spring Festival of Children’s Literature at Frostburg State, MD.

April 26: Susan Kuklin will be guest speaker at the 2014 Stamford Literary Competition Award Ceremony, Stamford, CT.