All Points Bulletin!
Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama won the NCSS Woodson Award Honor and is a Junior Library Guild selection! Also chosen by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance as a SIBA Okra Pick meaning it's a "Great Southern Book" and finalist for SIBA's Pat Conroy Award. Represented Alabama at the 2015 National Book Festival. Also recipient of the Parents' Choice Silver Honor and Mississippi Library Association Author Award. Nominated for state awards in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi.
Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama is available as the original hardcover picture book, in paperback, for Kindle, and at Scholastic Book Fairs.
As part of the Candlewick Biographies series aimed at older elementary students, The Secret World of Walter Anderson is available in paperback and hardcover as a 6"-x-9" chapter-book including an index, making it great for book reports and classroom sets. The original picture book is still available.
The many accolades for THE SECRET WORLD OF WALTER ANDERSON:
WINNER of the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
WINNER of the SIBA Book Award for Children's/YA! Southern Independent Bookseller Alliance includes stores from twelve states
WINNER of the Mississippi Library Association Author Award
Chosen to represent Alabama (2012) and Mississippi (2009) at the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival in Washington, D. C. On the CCBC Choices, the Best-of-the-Year list selected by the Cooperative Children's Book Center in Wisconsin. Chosen as an NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People by the National Council for the Social Studies and the Children's Book Council
KIRKUS Reviews selected The Secret World of Walter Anderson as one of the Best Children's Books giving it a Starred Review. Chosen by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance as a SIBA Okra Pick meaning it's a "Great Southern Book" and was a SIBA Bestseller
For more information about Walter Anderson, visit:
www.walterandersonmuseum.org
or
www.walteringlisanderson.com
And for more information about Candlewick Press, visit:
www.candlewick.com
For news of the Stimola Literary Studio:
www.stimolaliterarystudio.com