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• Life in the Ghetto, by Anika D. Thomas, was presented a
Special Recognition Award by the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Foundation.
• Who Owns the Sun?, by Stacy Chbosky, was made into an award-winning,
live-action film by Disney Educational Productions.
• The Half & Half Dog, by Lisa Gross, was chosen by the
editors of Newsweek as one of the Fifteen Best Children's
Books of the 1988 Christmas season.
• A Stone Promise, by Cara Reichel. Cara enjoyed presenting
an autographed copy of her book to President and Mrs. George Bush
in the Rose Garden of the White House.
• Joshua Disobeys, by six-year-old Dennis Volmer, is featured
as a fine example of a picture-story book in the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Treasures To Share Library Series. Dennis is also listed in the
Guinness World Records as the youngest author/illustrator of a
commercially published book.
• Fogbound, by Steven Shepard, inspired an orchestral score
that was composed by Stanford University professor and conductor, Dr.
Arthur Barnes. The premiere performance was presented by the Pops Orchestra
at the Lincoln Arts Festival.
• World War Won, by Dav Pilkey. Dav has now become
one of America's most popular creators of children's books and has had
over 26 more books published.
• Elmer the Grump, by Elizabeth Haidle. Elizabeth has gone
on to illustrate 16 other books that have been published, and she had
contracts to illustrate 10 more.
• A Special Day, by Dubravaka Kolanovic. Dubravaka returned
to her home in Croatia where she has illustrated 3 more books that have
been published in her country.
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