Some terrific news nowadays (November 17),from the 2018 conference of the National Council of Teachers of English!
Traci Sorell's We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga was selected for NCTE's 2018 Orbis Pictus Honor Award!
The announcement was made at the awards event. Celeste Trimble tweeted this photo when Traci's book went onto the screen:
And over at the Charlesbridge (publisher of Traci's book) booth on the exhibit floor, the folks staffing the booth probably did a cheerful dance and build a homemade sticker on the book! Here's a photo from there:[br]
See those stars on the right? Those indicate starred reviews from the review journals: Kirkus, or Horn Book,School Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness.
NCTE's award is for nonfiction. Congratulations, or Traci! This is wonderful news![br]
And.... back at 7:09 PM to say that I went over to the Charlesbridge twitter account to share the URL for this post and they've got a new photo up,of the official seal:
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