Awards

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 Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport

National Jewish Book Award Finalist

2024 Social Justice Literature Award Recommended Reading List

ALA Notable Children's Book 2023

2023 Bank Street Books Best Children's Book

New York Public Library Best Books for Kids

Notable Books for a Global Society List Selection

2023 Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature Best Books of the Year

Orbis Pictus Recommended Book 2023

School Library Journal Best Book 2023

Texas Bluebonnet Masterlist

American Illustration 42

Original Art Show 2023

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I is for IMMIGRANTS

SILVER Medal, Society of Illustrators (Book Category), 2022

American Illustration 41

2022 Bank Street Books Best Children's Book of the Year

2022 Capitol Choices Outstanding Titles List

2022 Notable Social Studies Trade Books List

Original Art Show 2021

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Joni: The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell

The BRAW amazing Bookshelf, Bologna Children's Book Fair

2020 Best Books for Kids & Teens, The Canadian Children's Book Center

A 2020 Mighty Girl's Best Book of the Year

America Illustration 40

Best of 2020, Metropolitan & 24A Magazines

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Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship

Sybil Award finalist, 2019

Charlotte Huck Honor, 2019

ALA Notable Children's Book 2019

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The Case For Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage

Children’s Book Council’s 2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 

NAIBA Carla Cohen Free Speech Award 2015 

NAPPA 2015 Award 

Junior Library Guild Selection

Communication Arts 2015 Award of Excellence 

Original Art Show 2015 

2016 Bank Street Books Best Children's Book of the Year

2016 ILA-CBC Children's Choice List 

2016 Amelia Bloomer List

 

Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass

2017 Amelia Bloomer List

Original Art Show 2016

 

2016 Mills Tannenbaum Award for Excellence in Children's Literacy

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B is for Brooklyn DOE 365 Literacy Campaign poster

(recommended Pre-K classroom book for 2015-16)

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Exhibitions

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PICTURE THE DREAM: Civil Rights' Children's Book Art, The New York Historical Society, NYC, Spring 2022

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The Eric Carle Museum of Art, Amherst, Ma, March 2021

 

The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, June 2020 

 

Richard C. Von Hess Illustration Gallery (solo show), University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2019

 

Original Art Show, Society of Illustrators, New York, NY., 2023, 2021, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2011, 2008, 2006 

 

BLUE: Songs Are Like Tattoos (solo show), Diana Kane Boutique, October 2018

 

The Blue Wave Project (The Pen & Ink Brigade), Diana Kane Boutique, October 2018

 

Red Envelope Show (group show), Flushing Town Hall, Queens, January 2019

 

WOMEN MAKING A MARK (group show), University of Indianapolis, January 2018

 

Feminist Icon Show (group show), Art Slope, Diana Kane Boutique, Brooklyn, NY,  2016

 

The Case for Loving (pop-up show), Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, December 2014 

 

BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY (solo show, youth wing), Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 2013

 

Clients

Scholastic Press, Knopf Books for Young Readers, Harper Collins, Macmillan/Henry Holt, Chronicle Books, Carolrhoda Books, Gibbs Smith Publishing, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Holiday House, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Barefoot Books, Abrams, School Library Journal, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Museum, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Out NY Kids, KidLit TV, Wide Rainbow