Well gosh, after 30 years in the children's book game (I illustrated
my first book in 1984) I have
actually WON an award! A real actual 1st place with flowers and a cheque and
applause and everything!
It was the LIANZA Elsie Locke Medal for Non Fiction for
Wearable Wonders. I feel like it's o.k to crow a bit- I've waited a long time for this and the reward is all the sweeter; I couldn't be more thrilled! There is not much more to say
except thank you, from the bottom of my heart. That book is kind of a download
of my brain which is buzzing with joy right now.
Acknowledgment is
truly a marvelous inspirational thing :)
It was a great night- many thanks to LIANZA and their sponsors- Hell Pizza and The Children's Bookshop who sponsor the Elsie Locke Award. You have made my year!
Here is me and Melinda Syzmanik who won the Librarians Choice Award with her deeply poignant novel
A Winter's Day in 1939. If you haven't read it yet, you must!
