2021 Skipping Stones Honor Award!

Super awesome news alert! The Other Side has been named a 2021 Skipping Stones Honor Award winner! If you don’t know Skipping Stones Magazine, the books selected for the honor “promote an understanding of cultures, cultivate cooperation and/or encourage a deeper awareness of nature, ecology, and diversity. They foster respect for multiple viewpoints and closerContinue reading “2021 Skipping Stones Honor Award!”

What If Soldiers up for a Willow Award!

What lovely news that What If Soldiers Fought with Pillows? is up for a Diamond Willow Award, the young readers’ choice awards from the province of Saskatchewan. What If Soldiers is my first nonfiction book, and what a thrill to have it honoured this way. For more information and a look at all the nominees,Continue reading “What If Soldiers up for a Willow Award!”

Writing about the Holocaust for Book News

My latest article for Canadian Children’s Book News is now available online. “The Emotional Impact of Writing About the Holocaust” is a personal essay along with interviews from Monique Polak, Emil Sher and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. It was a difficult piece to write, but I am so pleased with how it turned out. I hopeContinue reading “Writing about the Holocaust for Book News”

The biggest compliment of them all

Books get all sorts of reviews, the good and the bad. This week, What If Soldiers Fought with Pillows? received a review that was beyond good. It was amazing. Incredible. Fantastic. I am still shaking. Booklist, from the American Library Association, said What If Soldiers is “a book that should be paired with John Lennon’sContinue reading “The biggest compliment of them all”