If You Give a T-Rex a Bone:  Finalist, "Best Children's Picture Book of the Year," ForeWord Magazine.

"The Peasant Prince" (Cricket Magazine, serialized December 2005/January 2006):  Nominated by Marianne Carus and the Cricket staff
for the 2006 Paul A. Wittey Short Story Award from the International Reading Association.

"Arthur's Toys" (Cicada, March 2005):  SCBWI 2005 Magazine Merit Award Runner-up.

Featured in "Meet Your Author," Cricket Magazine, January 2006.

"Rock Takes a Name" (Storyworks, November, 2004):  Finalist, Distinguished Achievement Award, Children's Fiction Periodicals, Association
of Educational Publishers, 2005.  Reprinted in Glencoe's "Backpacker Reader, Grade 6, Book 1," enrichment text for middle-school literature
program, Glencoe/McGraw Hill.

California Legacy Project Scholar, Heyday Books and Santa Clara University, Terry Beers, director.  CaliforniaLegacy.org.

Dark-Sparkle Tea and Other Bedtime Poems:  Excellent reviews in Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and on childrenslit.com

Good Babies:  Excellent reviews in Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, and on childrenslit.com

Basho and the River Stones:  Available from Scholastic Book Clubs as of 2006.  A Junior Library Guild selection, June, 2004.  Excellent reviews
in The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and a starred review in School Library Journal.  NCSS-CBC Notable
Social Studies Trade Book 2005.  Adapted and performed as a play by the Bret Harte Elementary School After-School Theater Project, Burbank,
CA, May 2006.  Selected for use in the "Character-Based Literacy Program" of the Markula Center for Applied Ethics of Santa Clara University;
the program currently serves over 10,000 elementary students at 350 sites in California.  Also selected for the Markula Center's "Build. Plant.
Grow," an inter-generational, inter-denominational character-education program, currently used by 35 churches and schools.  One of three
nominated books for the California Young Reader medal 2007-2008 (Picture Books for Older Readers Category).

"The Christmas Stick" (Spider, December 2003):  SCBWI 2003 Magazine Merit Award runner-up.

Tanuki's Gift:  Excellent boxed review with art in The New York Times, 9-21-03.  Included as a 2003 "Best Book of the Year," Nick Jr. Family
Magazine.  Irma Black Honor Book, 2003, Bank Street College of Education.  "Excellent 2003 Choices of Trade Books for Grades K-9," Marilyn
Carpenter PhD, Eastern Washington University (http://cehd.ewu.edu/faculty/mcarpenter/Booklist/2003.html).  "Japan Mythology Top 100
Best-Selling Books (www.orientalgate.org).  PBS Teacher Resource Recommended Book, 2003.  A 2004 Anne Izard Storyteller's Choice winner.
Asian Pacific American Honor for Literature, Children's and YA, 2004.  "Light One Little Candle" Suggested Book List (www.lightonelittle
candle.org).

Served as one of three judges for the picture-book category of Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award, 2002.

Basho and the Fox:  #10 on The New York Times best-seller list for children's books (11-5-00) and chosen by Smithsonian Magazine as a notable
book for children for 2000.  2001 Honor title, Storytelling World Award, Category 2:  Stories for Pre-Adolescent Listeners ("in recognition of
highest quality storytelling resources").  Irma Black Honor Book, 2001, Bank Street College of Education.  Children's Literature Choice List,
2001.  Children's Book Council "Not Just for Children Anymore" List, 2002.  Los Angeles' 100 Best Books, 2000, Library Services, Los Angeles
Unified School District and Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association.  Excellent 2003 Choice of Trade Books for Grades
K-9, Marilyn Carpenter PhD, Eastern Washington University (http://cehd.ewu.edu/faculty/mcarpenter/Booklist/2003.html).  Archived
Recommendation K-2 by PBS Teacher Resource (www.pbs.org).  Also earned great reviews from Daniel Pinkwater on NPR's "Weekend Edition"
(read aloud, 9-2-00), The Horn Book, The Ruminator, Booklist, ForeWord Magazine and School Library Journal.  Used as basis for May '02
presentation of the Virginia Tanner Creative Dance Program (K-12) of the University of Utah.  Selected for use in the "Character-Based Literacy
Program" of the Markula Center for Applied Ethics of Santa Clara University; the program currently serves over 10,000 elementary students at
350 sites in California.  Also selected for the Markula Center's "Build. Plant. Grow," an intergenerational, inter-denominational character-
education program, currently use by 35 churches and schools.  Adapted and performed as a play by the Bret Harte Elementary School
After-School Theater Project, Burbank, CA, May 2006.  Adapted as a play by Pat Turner of Vallecito Elementary School, San Rafael, CA, and presented spring 2006.

Story "Julie at the Fountain":  Originally appeared in Odyssey Magazine; featured in its entirety on New York Regents Fourth-Grade English
Language Arts Test, Winter, 1999.

Picture book Let's Call Him Lauwiliwili...:  Featured on children's television show "Gribich & Friends," American Independent Network, Winter,
1997.  New edition with accompanying CD, 2007.