SUMMER IS FOR COUSINS is a Bank Street College Irma Black Silver Medalist!

I’m so honored that SUMMER IS FOR COUSINS is a Bank Street College of Education Center for Children’s Literature 2024 Irma Black Silver Medalist!

The Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature (Irma Black Award) goes to an outstanding book for young children—a book in which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole. The Irma Black Award is unusual in that children are the final judges of the winning book. Thousands of children in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the United Arab Emirates participated in the voting process!

You can watch my acceptance speech here.