More great news! A Horse Named Sky has been awarded the 2024 Oregon Spirit Book Award by the Oregon Council of Teachers of English. I’m so grateful for all the hours they poured into choosing a great slate of locally grown books to highlight. I am even more grateful for all they do to support the teachers that make literacy happen year after year in spite of mounting obstacles.
My thanks also to illustrator Kirby Fagan who brilliantly captured the landscape of the Great Basin, Virginia Range, and Sierra Nevada, and the many moods of Sky and his family. Horses are not easy to draw. I’m so glad they chose you to illustrate. Thanks to the lovely team at Greenwillow for once again crafting a gorgeous book.
A Horse Named Sky will be going to paperback at the end of August, and as always, if you are looking for a signed and personalized copy, please contact Annie Blooms bookstore to arrange it. We ship anywhere in the US.
A week from today I will be at the Oregon Council of Teachers of English fall conference to accept the Oregon Spirit book award for The Turn of the Tide. I’m just thrilled to be in the company of the Oregon authors honored this year. Many of these women have been friends and mentors for years, women whose work I’m proud to recommend at the bookstore and books from which I’ve learned much about the craft of writing. Thank you to all those hard working English teachers who served on the award committee and all those who share books in their classrooms.