Awards + Accolades

A roundup of the awards and accolades my incredible clients have received for books I have sold on their behalf.

Picture Book Awards

Summer is for Cousins

illustrated by Abhi Alwar

  • Irma Black Award Silver Medalist 2024

Are You a Cheeseburger?

by Monica Arnaldo

  • Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award Winner 2023

  • Monarch Award Winner 2023

  • Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice Winner, K-Grade 2 2024

Mr. S.

by Monica Arnaldo

  • The Governor General’s Literary Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature - Illustrated Books 2023

  • Booklist’s Top of the List Picture Book Title 2023

Door by Door

illustrated by Meridth McKean Gimbel

  • Lambda Literary Award Finalist for LGBTQ+ Children’s Book Finalist 2024

The Only Way to Make Bread

illustrated by Sarah Gonzales

  • Ezra Jack Keats Award, Illustration 2024

  • Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award Finalist 2023

Novel Awards

Where I Can’t Follow

by Ashley Blooms

  • Weatherford Award Finalist for Best Books About Appalachia 2023

Calling for a Blanket Dance

by Oscar Hokeah

  • PEN/Hemingway Award Winner 2023

  • Reading the West Book Award Winner for Debut Fiction 2023

  • L.A. Times Book Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Finalist, 2023

  • Aspen Words Literary Prize Shortlist Selection 2023

  • Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Longlist Selection 2023

  • Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Shortlist Selection 2023

  • The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Longlist Selection 2023

  • New York Times Paperback Row Selection 2023

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

by Zoulfa Katouh

  • Beste boek voor Jongeren 2023 (vertaald) 

  • Amy Mathers Teen Book Award winner 2023 (CCBC)

  • Salon5 Suspense Youth Book Prize

  • International Bestseller (France, 12+ weeks)

  • Barnes & Noble Children's & YA Book Award Shortlist 2023

  • The British Book Awards (The Nibbies) Discover Book of the Year Shortlist 2023

  • The Governor General’s Literary Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature - Text 2023

  • White Pine Award, 1st Honor Book 2024

  • UK Literacy Association Book Award Longlist 2024

  • Young Quill’s Award Shortlist 2023

  • Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing Nominee 2024

  • Forest of Reading White Pine Award Nominee 2024

  • Warwickshire Teen Book Award Longlist 2023

  • Publishers Weekly “Flying Start” debut for 2022

  • Publishers Weekly Best YA Books of 2022

The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School

by Sonora Reyes

  • Lambda Literary Award Winner in LGBTQ+ Young Adult 2023

  • National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature 2022

  • Pura Belpré Honor Book 2023

  • The Walter Dean Myers Honor Book for Outstanding Teen Literature 2023

  • William C. Morris Award Finalist 2023

  • National Indie Bestseller (HC and PBK)

The Sharp Edge of Silence

by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum

  • Maine Literary Award Winner for Young People’s Literature 2024

  • MWA Edgar Allan Poe Award Finalist for Best Young Adult Novel 2024

That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams

  • Ignyte Award Finalist: Outstanding Novel, Young Adult 2024

  • Lambda Literary Award Finalist for LGBTQ+ Young Adult Fiction 2024

Short Story Awards

“Telling the Bees”

by Kat Howard

  • World Fantasy Award Finalist 2023