I woke up to wonderful news. “Worm and Caterpillar are Friends” (Simon Spotlight/SimonKIDS) was selected by The New York Public Library as a Best Book of 2023!!! I’m honored to be included on this incredible book list, and grateful to all of you who’ve shown me resilient friendship through a year of BIG change.

The full list is here: https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/best-books/kids

UPDATE! Both Oregon and Chicago, Illinois library systems have tapped “Worm and Caterpillar are Friends” as a Best of 2023 Book! Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books of 2023 (#cplbest) HERE

@oregonlibraries mock Geisel Award nominee list HERE:

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Update to the update! Add Kirkus Reviews Best of 2023 to that list, Graphic Novels and Comics division HERE.

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Worm and Caterpillar are Friends” made this amazing @fusenumber8 list of recommended early readers! “BOTH easy books and early chapter books are the hardest types of titles to write for kids. That’s why it gives me so much pleasure to present you today with this incredible list of really and truly magnificent examples of the form. Read them. Learn from them. Then let your kids learn from them as well.” #earlyreaders #earlyliteracy #bestbooksof2023 @simonkids

Here’s the full list of lists! Thank you for helping “Worm and Caterpillar are Friends” fly out into the world!

An ALA YMA Geisel “Dr. Seuss” Honor Winner!

An ALSC Notable Book…

A Cybils Award Winner

American Libraray Association, Best Graphic Novel for Children Pre-K to 2nd Grade FULL LIST

Worm and Caterpillar are Friends has been listed as “recommended” by the Kansas National Education Association (NEA) Reading Circle Commission and is on the 2024 Kansas NEA Reading Circle Recommended Titles list!

“Worm and Caterpillar Are Friends” was chosen as one of Florida’s 2024-2025 Sunshine State Young Reader Award Jr. (SSYRA Jr.) books! https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-jr.html

Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of 2023 list!