TIME OUT FOR MONSTERS! wins the Colorado Book Award! Congratulations to ALL!

I couldn't be more honored and thrilled. And I'm loving my cover bling!


Congratulations to my fellow finalists and all the winners! Here they are by category. Please join me in a rousing round of applause for all!

Anthology
Reclaiming School in the Aftermath of Trauma , edited by Carolyn Lunsford Mears (Palgrave Macmillian)
Biography
Letters from Berlin: A Story of War, Survival, and the Redeeming Power of Love and Friendship, by Kerstin Lieff and Margarete Dos (Lyons Press)
Children's Literature
Time Out for Monsters! , by Jean Reidy, illustrated by Robert Neubecker (Disney Hyperion)
Creative Nonfiction
Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life, by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher (University of Nebraska Press)
Crime/Mystery
KOP Killer, by Warren Hammond (TOR Books)
General Nonfiction
Full Body Burden , by Kristen Iversen (Crown Publishing Group)
Genre Fiction
The View from Here ,by Cindy Myers (Kensington Books)
History
The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea , by Walter R. Borneman (Little, Brown and Company)
Juvenile Literature
Katerina's Wish , by Jeannie Mobley (Simon & Schuster)
Literary Fiction
East of Denver, by Gregory Hill (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)
Pictorial
Crazy: A Creative and Personal Look at Mental Illness, edited by Michael Hanna and Tami Leino Hanna (Adams Place)
Poetry
Second Nature , by Jack Collom (Instance Press)
Young Adult Literature
Kissing Shakespeare, by Pamela Mingle (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)