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Ta Dah!
I’ll be compiling a monthly list of new books, awards, and appearances of our illustrious INK members.
This being December, we don’t have any Oscar ceremonies to report, but we have a boatload of new and notable books and awards.
NEW BOOKS
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Homesteading: Settling America's Heartland photos by William Muñoz (Missoula, MT, Mountain Press)April Pulley Sayre, Let's Go Nuts! Seeds We Eat (Beach Lane/S&S) David Schwartz,  Rotten Pumpkin  (Creston Books)
Karen Romano Young, Bats and Rats: A Humanimal Doodles Book (Collins Big Cat)
More new books are among those below…
AWARDS AND NOTABLES

Ann Bausum: Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours (National Geographic
• Jane Addams Children's Book Honor Award for older readers
• Carter G. Woodson Award (Middle Level) from National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)

 Susan Goodman: It's a Dog's Life: How Man's Best Friend Sees, Hears, and Smells the World (Roaring Brook Press)
• nominated for the Beehive Book Award for 2014. • The Center for Children’s Books (U of Illinois), 2013 Guide Book to Gift Books for kids.



Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan:  The Mad Potter/ George E. Ohr: Eccentric Genius  (Neal Porter Book/ Roaring Brook Press)

 • SLJ Best Books 2013 Nonfiction • Booklist Youth Editor's Choice 2013


Deborah Heligman, The Boy Who Loved Math: the Improbable Life of Paul Erdos (Roaring Brook Press)• New York Times Notable Children's Book of 2013• Kirkus Best Books of 2013. • Book List Top 10 Science and Health Book for Youth• Booklist and Booklinks Top 30 (1 of 2 in Mathematics) lasting connection in the K-8 classroom. • Best Jewish Children's Book by Tablet Magazine. 
Steve Jenkins, The Animal Book (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) • Kirkus Best Children’s Book of 2013 • National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book

Steve Jenkins and Robin Page, Animals Upside Down (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)• Kirkus Best Children’s Books of 2013 and on the  • National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book • California Reading Association Eureka! Honor Award.





Barbara Kerley, The World is Waiting for You (National Geographic)

• Kirkus Best Children’s Book of 2013





Dorothy Hinshaw Patent: Dogs on Duty: Soldiers' Best Friends on the Battlefield and Beyond (Walker Children’s Books) • Mitten Award, Michigan Library Association
Elizabeth Rusch: Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit up the World (Candlewick)• Gelette Burgess Award for biography.


April Pulley Sayre, Eat Like a Bear , illustrated by Steve Jenkins (Henry Holt) • National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book
April Pulley Sayre, Here Come the Humpbacks! (Charlesbridge)• National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book • Editor’s Choice, Science Books and Films. 
April was also a Picture Book Month Champion.  Read her blog on that forum here.http://picturebookmonth.com/2013/11/why-picture-books-are-important-by-april-pulley-sayre/

Steve Sheinkin, Lincoln’s Grave Robbers (Scholastic)• Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2013
David Schwartz,  Where Else In the Wild?  (Tricycle Press) Finalist Grand Canyon Reader Award (Arizona Children's Choice Award)• NY Public Library's infographic of the Best Children's Books of 2013


Melissa Stewart,  No Monkeys, No Chocolate  (Charlesbridge)• National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book

Melissa Stewart: A Place for Turtles (Peachtree)• National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book

Tanya Lee Stone,  Courage Has No Color:  The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers  (Candlewick)
• Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2013• Kirkus Best Books of 2013• Texas Tayshas Reading List• Parents' Choice Award Recommended Title• Tennessee's Volunteer State Book Award List


Tanya Lee Stone, Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? (Henry Holt)• Parents Magazine Best Nonfiction Picture Books 2013• National Science Teacher's Association 2013 Outstanding Science Trade Book • Junior Library Guild• Spring 2013 Kids Indie Next List