Moonshot is a Sibert Honor Book

The annual wave of ALA awards hit shore this morning, and I am happy and honored that Moonshot is a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book. The book is in excellent company: Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream, by Tanya Lee Stone, is the Sibert Medal winner. The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer’s Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors, written by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tony Persiani, and Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip Hoose, are the other Honor Selections. The ALA press release is here. Thank you to this year’s Robert F. Sibert committee!

Hinky-Pink, or Blue, or Red, or…

To be honest, I have no idea whether anyone ever makes use of the coloring pages up on my web site. But I don’t let that stop me, and the sort of recent news that The Hinky-Pink is on the 2010-2011 Texas Bluebonnet Master List has spurred me finally to post some Hinky-Pink coloring pages, something I’ve been meaning to do since the book came out. (Sometimes I get behind.) You can color a princess in a dress, or you can color Anabel, or you can color some architecture. Or you can color all three. All are up on my web site, ready for downloading and crayons, here.