Aloha, Friends,

I’m so honored to share that ANYWHERE BUT PARADISE is a finalist for the 2016 Texas Institute of Letters Award for the Best Children’s Book (H-E-B/Jean Flynn Award). And that my lovely friends, Liz Garton Scanlon (THE GREAT GOOD SUMMER) and Don Tate (POET: THE REMARKABLE STORY OF GEORGE MOSES HORTON) are also finalists in this category.

Here are finalists for the other Children’s and YA award:

H-E-B Best Young Adults Book 

David Bowles, The Smoking Mirror (IFWG Publishing), Brian Yansky, Utopia, Iowa (Candlewick); Rene S. Perez II, Seeing Off the Johns (Cinco Puntos Press)

Denton Record-Chronicle Award for Best Children’s Picture Book  

Pat Mora, The Remembering Day / El dia de los muertos (Arte Público Press); Kathi Appelt, Counting Crows (Atheneum Books for Young Readers); Chris Barton, The Nutcracker Comes to America (Millbrook Press)

Always,

Anne

PS Here’s the news release from the TIL for all of the finalists.