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Breaking News!

Stanley's Wild Ride has been nominated for the California Young Reader Medal for 2008-2009. Good dog, Stanley!

The Farm Team is a nominee for the 2008 Ontario Blue Spruce Award. Go, team!

Goodnight Sweet Pig has been chosen for the Toronto Public Library’s new First & Best Booklist (Top Ten books of 2007 for ages 0 to 5).

As part of the B.C. Achievement Foundation "Time to Read" Award, every child starting kindergarten in British Columbia in the fall of 2007 received a copy of Stanley's Party. That's 50,000 kids!

Stanley's Wild Ride has been named a 2007 Honour Book for the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.

Appearances

Recent and upcoming appearances include:

	January 14, 2008: Victoria Children's Literature Roundtable, Victoria, B.C.
	February 18 - March 5, 2008: Hasta la vista! On holiday in Mexico!
	April 7 – 14, 2008: School & library visits in Toronto in conjunction with Blue Spruce Award.
	April 15 – 18, 2008: School & library visits in Ottawa in conjunction with Blue Spruce Award.
	May 4 - 8, 2008: International Reading Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia
	May 31, 2008 & surrounding dates: BookFest (Vancouver Island Children's Book Festival), Nanaimo, B.C.
	June 9 - 13, 2008: School visits in Kelowna, B.C.
	November 6 - 8, 2008: Kaleidescope Children's Literature Conference, Calgary, Alberta
	Fall/2008 through spring/2009: School visits in Mission, B.C.

To book a school or library visit around any of the above appearances, please visit my talks page.