1981   Animated Film HORSE TALE nominated for student Academy Award
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
1984-85   ADI Awards for computer animation
1985   Woman of Achievement in Advertising, Women in Communications
1988-89   Illustrations included in Art Directors Calendar
1989   Illustration wins Best of Show, Fort Wayne Art Directors Annual Show
1989   ADDY Citation of Excellence for illustrated Ad
1991   TIME TRAIN named a best book by School Library Journal and Parent's Magazine.  A best book of season by Chicago Tribune and New Yorker
1992   Portfolio highlighted CHILDREN'S WRITER'S & ILLUSTRATOR'S MARKET
1992   Celebrate Literacy Award from International Reading Association
1992   TIME TRAIN named Best Children's Science Fiction Picture Book by DucKon
1992   Participant 2nd Annual Festival of Children's Books
The Art Institute of Chicago
1993   TIME TRAIN a Trumpet Club selection
1993   SISTER YESSA'S STORY a Junior Library Guild selection
1993   TIME TRAIN featured on READING RAINBOW (PBS)
1993- 94   TIME TRAIN & SISTER YESSA'S STORY nominated for State Book Awards
TIME TRAIN & THE LEGEND OF THE PERSIAN CARPET on Indiana state Read Aloud list.
1995   THE LEGEND OF THE PERSIAN CARPET Afrikanns, Xhosa, and Zula
1996   TIME TRAIN featured on STORYTIME (PBS)
1996   Honored as Woman of Achievement YWCA
2003   Profiled by Eric Olsen for WPTA-TV Channel 21 ABC Affiliate
2003   THE GIANT selected by BOOKSENSE 76
2003   THE GIANT recommended by PBS Teacher Source
2004   FOSSIL chosen as a November 2004 Great Read Aloud by Booklinks
2004   FOSSIL recommended by the Field Guide for Parenting
2005   Profiled in April issue Fort Wayne Magazine
2006   Chosen as President of Designer Craftsmen Guild
 

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