Barbara Gowan received the Arizona Children’s Author Award for her G is for Grand Canyon the same day: The award is a traditional Native American storyteller. It’s utterly gorgeous. (And I’d always wanted a storyteller figure above my desk, too!) Others later pointed out for me that a single singing figure, with a single child in her lap, is particularly especially appropriate for Bones of Faerie. And this is me with author Jennifer J. Stewart (jennifer_j_s and illustrator Lynne Avril, who were up there signing their The Twelve Days of Christmas in Arizona: As you can tell, we children’s writers are quite a dignified bunch. 🙂
I still smile every time I look at my storyteller. Thank you again, Arizona librarians–it truly is an honor.