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If you work in a Tucson-area school or are involved in kid-focused community group, I’d love to come for a visit! Book readings, signings, activities, nature walks… what do you have in mind? Helping kids cultivate a love for storytelling, writing, our desert, and nature in general is a passion of mine so contact me to discuss a visit/event.

Sensing the importance of recognizing authors and illustrators whose work captures the uniqueness of Arizona and the Southwest, Judy Goddard, the founder of Libraries, Ltd., worked with members of the Arizona State Library Association in 1983 to establish an award for excellence in books about Arizona for children — The Judy Goddard Award

One award is presented each year to the author/illustrator whose work best meets the criteria for either children or young adults. The most important criteria are literary and/or artistic merit and that the work features or is closely identified with Arizona and the surrounding regions.

Read the full article here.

The Pima County Public Library’s Southwest Books of the Year considers titles published during the calendar year that are about Southwest subjects, or are set in the Southwest.

The panel of reviewers—subject specialists and voracious consumers of Southwest literature all— selected The Giving Tree of the Desert as one of winners for Children’s Literature and it has been included in their annual publication, Southwest Books of the Year 2023.

More information is available on the Library website.