Awards

Tiara's Hat Parade cover art

TIARA’S HAT PARADE

By Kelly Starling Lyons | Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

  • 2019 CHRISTOPHER award, books for young people
  • WSRA Children’s Literature: Picture This 2021 Recommendation List
  • Penn GSE Graduate School of Education, The Best Books for Young Readers of 2020
  • Black Caucus of the American Library Association BCALA, 2020
  • Best of the Best Booklist
  • Read Across America, Picture Book of the Month March 2021

Follow me down to nicodemus town

By A. LaFaye | Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

  • Kansas state notable award

Lucky Beans

By Becky Bertha | Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

  • 2012-2013 Arkansas Diamond Primary Award
  • Named one of the CCBC Choices 2011, the annual best-of-the-year list of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC)
  • Named one of the 2010 Notable Books for Children list
  • Named one of the New York Public Library’s Best 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, 2010.

First Peas to the Table

By Susan Grigsby | Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

  • 2013 Growing Good Kids Excellence in Children’s Literature Award
  • Selected by the Nebraska Farm Bureau’s as the 2012 Children’s Agricultural Book of the year for grades K-3
  • 2013 Learning Magazine’s Teachers Choice Award

In the Garden with Dr. Carver

By Susan Grigsby | Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

  • 2011 Growing Good Kids Excellence in Children’s Literature Award
  • 2012-2013 Children’s Triple Crown Gallery Award Nominee
  • A 2011 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
  • A 2011 Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education

Josias, Hold the Book

By Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren | Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

  • 2006 Américas Award
  • 2006 Bank Street College of Education
  • Eastern Washington University Excellent Choice
  • 2006 Growing Good Kids Award
  • Maine’s A Capital Read

No Mush Today

By Sally Derby | Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

  • Best Children’s Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education

Fatuma’s New Cloth

By Leslie Bulion | Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

  • 2003 Children’s Africana Book Award

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