Awards & Recognition

1994 Horn Book Guide:
Fiction Rating 3, Recommended, Satisfactory in Style, Content, and/or Illustration.

Recipient of Canada's 1995 Children's Choice

Silver Birch Award

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/lisez-sur-le-sujet/015020-6018-e.html

http://www.canlitawards.com/silverbirch.html

http://cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/people/Reimer_Mavis/year.cfm

The 1995 Society of School Librarians' Award for International Best Book for k-6

1995 Georgia Book Award Nominee

1996 nominee for South Carolina Association Of School Librarian's
"Children's Book Award"

Kentucky Bluegrass Award, 1996 ; Nominee

http://kba.nku.edu/lists/1996.shtml

Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K--Grade 6, 1997

National Council of Teachers of English; United States

The 1998 BILBY Award (Books I love Best Yearly)

Younger Reader Category

(The Queeensland branch of The Children's Book Council of Australia award)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilby_Award_Winners

http://www.pa.ash.org.au/cbc/bilbyawards/deliver/content.asp?pid=7089

100 Books Too Good to Miss

School Library Journal, 9/1/1998

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA152997.html

Not Just for Children Any More, 1999

Children's Book Council; United States (Best Books)

http://www.childrenslit.com/childrenslit/th_teddy.html

Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, 2001

H.W. Wilson; United States

http://clcd.odyssi.com/cgi-bin/sirsi/search/r?dbs+child:@term+@isbn+0316806250