Yvonne with Moonbeam Award
Moonbeam Medal
Big thrill!!!! On October 10, 2009 Dragon Fire, Ocean Mist received the bronze medal in the Best First Chapter Book category of the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards!! The awards ceremony was in Charleston, West Virginia at the West Virginia Book Festival. It was a real thrill and very inspiring for me to be in the company of so many wonderful authors and illustrators.
This year there were over 1000 books submitted for the awards. The Moonbeam Awards are given to increase recognition of exemplary children’s books and their creators and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading. The entries are judged by expert panels of youth educators, librarians, booksellers and book reviewers. Wow!!! To learn more about the awards check www.independentpublisher.com. For a first time author and illustrator like me this is totally COOL!
Dragons of the Pacific NW