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One Thousand Tracings has been added to several 2009-2010 State Reading Award lists including the Prairie Pasque Award in South Dakota, the William Allen White Children’s Book Award in Kansas, and the Misouri Show Me Readers Award. It was also on the list for the 2008-2009 North Carolina Children’s Book Award (NCCBA).

Most of these are lists of about 10-12 books—I believe all of these are voted on by school kids from 1st to 5th grades (varies by award). It’s great that so many kids will be reading Tracings! I added some links to the award logos above for more information on each of these. It’s really an amazing honor for Lita and Tracings to be included on such fantastic lists of books! Thanks Missouri, North Carolina, South Dakota and Kansas!

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Lita just returned from a fantastic two day school visit in Danville, NH where she received a nice write-up in the local paper. Just last week we finished her new 2009-2010 School Visit Packet. It has all the information for planning the perfect school visit!

Lita has added three new talks to her school visit program:

• Pennies for Elephants—Connecting students to local news by becoming a part of it
• Digging Deep to Find Interesting Sources for Historical Stories
• Yellowstone Moran—Journaling and Sketching

And she will continue to offer these three talks:

• Path to becoming an author and illustrator
• The Story Behind One Thousand Tracings
• Daydreams, Digs and Dinosaurs!

For all of the new information, including descriptions of all the presentations and how to tailor them to meet the needs of diverse groups, download and print the school visit packet here or check out the School Visits section at LitaJudge.com.

Danville: Danville Elementary School third-grader Jacob Post, 9, listens as author/illustrator Lita Judge shows how rough sketches become finished artwork in a presentation Monday at the school.
Jan Seeger /Eagle Tribune Staff Photographer

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We got the news the same day my lovely editor, Kendra, sent me the first F&Gs! This is a story I’ve wanted to do since I was 4 years old so I’m really excited to know that JLG liked the book. Yellowstone Moran will be a September 2009 release with Viking.

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