Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly has been nominated for the Virginia Readers’ Choice list for the 2009-2010 school year! That is so exciting for me. Now Velma has been honored in Maine, Maryland and California. My favorite part of this nomination is that Virginia and Velma start with the same letter. Maybe in the future I could write Velma Visits Virginia as one of her adVentures. V is for Victory. This is a great early holiday present for me. What do you think Velma should get for the holidays?
on Feb 6th, 2009 at 3:50 am
Congratulations, Alan. Velma can add another state to her list. She will be on the Monarch Award: Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award list released February 7th. Last year we had 131,000 children read the books on the list and vote!
on Nov 22nd, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I just went on your site and saw Velma nominated. Not sure if I knew this before or not. But I have to win given the subject matter and the name of the award. I am going to put it on my website.
Thanks for the nomination.
Best,
Alan