December Secrets

Patricia Reilly Giff has recieved the Newbery Honor for  Pictures of Hollis Woods  and  Lily’ s Crossing, which is also a  Boston Globe– Horn Book  Honor Book.   Nory Ryan’ s Song  was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and an ALA Notable Book.

Blanche Sims is a children’ s book illustrator, born in Cleveland, Ohio. She has illustrated dozens of books, as well as the television film Beyond the Butterfly, which won a Parents’ Choice Foundation commendation for television in 2000.