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.