I received the very fun news last week that one of my books, Eight Great Planets (Picture Window Books, 2010), won the 2010 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award – Children's Category.
This is one of my Science Songs books, which each cover a curriculum area via a song written to the tune of an old folk song, in this case, "Where Is Thumbkin?" Nonfiction verse brings up some interesting questions. In this case, I remember having to ask my editor what Capstone/Picture Window Books' official pronunciation of Uranus would be, since it would affect the meter and rhyme of the spread on that planet. Anyway, these books (I did 8 of them) were a blast to write, and it's wonderful to to get recognition from such a prestigious organization.