• Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award
• Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Book of the Year
• Claudia Lewis Award –Bank Street College of Education
• Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books 2003 Blue Ribbon
• 2004 Best of the Best List–Chicago Public Library
• 2004 Carolyn W. Field Award Honor Book–Pennsylvania Library Association
• Featured on the PBS/WGBH show “Between the Lions”
“Debut author Frame and consistently masterful Christie riff on the range of human emotions with the agility of longtime collaborators, and the result is a book that truly sings.” –Publishers Weekly
“Readers and listeners alike will enthusiastically respond to this book and instantly identify with the sentiments expressed.” –School Library Journal
“This is a dramatic partnership of text and images with strong curricular uses, and it will give young readers and listeners a simple way to express feelings and emotions that may often leave them wordless.” –Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
