2010: Selected among First and Best of 2010, Toronto Public Library, for On My Walk.

2010: Winner, Surrey Board of Trade Special Achievement Award for Writers, selected by the Surrey International Writers Conference. See press release.

2010: Finalist for the 2010 BC Book Prize (Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize) and sponsored tour for On My Walk

2010: Valedictorian, UBC Graduation Speaker. See video.

2010: Nominated, BC Reader’s Choice Chocolate Lilly Award for On My Walk

2009: Winner, Association of Educational Publishers “2009 Distinguished Achievement Award” in the fiction category for “Extreme Rollers”

2009: Silver Medal, BC Reader’s Choice Chocolate Lilly Award for Jeffrey and Sloth

2009: Winner, EveryTales Best Tale Contest for Oh Ducky Day!

2009: Selectee, TD Canadian Children’s Book Tour (Prince Edward Island)

2009: Selected, Resource Links’ Best Books for 2009 for aRHYTHMetic

2008: Finalist for the 2008 BC Book Prize (Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize) and sponsored tour for Jeffrey and Sloth

2008: Honour Book for the Blue Spruce Award (see also my book’s page)

2007: Winner of the ABCs of Education best books of 2006-2007 for Jeffrey and Sloth

2007: Between the Cracks magazine “Flash Fiction” winner

2006: UBC Faculty of Education Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

2006: won a full SSHRC Scholarship

2005: Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada Master’s Research Award for best master’s thesis (read it online)

2005: Lomcira Harold Covell Memorial Scholarship

2001: Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, North Carolina Public Schools