Awards & Recognition
1994 Horn Book Guide:
Fiction Rating 3, Recommended, Satisfactory in Style, Content, and/or Illustration.
Recipient of Canada's 1995 Children's Choice
Silver Birch Award
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/lisez-sur-le-sujet/015020-6018-e.html
http://www.canlitawards.com/silverbirch.html
http://cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/people/Reimer_Mavis/year.cfm
The 1995 Society of School Librarians' Award for International Best Book for k-6
1995 Georgia Book Award Nominee
1996 nominee for South Carolina Association Of School Librarian's
"Children's Book Award"
Kentucky Bluegrass Award, 1996 ; Nominee
Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K--Grade 6, 1997
National Council of Teachers of English; United States
The 1998 BILBY Award (Books I love Best Yearly)
Younger Reader Category
(The Queeensland branch of The Children's Book Council of Australia award)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilby_Award_Winners
http://www.pa.ash.org.au/cbc/bilbyawards/deliver/content.asp?pid=7089
100 Books Too Good to Miss
School Library Journal, 9/1/1998
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA152997.html
Not Just for Children Any More, 1999
Children's Book Council; United States (Best Books)
http://www.childrenslit.com/childrenslit/th_teddy.html
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, 2001
H.W. Wilson; United States
http://clcd.odyssi.com/cgi-bin/sirsi/search/r?dbs+child:@term+@isbn+0316806250