Honors for Funerals and Fly Fishing:

1. • The Best Children’s Books of the Year, 2005 Edition, selected by the Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College of Education
   

2. •  Nominated for Young Hoosiers Award, Indiana
   

•Nominated for Mark Twain Award, Missouri

•Nominated for Georgia Children’s Book Award

•Named an IRA (International Reading Association) Children’s Book Award Notable

•Named to the Kansas State Reading Circle Recommended Children’s Books

•Selected book for Western Pennsylvania Reading Competition