Zolotow Award 2004
The CCBC has award the Charlotte Zolotow Award for best picture book text to What James Likes Best by Amy Schwartz. Honor books are Two Old Potatoes and Me by John Coy, The Baby Goes Beep by Rebecca O’Connell, Mrs. Chicken and the Alligator by Won-Ldy Paye, Calabash Cat and His Amazing Journey by James Rumford and Tippy-Toe Chick Go! by George Shannon.

Boy writes author who captured imagination
“Twelve-year-old Wesley Speer, a sixth-grader at Waldorf School of Louisville, was so moved by “The Pit Dragon Trilogy” books that he wrote author Jane Yolen, asking her to write another book in the series.
He got what he wanted.
Wesley received a letter from Yolen telling him that she was getting started on it.”
The article goes on to say how much Yolen likes getting letters from children. She first wrote the trilogy twenty years ago.