Awards and Honors from April 2009 I.N.K. NEWS

Almost Astronauts: Thirteen Women Who Dared to Dream
Author: Tanya Lee Stone

Watch Video on Book TV on C Span 2, 55 Minutes

She chats about the tests they experienced,
and the challenge of
becoming an female astronaut.

Tanya Lee Stone recounts the thirteen women who trained to become astronauts in 1960, many years before the first woman would be accepted into the NASA program. Known as the "Mercury 13" all the women passed their required tests but ultimately had their career advancement blocked due to what the author posits was gender prejudice. Ms. Stone's book is written for a young adult audience and she presents it to a class of students at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC.

April Pulley Sayre's new book, Honk, Honk, Goose: Canada Geese Start a Family (Holt) is being released April 14th and has already received starred reviews in Booklist and School Library Journal.
In the last two months, she has traveled to 8 states, presented programs for 16,000 students, and snorkeled with 6 manatees.

Dorothy Patent's book, When the Wolves Return: Restoring Nature's Balance in Yellowstone, is an IRA Teachers’ Choice winner for 2009. Her current project is a book on the relationships between Indians and horses through time.

Two of Vicki Cobb's books from her new Millbrook series, Your Body Battles a Cold and Your Body Battles a Broken Bone, were named as Junior Literary Guild Selections for Spring 2009.

for more: I.N.K. Kathleen Krull