✨Thank you, Best Book Awards & American Book Fest!
The Night the Monsters Came was recently awarded as a finalist in the Children‘s Picture Book: Hardcover Fiction category in the 18th Annual Best Book Awards for 2021 sponsored by the American Book Fest.
I am so grateful for this award and share this with the super talented and amazing Lisa Ciccone. Lisa—thank you for making this book so fun with your colorful and playful monsters and for sprinkling the book with magic dust and whimsy! I‘m forever grateful. This one‘s for you! ❤️
Here‘s an excerpt from the American Book Fest 2021 Press Release:
Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of American Book Fest said this year’s contest yielded over 2,000 entries from mainstream and independent publishers, which were then narrowed down to over 400 winners and finalists.
Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, John Wiley and Sons, Rowman & Littlefield, Revell/Baker Publishing, Macmillan Publishers, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, Sounds True, HCI Press, New World Library, Lake Union Publishing, She Writes Press, American Psychological Association, NYU Press, Oxford University Press, John Hopkins University Press and hundreds of Independent Houses contribute to this year’s outstanding competition!
To view the 2021 BBA full results, visit americanbookfest.com.