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LET’S FLY is a 2025 Social Studies Trade Notable
LET’S FLY has been selected as a 2025 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young Readers by the NCSS and Children’s Book Council! See the full list here.
California Young Reader Nominee
LET LIBERTY RISE has been nominated for a California Young Reader Medal 2025-2026 in the Picture Books for Older Readers category! More info here.
Barrington Irving & LET’S FLY Featured on TODAY Show!
Check out this wonderful interview with TODAY Show’s Craig Melvin & Capt. Barrington Irving at the Intrepid Museum!
Tower of Life Nominated for Garden State Children’s Book Award
The Tower of Life has been nominated for a 2025 Garden State Children’s Book Award for nonfiction!
New Book Deal!
HOW RUDE: ANIMALS WITH ATTITUDE, by Chana Stiefel, illustrated by Anna Louise Oliver, coming from Union Square Publishing, Fall 2025.
2023 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature
The Tower of Life was awarded the Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature, along with Beneath the Wide Silk Sky by Emily Inouye Huey, at UConn’s Dodd Impact Center in Storrs, CT, on November 15, 2023. (L to R) Senator Chris Dodd, Michelle Palmer, Emily Inouye Huey, Chana Stiefel, Dodd Center Chair James Waller.
Tower of Life Wins 2023 Malka Penn Award
The Tower of Life has won the 2023 Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature from the University of Connecticut’s Dodd Human Rights Impact Programs. Click here to learn more.
Tower of Life on Bank Street’s Best Books of 2023
Thrilled to see The Tower of Life listed on Bank Street College of Education’s Best Books of 2023!
Tower of Life receives the Margaret Wise Brown Prize for Children’s Literature
So grateful to share that THE TOWER OF LIFE has been awarded the 2023 Margaret Wise Brown Prize for Children’s Literature from Hollins University. Read more here.
