April Halprin Wayland has won awards for her picture books and verse novel and was named UCLA Extension Writing Program's Outstanding Instructor of the Year. Her website's tagline? ½ author, ½ poet, ½ not good at fractions.
Awards: Sydney Taylor Gold Medal for Younger Readers, Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Poetry, Lee Bennett Hopkins Honor Book for Children’s Poetry
Communities: Jewish picture books
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