• first foreign-language edition! Toads and Diamonds now available in Chinese, published by Macmillan Century.
• and another "best of" list for Toads & Diamonds: the Bulletin of the Center of Children's Books Guide Book to Gift Books for 2011.
• Toads & Diamonds is listed on the Bankstreet College list of the Best Books of the Year for 2011.
• Toads and Diamonds is on the Mythopoeic Awards 2011 nomination list for children’s literature! Wow—in company with Terry Pratchett, Megan Whelan Turner. Catherine Fisher, Polly Shulman. Zowies!