2010 Book of the Year Award by Creative Child Magazine ~ Winner, Runners-Ups and Procedure

Picky, Picky Pete written by Michele Griffin and published by Future Horizons is the 2010 Book of the Year Award by Creative Child Magazine. Before posting the runners- up, let me tell you about the Creative Child Magazine and the procedure to find the winners.

About Creative Child Magazine

Their web site says: “Creative Child Magazine is a national bi-monthly publication that provides parents with the latest information on how to nurture their child's creativity. With departments such as Kids at Play, Health and Safety, Discovering Creativity, Nurturing Talent and Tomorrow's Child - Investing for Your Child's Future, Creative Child Magazine is essential and the most complete parenting publication for raising well-balanced children.” You can subscribe here https://www.creativechild.com/subscribe and get 6 issues for only $24.

About Creative Child Magazine’s Awards Program
There is nothing better than being recognized and recommended by the very people who will buy and benefit from your product. This is how Creative Child Magazine chooses their yearly winners. The products submitted for the awards are reviewed by moms, music educators and early education professionals.

Over a hundred guests reviewers meet for an organized 2-day review event held in Henderson,

Nevada. The guest reviewers move from one review station to the next, each with a different category of submitted products. The conclusions of the reviewers are all noted on the required review forms for each category of products.

Their site states: “The review forms are to include written comments and a score value based on criteria that corresponds to the product's category. Upon completion of the event all review forms are collected by Creative Child Magazine staff assistants. All scores are tabulated and comments are reviewed.”


How Are the Creative Child Magazine Award Winners Chosen
Please note that these awards do not examine the products on how it adheres to safety for children. Parents concerned with the safety of the products featured in Creative Child Magazine could contact the Consumer Products Safety Commission.

To determine the finalists products for DVD, CD, Book, Game and Toy of the Year, the comments, scores and data from the reviewer forms are tabulated.

Their site states: “Only one product per category can win a Toy of the Year award, as well as, CD, DVD, Book and Game of the Year. The remaining finalists receive a prestigious Preferred Choice Award.
The Seal of Excellence is another prestigious award that is given to those products that are not finalists but do exceed expectations based on the criteria for nurturing creativity and education in children.”

And the 2010 Winner and Runners-up  on Special Needs Books Are:

2010 Book of the Year Award by Creative Child Magazine

Picky, Picky Pete  ~ A Boy and His Sensory Challenges Written by Michele Griffin and published by Future Horizons. Review here

2010 Preferred Choice:

Bookworm ~ Discovering Idioms, Sayings, and Expressions Written by Karen Emigh and published by Future Horizons. Also 2009 Preferred Choice

Let's Make Faces! ~ Have Fun Drawing Different Faces for Different Feelings Written by Gerard Emerson and published by Future Horizons. Also 2009 Preferred Choice

Sensitive Sam ~ Sam’s Sensory Adventure Has a Happy Ending! Written by Marla Roth-Fisch and published by Future Horizons. Also 2009 Book of the Year Award. Book review here

Special People, Special Ways ~ Each page portrays positive images of children with various disabilities Written by Arlene Maguire and published by Future Horizons. Also 2009 Preferred Choice

The Goodenoughs Get in Sync ~ Five Family Members Overcome Their Special Sensory Issues Written by Carol Kranowitz and published by Future Horizons. Book review here

2010 Seal of Excellence

There Are No Word ~ Story of Jaxon MacKenzie, non-verbal, autistic 12-year-old girl written by Mary Calhoun Brown and published by Lucky Press, LLC. 

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*The Goodenoughs Get in Sync ~New Edition~ 5 Family Members  Overcome their Special Sensory Issues by Carole Kranowitz

*Meet Carol Kranowitz and Joye Newman Authors of Growing an In-Sync Child
*Sensitive Sam by Marla Roth-Fisch ~ A Review
*Picky, Picky Pete by Michele Griffen ~A Reviw