Mary Amato

General Awards and Honors:

• Maryland State Arts Council’s Independent Artist Award
• The Maryland Library Association Maryland Author Award
• The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators National Magazine Writing Award
• The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Nonfiction Book Grant
• The Heekin Foundation’s Fellowship for Children’s Novel-in-Progress
• The Washington Post Grant in the Arts
• Target Stores Art in Communities Grant
• Indiana University’s Keisler Prize for Poetry
• Washington Performing Arts Society Arts in Schools Grants
• The Arts and Humanities Council of Mont. Co.’s Artists in Schools/Artists in Residence Grants

Readers’ Choice Awards:

• Beehive Book Award: Guitar Notes
• Buckeye Children’s Book Award: The Chicken of the Family
• Maud Hart Lovelace Award: Please Write in this Book
• Arizona Young Readers Award: The Word Eater

Book-by-Book Awards and Honors:

THE CHICKEN OF THE FAMILY, Putnam, 2008

Award

• Winner of Buckeye Award (Ohio) 2010

State Award Nominations

• Red Clover Book Award (Vermont) 2009-2010
• Great Lakes Great Books (Michigan) 2009-2010
• Beehive (Utah) Book Award 2009-2010

Starred Reviews & Honors

• Publishers Weekly Starred Review
• Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice, 2009
• Read on Wisconsin! Book Club Choice Summer, 2009
• Selected for Society of Illustrator’s Original Art Show, 2008
• Starred review Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
• Dollywood’s Imagination Library program selection
• Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Starred Review
• Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon Choice, 2008
• Charlotte Zolotow Award Committee’s Highly Commended title, 2009
• The Chicken of the Family Musical, co-written by Mary Amato and Richard Washer was produced by Charter Theater in Arlington, VA and by the Jefferson City, MO, library

License Deals

• Junior Library Guild Choice

Foreign Sales

• Korean Edition, JDM Joongang, 2009

THE NAKED MOLE-RAT LETTERS, Holiday House, 2005

State Award Nominations

• Mark Twain (MO) 2008
• William Allen White (KS)2008
• Sequoyah (OK) 2008
• Charlotte (NY) 2008
• Land of Enchantment (NM) 2008
• Rebecca Caudill (IL) 2010

License Deals

• Scholastic Book Club paperback edition.
• e-book edition

Foreign Sales

• German edition (DTV, 2007)
• Japanese edition (Tokuma Shoten, 2011)

THE WORD EATER, Holiday House, 2000

Award

• The Grand Canyon (AZ) Reader Award, 2004

State Award Nominations

• Maud Hart Lovelace (MN) 2007
• Sasquatch (WA) Book Award 2003
• Sunshine State Award (FL) 2004
• Land of Enchantment (NM) 2003

License Deals

• Scholastic Book Club paperback edition
• Bookroo Branded Book Club edition, 2022

Foreign Sales

• Korean editions, Design House, 2001
• JDM Joongang,2008

EDGAR ALLAN’S OFFICIAL NOTEBOOK, Holiday House, 2010

State Award Nominations

• Bluestem Award (IL) 2014
• Sunshine State Award (FL) 2012-2013
• Tennessee Volunteer State Award (TN) 2012-2013

License Deals

• Scholastic Book Club edition 2011

INVISIBLE LINES, Egmont USA, 2009; Carolrhoda Books, 2015

State Award Nominations

• California Young Readers Award 2012-2013
• Truman (Missouri) Book Award 2011-2012

Foreign Sales

• German Edition, Carlsen, 2012: Das Konigsreich der Pilze
• Korean Edition, Kookmin Books, 2013

PLEASE WRITE IN THIS BOOK, Holiday House, 2006

Award

• Maud Hart Lovelace (MN) Award Winner 2011-2012

Starred Reviews and Honors

• Children’s Choices (IRA and CBC) for 2007
• Book of the Month Club edition, 2007
• November pick for Read On! Wisconsin http://readon.wi.gov/

SNARF ATTACK, Holiday House, 2004

State Award Nominations

• Sequoyah Book Award (OK) 2008
• Sasquatch Book Award (WA) 2008

Starred Reviews and Honors

• Pick of the Decade for 4th grade, NJ State Library

License Deals

• Scholastic Book Club paperback edition
• Optioned by Muddy Girl Productions for TV pitch, 2007-8

Foreign Sales

• Turkish edition, Epsilon, 2019
• Lithuanian edition, Alma Littera, 2018
• Korean edition, JDM Joongang, 2008
• Danish edition, Gyldendal, 2010

DROOLING AND DANGEROUS, Holiday House, 2006

Award

KC 3 Reading Award sponsored by the Greater Kansas City Association of School Librarians 2008-2009

Starred Reviews and Honors

• Bank Street Children’s Book Committee Best Children’s Book of 2007 in humor category for ages 5-9
• Children’s Choices (IRA and CBC) for 2007 Drooling and Dangerous

License Deals

• Optioned by Muddy Girl Productions for TV pitch, 2007-8

Foreign Sales

• Turkish edition, Epsilon, 2019
• Lithuanian edition, Alma Littera, 2018
• Korean edition, JDM Joongang, 2008
• Danish edition, Gyldendal, 2010

STINKY AND SUCCESSFUL, Holiday House, 2007

Award

• Missouri KC3 Book Award Winner 2009-2010

License Deals

• Optioned by Muddy Girl Productions for TV pitch, 2007-8

Foreign Sales

• Chinese edition forthcoming
• Danish edition, Gyldendal, 2010
• Korean edition, JDM Joongang, 2009

TAKE THE MUMMY AND RUN, Holiday House, 2009

License Deals

• Optioned by Muddy Girl Productions for TV pitch, 2007-8

Foreign Sales

• Danish edition, Gyldendal, 2010

GUITAR NOTES, Egmont USA, 2012; Carolrhoda Lab, 2015

Award

• Beehive Book Award

State Award Nomination

• Kentucky Bluegrass Award 2014
• Connecticut Nutmeg Award 2015
• Utah Beehive Book Award 2014-2015
• South Carolina Junior Book Award 2014-2015
• Indiana Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2017-18

License Deals

• Scholastic Book club and fairs edition

Foreign Sales

• French edition, Nathan, 2013 Une Guitare Pour Deux
• German edition, DTV, forthcoming
• Indonesian edition, NouraBooks, 2013

GET HAPPY, First Edition Egmont USA, 2014; Carolrhoda Lab, 2015

License Deals

• Scholastic Book club and fairs edition

Good Crooks Book One: MISSING MONKEY,  Egmont USA, 2014; Darby Creek, 2015

License Deals

• Scholastic Book club and fairs edition
• Book of the Month club selection

Good Crooks Book Two: DOG GONE,  Egmont USA, 2014; Darby Creek, 2015

License Deals

• Scholastic Book club and fairs edition
• Book of the Month club selection

Good Crooks Book Three: SNIFF A SKUNK, Darby Creek, 2015; Lerner Publishing Group, 2015

More information to come.

 

OUR TEACHER IS A VAMPIRE AND OTHER (NOT) TRUE STORIES, Holiday House, 2016

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• Children’s Book of the Month Club selection

 

NEWS FROM ME, LUCY MCGEE, Holiday House, 2018

More information to come.

 

OPEN MIC NIGHT AT WESTMINSTER CEMETERY, Carolrhoda Lab 2018

More information to come.