The American Library Association named Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble Telescope Saw to its 2012 Notables List. It has also been named one of four finalists for the prestigious Texas Institute of Letters writing awards.

 NASA Lunar and Planetary Institute explores Mars. Click here for lesson plans and activities to use with Mars and the Search for Life.

Elaine is named as the Featured Sweetheart by the Texas Sweethearts and Scoundrels writers group. Learn why at the blog.

Read Cynthia Leitich Smith's interview with Elaine at Cynsations.

Now available in audiobook! When is a Planet Not a Planet?: The Story of Pluto is now available as an audiobook from Random House Audio. Listen to a sample clip by clicking here.

Library Sparks featured When is a Planet Not a Planet? and Elaine Scott in the March 2008 issue.

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Site updated March 12, 2012.

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2012 has gotten off to a great start, as far as I’m concerned.  It all began in January with the announcement that Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble Telescope Saw had received a Notable Children's Book citation from the American Library Association.  If you know me, then you know how much I admire and respect America’s librarians, so to have a book of mine commended by their Notable Committee is a really big deal.

That honor has just been compounded, because Space, Stars and the Beginning of Time has also been named one of four finalists for the prestigious Texas Institute of Letters writing awards.  I’ll be headed to San Antonio on April 14 for the awards banquet.  Once again, as I said about being on the Notable short list, it’s an honor to be a finalist.  All of the other nominated books are wonderful—and provide stiff competition!

April is shaping up to be a big month in general.  TLA (the Texas Library Association Conference) will be in Houston this year, and I’ll be signing copies of Buried Alive!: How 33 Miners Survived 69 Days Deep Under the Chilean Desert. That book will be brand new, having just been published the weekend before. If you attend TLA, please be sure to come by Clarion’s booth and take a peek at it.  If not, you can find it all over the web. I think the miner’s story of endurance, strength, hope—coupled with fear and despair—is one that will be told for generations to come whenever anyone talks about leadership, problem-solving, and human faith and courage.

Right now, I’m doing final revisions on Dollars and Sense: A Book About Money for Charlesbridge, and am still writing the manuscript for Our Moon, a new book for Clarion.  Those should be finished soon, and then I’ll take a short break to do something about a very messy house that has been neglected, before settling in over the summer to tackle another novel.

I’m now taking bookings for the 2012-2013 school year, so if you’d like a visit from me, just e-mail me, or go to www.balkinbuddies.com and we’ll get you on my schedule.

In the interim, happy spring!

Elaine

  Honors and Events

Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble Telescope Saw was named a 2012 Notable Book by the American Library Association. It has has also been named one of four finalists for the prestigious Texas Institute of Letters writing awards.

When Is a Planet Not a Planet? is named to the 2010-2011 Young Hoosier Book Award Nomination List! Secrets of the Cirque Medrano has been named one of Bank Street College's Best Children's Books of the Year! The Texas State Reading Association awarded When is a Planet Not a Planet? the 2008 Golden Spur Award for Children's Literature (now called TSRA Literature Award for Children, Young Adult and Illustrator). When is a Planet Not a Planet? won the 2008 Texas Reading Association's Literature Award. It was also named as a PBS Recommended Book, a 2008 Teacher's Choice book, and was also named to the Maine Student Book Awards list for 2008-2009. Elaine was a featured author at the International Reading Association Conference in Phoenix, AZ, February 21-25, 2009. Poles Apart was named a finalist for the prestigious Teddy Children's Book Award in 2005. The Pennsylvania Library Association named Poles Apart to its YA Top 40 list! Chicago Public Library names Poles Apart one of its Best of the Best. Elaine was one of a select group of children's authors invited to participate in Laura Bush Celebrates America's Authors, part of the extended Inaugural Activities on January 19, 2001. Read about her experience in the Special Events section of the site.

	Then-Governor George W. Bush welcomes Elaine Scott to the 1999 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas.
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