As many of you know, our Mom’s Choice Awards® honorees are alumni, not just the people who won in a given awards cycle. We continue to correspond regularly, and many continue to share their news with us. As our MCA family has grown, so have the opportunities to share with you what our honorees are doing. Now, we can’t talk … Read More
Congratulations Honorees – August 2010
As you may remember from earlier this year, the Mom’s Choice Awards®launched a new era and has moved to an open cycle. This is great news because it allows us to celebrate and recognize the best in family friendly media all year long, not just in a specific season.It does, however, make it a little bit harder for you to keep … Read More
MCA Honoree Debra Gano is Making a Differeince with her OWN Television Show
In 2009, the first book in Debra Gano’s Heartlight Girls Series earned a Mom’s Choice Award in the Juvenile Books Level 2 (ages 9 to 12), Mind, Spirit and Body category. She is continuing with her quest to change lives for girls with a new television show Empowering Girls – From the Inside Out. Debra has entered her show into … Read More
Alumni Spotlight on Jeanne Gehret
Jeanne Gehret describes herself as a lifelong writer. Her first works were lost not because the dog ate them, or even the computer … it was because she wrote them in pencil! Just as her brother had warned her, over the years they had faded from the paper she’d written them on, lost forever. As she got older, Jeanne’s work … Read More
Alumni Spotlight on Pauli Reading
The Alumni Spotlight is a periodic feature on the official Mom’s Choice Awards® blog. It is part of our ongoing effort to “shine the spotlight” on you and your award-winning, family-friendly products, services, and media. MCA: Can you please tell us about the inspiration for Sherlock McBiskit Shares His Secrets to Good Character and Respect?Pauli: Sherlock McBiskit is based on … Read More
Alumni Spotlight on Andrea Skyberg
Mix the joy of being a mom, the imagination of a child, the encouragement of family, and the creativity of a skilled artist, and what do you get? Snickeyfritz … a life-sized family constructed with masking tape! Andrea Skyberg is a classically trained artist who transformed a story she wrote in high school into a children’s picture book. Andrea describes … Read More
Alumni Spotlight on children’s author Julie Fox and her book Ugly as a Toad
Given her love of writing and her passion as a teacher, it is only natural that one day Julie Fox would craft a children’s book. Little did she know, though, that her first effort would be an award-winning picture book. She is also the mom of two boys. Julie holds a Bachelors of Arts in Elementary Education and Special Education … Read More
Congratulations to 2010 Honorees
One of the things that makes the Mom’s Choice Awards unique is that you don’t have to wait until a specific deadline to know whether or not your product is an award winner. When the evaluations come back from the judges, they are processed right away, and then we can get the results to you. We take the same approach … Read More