Betty Birney’s Blog

It was announced this weekend that SURPRISES ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY is on the Bluebonnet Award list for 2010! THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY has won nine children’s choice awards and FRIENDSHIP ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY is on several lists now but it’s lovely that the fourth book in the series is getting this attention! Texas is a big state and the readers there have big appetites so this is quite an honor.

I’ll be heading for Calgary on Tuesday for the Kaleidoscope Conference later in the week and to visit some schools. I can’t wait, despite the email I got this morning saying it might snow on Wednesday. Snow? What’s snow?

Back when I got the invitation to Kaleidoscope, it never dawned on me that I’d be leaving on election day. That seems like a long time ago. I already voted by absentee ballot so I don’t have to think about long lines. But even though I can watch the returns in Canada, it will be different, I’m sure. And it will be especially hard NOT to be watching with my husband. (Although I usually get frustrated and go to bed while he stays up.)