Though Sheri Poe-Pape has written many internet articles about people in the arts and in history, "Cassie's Marvelous Music Lessons", "Cassie Pup Takes the Cake??", and "Cassie Pup's Favorite Ladybug and Snake Stories" are the author's first three children's books. She has also been Director/Educator of the Pape Conservatory of Music for the past forty years. 

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The author is a graduate of Northern Illinois University where she studied Music, English and Creative Writing.  She lives with her family in Northern Illinois, where she continues to write and to teach music-alongside Cassie.

My awards include:
2013 Midwest Publishing Association Children's Book Award

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2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award - Illinois Central College

2018 Royal Dragonfly Children's Book Award

2018 Story Monsters Approved Children's Book Award

2018 Purple Dragonfly Children's Book Award

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2018 New Apple Literary Award in Children's General Fiction

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2019 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner - International Book Awards

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2019 Story Monsters Approved Book Award

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2020 B.R.A.G. Medallion award

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2020 Royal Dragonfly Book Award

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2020 Story Monsters Approved Children's Book Award

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2021 B.R.A.G. Medallion Children's Book Award

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2023 B.R.A. G. Medallion Children's Book Award

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2024 B.R.A.G. Medallion Children's Book Award

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