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About the Amazon Best-selling Author

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. 

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

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

2018 New Apple Literary Award in Children's General Fiction

2019 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner - International Book Awards

2019 Story Monsters Approved Book Award

2020 B.R.A.G. Medallion award

2020 Royal Dragonfly Book Award

2020 Story Monsters Approved Children's Book Award

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

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

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

Click here to check them out!

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