Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children's Literature , 2010, Winner, I Know Here.
USBBY Outstanding International Books Honor List, 2011, Commended, I Know Here.
Horn Book Magazine Best Books of 2010, 2010, Commended, I Know Here.
Quill & Quire Books of the Year, 2010, Commended, I Know Here.
Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Illustration, 2010, Short-listed, I Know Here.
Ezra Keats New Writer Award, 2011, Winner, I Know Here.
CCBC Choices, 2011, Commended, I Know Here.
Capitol Choices, 2011, Commended, I Know Here.
CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens, 2011, Commended, I Know Here.
Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, 2011, Short-listed, I Know Here.
Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award, 2011, Short-listed, I Know Here.
TD Canadian Children's Literature Award, 2011, Short-listed, I Know Here.
Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, 2011, Winner, I Know Here.
Red Clover Award, 2011, Short-listed, I Know Here.
...a simple, achingly beautiful picture book.
- Quill & Quire, starred review
Don't miss the endpapers, a map of the central provinces, embellished with a child's priorities.
- Horn Book, starred review
. . . will resonate with readers who have also had to leave the place they know and love. For readers who haven’t had to move, the story will help them appreciate the place they know all the more.
- Worlds of Words, The University of Arizona College Education Review
...poignant...
- Teaching by the Book
...a beautifully wrought tale...
- Globe and Mail
...will resonate deeply with anyone who has had to move as a child.
- Guelph Mercury
Kids facing their own wrenching upheavals will take heart in the girl’s celebration of her roots and what she knows about herself and the world, all of which give her strength to move on.
- Booklist
The simple, straightforward text is spot-on in capturing the child's sensibilities and feelings...A regional look at a universal slice of childhood.
- SLJ
Croza conveys beautifully the precise, multi-sensual awareness and familiarity that comes in childhood, in which knowledge of place can seem an inalienable part of identity.
- Toronto Star
...a great tool for engaging students in discussions about Canadian geography, nature, dams, preservation of wilderness areas, change and descriptive writing.
- CM Magazine
This little book is not only a poignant treatment of home and stability making way for the unknown, it's a testament to the resilience of children. Laurel Croza, in her text, gives us a worthy protagonist as well as a glimpse of Canadiana most city kids will never experience ... it's a book worth buying. And sharing.
- Montreal Gazette
...simple and profound...
- New York Times Book Review