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
