Sheri Poe-Pape

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??," "Cassie Pup's Favorite Ladybug and Snake Stories," "Koala Ballerina's Superhero Bowling Rescue," and " A Grandma Spells L-O-V-E" are the author's first five 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.

2013 Midwest Publishing Association Children's Book Award.

2017 Illinois Central College Distinguished Alumni Award.

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 Children's Book Award.

2019 Reader's Favorite International Book Award.

2019 Story Monsters Approved Children's Book Award.

2020 B.R.A.G. Medallion Children's Book Award

2020 Royal Dragonfly Children's Book Award

2020 Story Monsters Approved Children's Book Award

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

2022 B.R.A.G. Medallion Children's Book Award

2025 Golden Wizard Children's Book Award