- Debut author Alison McGauley‘s KENZIE’S LITTLE TREE, in which a child and her family plant a beautiful tree together, and as the seasons change and the child cares for the tree, she learns to deal with the challenges that life brings and how to adjust her expectations, illustrated by Emilie Leduc, to Sarah Howden at Orca Books, by Emmy Nordstrom Higdon at Westwood Creative Artists.