Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2002, 2004.

First Prize in the Snyder Book Collecting Contest, graduate division, for Edgar Rice Burroughs collection, April 1993.

Received "Honors" on Ph.D. comprehensive examination, Feb. 1992.

Outstanding Young Men of America, 1986.

"Diploma in Writing for Children and Teenagers" from the Institute of Children's Literature, Redding Ridge, CT, June 1982.

Robert W. Conover Award, 1982, Kansas State University award for outstanding graduate work by a first-year graduate teaching assistant.