Aircraft Carriers Work (2019) Monster Trucks (2017) Jazz Dance (2017) Dance Team (2017) French Fries (Favorite Foods) (2018) The Bilingual Fairy Tales Three Billy Goats Gruff: Los Tres Chivitos (2019) Let's Explore the Sense of Smell (2020) We're Growing Together (1993) Let's Explore the Five Senses (2020) George Washington and the Story of the U.S. Constitution, illustrated by Jenni Reeves (2011) Let's Explore the Sense of Touch (2020) Chocolate Chip Cookies (Favorite Foods) (2018) Eerie Haunted Houses (2020) Keepsake Stories Little Red Riding Hood illustrated by Joshua Janes (2020) James Madison (Founding Fathers) (2018) Mysterious Loch Ness Monster (2020) Legendary Bigfoot (2020) How Fighter Jets Work (2019) Pembroke Welsh Corgis (Who's a Good Dog?) (2019) Thomas Jefferson (Founding Fathers) (2018) Stock Cars (Let's Ride) (2017) Personal life On February 14, 1979, she married Frank Wesley Ransom . They live in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Recognition Emily, a historical romance written by Ransom, was a 1986 finalist for a Romance Writers of America Golden Medallion award. She has also received International Reading Association/Children's Choice designation (1987) for Fourteen and Holding, Best Science Book for Children designation (1994) for Listening to Crickets, The New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year inclusion (1995) and New York Public Library's 100 Best Children's Books inclusion (1995) both for When the Whippoorwill Calls illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root, Notable Children's Trade Book in the Social Studies (1997) for One Christmas Dawn and (1998) for Fire in the Sky, Hodge-Podge Award for Best Children's Book (2001) for The Promise Quilt, and Independent Publishers Silver Medal Award (2007) for Finding Day's Bottom. References External links Candice Ransom website American children's writers Living people 1952 births Hollins University alumni Hollins University faculty Spalding University faculty