Kim Siegelson, a native of Georgia, was the first recipient of the Center for Multicultural Children's Literature Writing Award. Her most recent books won the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration and In the Time of the Drums was also selected as a Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of 1999. Additionally, Ms. Siegelson is the author of the new children's book, Honey Bea, due in Fall 2003.