A Kid’s Best Friend
• ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award
American Babies
• Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award
• Booklist starred review
• Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program BookDragon review
Animal Friends
• Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Book Award
Back to School
• National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval
• CCBC (Cooperative Children’s Book Center) Choice
Be My Neighbor
• NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
Children from Australia to Zimbabwe
• Earlychildhood News Directors’ Choice Award
• Learning magazine Teachers’ Choice Award
• Read, America! Collection
Children of Native America Today
• International Reading Association Notable Book for a Global Society
• CCBC (Cooperative Children’s Book Center) Choice
Children of the U.S.A.
• Moonbeam Children’s Book Gold Award for Multicultural Non-Fiction
• Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year
Extraordinary Girls
• NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
• Selected by the Ms. Foundation for Women as the official book of Take Our Daughters To Work Day
• National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval
Faith
• International Reading Association Notable Book for a Global Society
• Tablet magazine’s Great Kids’ Books
• Church & Synagogue Library Association Rodda Book Award
• NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
• Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year
• One of 40 books chosen for Kirkus Reviews’ Religion & Spirituality supplement
Global Babies
• Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book Award
• Oprah’s Book Club Kids’ Reading List
• Parents Magazine Best for Babies
• National Parenting Publications Gold Award
• Read On Wisconsin! featured book
• American Library Association Notable Children’s Book
• Chicago Public Library Best of the Best
• Beginning with Books Early Literacy Center Best Books for Babies
• Capitol Choices 100 Best Books for Children
• Book Sense Children’s Pick
• CCBC (Cooperative Children’s Book Center) Choice
• Politics and Prose 25th Anniversary Children and Teens Favorite
Going to School in India
• United States Board on Books for Young People and Children’s Book Council Outstanding International Book
• NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
• Skipping Stones Honor Award
Let the Games Begin
• Earlychildhood News Directors’ Choice Award
Nasreen’s Secret School
• Jane Addams Children’s Book Award
• Skipping Stones Honor Award
• The Children’s Book Compass 100 Plus Best Books of 2009-10
• Parents’ Choice Recommended Book
• Smithsonian Notable Book for Children
• Amelia Bloomer List
• Horace Mann Upstanders Honor Book
• Kids’ Indie Next List
Our Grandparents
• Pennsylvania Center for the Book Baker’s Dozen (Best Book for Family Literacy)
• Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
To Be a Kid
• Earlychildhood News Directors’ Choice Award
• NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
• CCBC (Cooperative Children’s Book Center) Choice
• National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval
• Parents Magazine Terrific for Toddlers
To Be an Artist
• NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
• CCBC (Cooperative Children’s Book Center) Choice
• Earlychildhood News Judges’ Selection Award
• Book Sense Children’s Pick