Awards
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
- Product: Clouds of Terror
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1994
PLA Top Titles for Adult New Readers
- Product: What I Had Was Singing: The Story of Marian Anderson
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1994
Reading Rainbow® Book
- Product: I Am an Artist
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1994
ILA Teacher's Choices
- Product: Kinaaldá: A Navajo Girl Grows Up
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1993
National Jewish Book Award
- Product: Thank You, God!: A Jewish Child's Book of Prayers
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1993
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
- Product: Kinaaldá: A Navajo Girl Grows Up
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1993
NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
- Product: Listening to Crickets: A Story about Rachel Carson
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1993
NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
- Product: Story of a Dolphin
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1993
SSLI Book Award Best Book
- Product: Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1993
SSLI Book Award Outstanding Book
- Product: Story of a Dolphin
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 1993
Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor
- Product: Thank You, God!: A Jewish Child's Book of Prayers
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 1993
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
- Product: Jump at de Sun: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1992
NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
- Product: Wonderful Worms
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1992
PLA Top Titles for Adult New Readers
- Product: Lightning
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1992
PLA Top Titles for Adult New Readers
- Product: Tornado
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1992
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
- Product: Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1990
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
- Product: How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots: A Swahili Tale of Friendship
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1990
NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts
- Product: My Grandpa and the Sea
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1990
New York Public Library Best Books for Kids
- Product: My Grandpa and the Sea
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1990
Reading Rainbow® Book
- Product: Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1990
Carter G. Woodson Book Award
- Product: Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1989
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
- Product: Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1989
NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
- Product: Healing Warrior: A Story about Sister Elizabeth Kenny
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1989
NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
- Product: Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 1989