Awards
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Lightning, Hurricanes, and Blizzards: The Science of Storms
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Journey into the Deep: Discovering New Ocean Creatures
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: The Talent Show
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Ticks: Dangerous Hitchhikers
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Warduff and the Corncob Caper
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: We Stand as One: The International Ladies Garment Workers Strike, New York, 1909
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Six Sheep Sip Thick Shakes: And Other Tricky Tongue Twisters
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: The Sunflower Sword
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: Lily Renée, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices
- Product: Yuvi's Candy Tree
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Coretta Scott King Author Award
- Product: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2012
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor
- Product: H.O.R.S.E.
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2012
Cream of the Crop for Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Product: Little White Duck: A Childhood in China
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Cream of the Crop for Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Product: No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Cream of the Crop for Children's and Young Adult Literature
- Product: A Leaf Can Be . . .
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Crystal Kite Award Nominee
- Product: Infinity and Me
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2012
Cybils Finalist
- Product: The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs: A Scientific Mystery
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2012
Cybils Finalist
- Product: The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon
- Achievement: Nominated
- Year: 2012
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award Reading List
- Product: The Knife and the Butterfly
- Achievement: Long-listed
- Year: 2012
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Finalist
- Product: Ben's Flying Flowers
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Gold Award
- Product: Brooklyn, Burning
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012
Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Awards
- Product: Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2012