Awards
SSLI Book Award Best Book
- Product: Ladybugs: Red, Fiery, and Bright
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2002
SSLI Book Award Honor Book
- Product: A Fruit Is a Suitcase for Seeds
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2002
SSLI Book Award Honor Book
- Product: Sylvia & Miz Lula Maye
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2002
SSLI Book Award Honor Book
- Product: Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2002
SSLI Book Award Honor Book
- Product: Under, Over, By the Clover: What Is a Preposition?
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2002
Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor
- Product: Sammy Spider's First Trip to Israel
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2002
Sydney Taylor Book Award Notable
- Product: It's Challah Time!
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2002
VOYA Nonfiction Honor List
- Product: Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2002
American Bookseller Kids' Pick of the Lists
- Product: To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What Is a Verb?
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
American Bookseller Kids' Pick of the Lists
- Product: Family
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Book-of-the-Month Children's Club Selection
- Product: To Root, to Toot, to Parachute: What Is a Verb?
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
CBC Children's Choices
- Product: Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
CBC Children's Choices
- Product: The War
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Johnny Appleseed
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: The War
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: President of the Underground Railroad: A Story about Levi Coffin
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Horse Sense: The Story of Will Sasse, His Horse Star, and the Outlaw Jesse James
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year
- Product: Annie Quinn in America
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Children's Literature Choice List
- Product: Death on Sacred Ground
- Achievement: Winner
- Year: 2001
Children's Resources Silver Award
- Product: Harriet and George's Christmas Treat
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2001
Joan G. Sugarman Children's Book Award Honorable Mention
- Product: The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2001
Joan G. Sugarman Children's Book Award Honorable Mention
- Product: The Shabbat Box
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2001
Joan G. Sugarman Children's Book Award Honorable Mention
- Product: Death on Sacred Ground
- Achievement: Commended
- Year: 2001
National Jewish Book Award Finalist
- Product: The Hardest Word: A Yom Kippur Story
- Achievement: Runner-up
- Year: 2001