Philomel Awards

Caldecott Medal Winner

  • 2001: So You Want to Be President? by Judith St. George, illustrated by David Small
  • 1990: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China, translated and illustrated by Ed Young
  • 1988: Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr

Caldecott Honor Book

  • 1993: Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young
  • 1968: The Emperor and the Kite by Ed Young

Carnegie Medal Winner

  • 2017: Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Carnegie Medal Nominee

  • 2020: The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
  • 2020: Hello Now by Jenny Valentine
  • 2020: Otto Tattercoat and the Forest of Lost Things by Matilda Woods
  • 2016: Fire Color One by Jenny Valentine
  • 2015: Bone Jack by Sara Crowe
  • 2014: Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
  • 2012: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

Newbery Honor Book

  • 1983: Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

National Book Award Winner

  • 2010: Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine

National Book Award Nominee

  • 2013: A Tangle of Knots by Lisa Graff

National Jewish Book Award Nominee

  • 2015: Audacity by Melanie Crowder

The New York Times Best-Illustrated Books of the Year

  • 2016: The Cat from Hunger Mountain, written and illustrated by Ed Young
  • 2012: The Hueys in: The New Sweater, written and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
  • 1993: The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida, illustrated by Joanna Yardley
  • 1993: Gulliver’s Adventures in Lilliput by Jonathan Swift, retold by Ann Kay Beneduce, illustrated by Gennady Spirin
  • 1988: Cats are Cats, compiled by Nancy Larrick, illustrated by Ed Young
  • 1988: Swan Sky by Tejima
  • 1987: Fox’s Dream by Tejima
  • 1982: Anno’s Britain by Mitsumasa Anno

William C. Morris Award Winner

  • 2023: The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen by Isaac Blum

William C. Morris Award Nominee

  • 2012: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys