| 2025 | Fireworks | New York Public Library Best Books source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Books for Kids | |
| 2025 | Words With Wings and Magic Things: Poems | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Informational Books for Older Readers | |
| 2025 | Fireworks | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Picture Books | |
| 2025 | Fireworks | NPR Books We Love source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books We Love | |
| 2025 | Fireworks | Booklist Editors' Choice source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books for Youth: Young Fiction | |
| 2025 | Words With Wings and Magic Things | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Middle Grade | |
| 2025 | Fireworks | Horn Book Fanfare source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |
| 2025 | Fireworks | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |
| 2025 | Fireworks | Publishers Weekly Best Books source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |
| 2025 | Fireworks | School Library Journal Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |
| 2025 | Words with Wings and Magic Things | School Library Journal Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Poetry | |
| 2024 | As Edward Imagined: A Story of Edward Gorey in Three Acts | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Informational Books for Younger Readers | |
| 2022 | Make Meatballs Sing: The Life & Art of Corita Kent | NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction for Children | |
| 2021 | Make Meatballs Sing: The Life & Art of Corita Kent | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Informational Books for Younger Readers | |
| 2021 | Make Meatballs Sing: The Life and Art of Corita Kent | Booklist Editors' Choice source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books for Youth: Nonfiction, Middle Readers | |
| 2021 | Drawing on Walls | NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Nonfiction for Children | |
| 2020 | Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring | New York Public Library Best Books source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Books for Kids | |
| 2020 | Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Informational Books for Younger Readers | |
| 2020 | The Bear and the Moon | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Picture Books | |
| 2020 | Drawing on Walls | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |
| 2020 | The Bear and the Moon | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |