Book Awards & Distinctions
for George Ella Lyon
22 Total Book Awards
All the Water in the World (4)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2012
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2012
Charlotte Zolotow Award, 1998-2024
Commended, 2012
Voices from the March on Washington (3)
Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2024
Selection, 2015
Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2024
Selection, 2015
Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2015
Which Side Are You On?: The Story of a Song (3)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2012
Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2024
Selection, 2012
Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2024
Multicultural and International Honor, 2012
What Forest Knows (2)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015
Charlotte Zolotow Award, 1998-2024
Commended, 2015
You and Me and Home Sweet Home (2)
Borrowed Children (1)
Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2024
Fiction Winner, 1989
Counting on the Woods (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998
A Day at Damp Camp (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996
Gina.Jamie.Father.Bear. (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2003
Holding on to Zoe (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013
The Pirate of Kindergarten (1)
Voices of Justice: Poems about People Working for a Better World (1)
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2024
Contemporary Concerns Selection, 2021
Weaving the Rainbow (1)
Marion Vannett Ridgway Award, 2000-2023
Winner, 2005