Book Awards & Distinctions
for Gilbert Ford
21 Total Book Awards
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel (5)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015

Cook Prize, 2012-2025
Honor, 2015

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2014

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2015
How the Cookie Crumbled: The True (and Not-So-True) Stories of the Invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie (3)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2018

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2018
Soldier Song: A True Story of the Civil War (3)

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2018

Original Art Medal, 2002-2024
Silver Winner, 2017

Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Picture Book Selection, 2017
From Here to There: Inventions That Changed the Way the World Moves (2)

Best STEM Books, 2017-2025
Selection, 2022

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Science Selection, 2021
Itch!: Everything You Didn't Want to Know about What Makes You Scratch (2)
The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation (2)
Moonpenny Island (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2016

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Middle Selection, 2015
The Ambrose Deception (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Mystery / Adventure Selection, 2018