Book Awards & Distinctions
for Polly Dunbar
19 Total Book Awards
Bubble Trouble (4)

Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, 1967-2024
Winner, 2009

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2010

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2009

Outstanding International Books, 2006-2024
Grades K-2 Selection, 2010
Can Bears Ski? (4)

Ezra Jack Keats Award, 1986-2025
Author Honor, 2021

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Social Interactions & Relationships Selection, 2021
Read for Empathy Collections, 2017-2025
Selection, 2022
Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of Poetry (3)
Buster and the Baby (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2018

Charlotte Zolotow Award, 1998-2025
Honor, 2018
The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon (1)

Outstanding International Books, 2006-2024
Grades 3-5 Selection, 2011
Down the Back of the Chair (1)

Outstanding International Books, 2006-2024
Grades K-2 Selection, 2007
A Lion Is a Lion (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019
The Man from the Land of Fandango (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013
My Dad's a Birdman (1)

Outstanding International Books, 2006-2024
Grades 3-5 Selection, 2009
Penguin (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2008