Book Awards & Distinctions
for Barry Moser
17 Total Book Awards
The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2012

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2012

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2011
Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2004
Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds (2)

Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, 1967-2024
Winner, 1991

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1991
In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1988

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2025
Honor, 1989
When Birds Could Talk and Bats Could Sing (2)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 1997

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996
Jump!: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1986
Just So Stories (1)
Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes (1)
Once Upon a Twice (1)
A Ring of Tricksters: Animal Tales from America, the West Indies and Africa (1)

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 1998