Book Awards & Distinctions
for Sy Montgomery
63 Total Book Awards
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot (7)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2011

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2011

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2010

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2010

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2011

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2011
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World (7)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2013

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, 1953-2025
Books for Older Children Honor, 2013

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

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2013
The Book of Turtles (6)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2024

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2024

Cook Prize, 2012-2025
Winner, 2024

Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2024
Honor, 2024

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Science Selection, 2023
Condor Comeback (5)

Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2024
Honor, 2021

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2020

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2021

Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Middle Grade Selection, 2020
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea (5)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2007

Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2024
Honor, 2007

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Winner, 2007

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2007
The Tarantula Scientist (5)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2005

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2005

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2005
The Hyena Scientist (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2019

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019

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

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2018
The Octopus Scientists (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2016

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2016
Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2015

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2015

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2015
The Tapir Scientist (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2014

Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2024
Honor, 2014

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2014
The Great White Shark Scientist (2)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Science Selection, 2016

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2017
The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa's Last Great Herds (2)
The Snake Scientist (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2000
Amazon Adventure: How Tiny Fish Are Saving the World's Largest Rainforest (1)
Brave Baby Hummingbird (1)
Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon (1)

Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2024
Ecology & Nature Honor, 2003
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019
Inky's Amazing Escape: How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home (1)
The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans (1)

Skipping Stones Honor Awards, 1994-2024
Ecology & Nature Honor, 2002
Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia (1)
Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in the Asian Tropics (1)

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2005