Book Awards & Distinctions
for Deborah Kogan Ray
11 Total Book Awards
To Go Singing Through the World: The Childhood of Pablo Neruda (2)

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Commended, 2006

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2007
Wanda Gág: The Girl Who Lived to Draw (2)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2009

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2009
Cassie's Journey: Going West in the 1860s (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1988
Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell, the One-Armed Explorer (1)
Flying Eagle (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2010
I Have a Sister, My Sister Is Deaf (1)

Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 1970-2025
Author Honor, 1979
Immigrant Girl: Becky of Eldridge Street (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1987
Paiute Princess: The Story of Sarah Winnemucca (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2012
Sweet Dried Apples (1)

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 1997