Book Awards & Distinctions
for Susan Goldman Rubin
63 Total Book Awards
Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People (9)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2014

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Honor, 2014

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2014

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2013

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2013

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2013

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2014

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2013

Tomás Rivera Book Award, 1996-2025
Winner, 2014
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (7)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Honor, 2015

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

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2014

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2015
Maya Lin: Thinking with Her Hands (6)

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2017

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

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2018

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Women's History Selection, 2018

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2018
The Quilts of Gee's Bend (6)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2017

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

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2018

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2017
The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin (4)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2007

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2007

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2007
Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein (4)

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

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 2012

Sydney Taylor Book Award, 2001-2025
Winner, 2012

YALSA Nonfiction Award, 2010-2025
Finalist, 2012
Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2017

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2017

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2016
Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the Children of Terezin (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Honor, 2001

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2001
The Women Who Built Hollywood: 12 Trailblazers in Front of and Behind the Camera (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2024

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2023

Septima Clark Book Award, 2019-2024
Winner, 2024
Andy Warhol: Pop Art Painter (2)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2007
Degas and the Dance: The Painter and the Petits Rats, Perfecting Their Art (2)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2003

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2003
Delicious: The Life & Art of Wayne Thiebaud (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2008
Madame Alexander: The Creator of the Iconic American Doll (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2023

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2023
The Yellow House: Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin Side by Side (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2002

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2002
Degas, Painter of Ballerinas (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Arts Selection, 2020
Everybody Paints!: The Lives and Art of the Wyeth Family (1)
The Flag with Fifty-Six Stars: A Gift from the Survivors of Mauthausen (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2006
Give Us the Vote!: Over Two Hundred Years of Fighting for the Ballot (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2020
Hot Pink: The Life & Fashions of Elsa Schiaparelli (1)
Mary Seacole: Bound for the Battlefield (1)

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2021
Stand There! She Shouted: The Invincible Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1)

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2015
There Goes the Neighborhood: 10 Buildings People Loved to Hate (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2002