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Author record · 2007 to 2025

Brian Floca: Awards and Best-of Lists

Brian Floca has won 2 awards, including the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children (2011) for Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring, with 6 shortlist or finalist places and 15 year-end list picks in our archive.

Also credited with Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan, Sydney Smith

Every recognition

Year is the award or list year, not the publication year.
YearBookSourceResultTranslator
2025Island StormKirkus Prize source (opens in a new tab)Finalist · Young Readers' Literature
2025Island StormNPR Books We Love source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Books We Love
2025Island StormHorn Book Fanfare source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Picture Books
2025Island StormKirkus Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Picture Books
2025Island StormPublishers Weekly Best Books source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Picture Books
2021Keeping the City GoingPublishers Weekly Best Books source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Picture Books
2014LocomotiveRandolph Caldecott Medal source (opens in a new tab)Winner · Picture Book
2014LocomotiveRobert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Informational Book
2014LocomotiveNCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Nonfiction for Children
2013LocomotiveChicago Public Library Best of the Best source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Best Informational Books
2013LocomotiveBooklist Editors' Choice source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Books for Youth: Nonfiction, Young Readers
2013LocomotivePublishers Weekly Best Books source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Children's Nonfiction
2013LocomotiveHorn Book Fanfare source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Nonfiction
2013LocomotiveSchool Library Journal Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Nonfiction
2013LocomotiveKirkus Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Picture Books
2011Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian SpringNCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source (opens in a new tab)Winner · Nonfiction for Children
2011Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian SpringRobert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Informational Book
2010Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Informational Book
2009Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11School Library Journal Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Best Books
2009Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11Booklist Editors' Choice source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Books for Youth: Young
2009Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11Horn Book Fanfare source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Nonfiction
2008LightshipRobert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal source (opens in a new tab)Honor · Informational Book
2007LightshipBooklist Editors' Choice source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Books for Youth: Young

Books

  1. Locomotive9 sources · 2013 to 2014
  2. Island Storm5 sources · 2025
  3. Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 114 sources · 2009 to 2010
  4. Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring2 sources · 2011
  5. Lightship2 sources · 2007 to 2008
  6. Keeping the City Going1 source · 2021