| 2025 | Let's Be Bees | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Picture Books | |
| 2025 | Let’s Be Bees | Booklist Editors' Choice source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books for Youth: Young Fiction | |
| 2025 | Let's Be Bees | Smithsonian Magazine Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Children's | |
| 2025 | Let's Be Bees | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |
| 2025 | Let's Be Bees | Publishers Weekly Best Books source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |
| 2025 | Let’s Be Bees | School Library Journal Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |
| 2024 | The Teeny-Weeny Unicorn | Kirkus Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |
| 2023 | The Eyes and the Impossible | NPR Books We Love source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books We Love | |
| 2022 | Have You Ever Seen a Flower? | Randolph Caldecott Medal source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Honor · Picture Book | |
| 2021 | Have You Ever Seen a Flower? | BookPage Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Picture Books | |
| 2018 | Her Right Foot | NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Honor · Nonfiction for Children | |
| 2017 | Her Right Foot | NPR Books We Love source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books We Love | |