Awards & Accolades

Nature Spy Guide has been selected by the American Library Association's Sustainable Roundtable as one of the best sustainability-themed children's books published in 2024. Read here. 

Regina Linke's BIG ENOUGH chosen as IndieNext Pick. Read here.

Crystal Simone Smith's Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound listed by Ms. Feminist Know-It-All as Best Poetry of 2024 and 2025. Read more here.  

Regina Linke's BIG ENOUGH selected as an Amazon Editor's Pick Best Books for ages 3-5. 

Stan Mack's REAL LIFE FUNNIES to receive New York City Book Award. Learn more here.

JANE JACOBS: CHAMPION OF CITIES, CHAMPION OF PEOPLE by Rebecca Pitts selected by the American Library Association for Rise: A Feminist Book Project List. Read more here.

Children's book Council and National Council for Social Studies select FINDING HOME by Gwen Agna and Shelley Rotner for Notable Social Studies Trade Book Award. Read more here. 

Light enough to float by Lauren Seal has been selected as the Schneider Family Book Award Honor book by the ALA. Read here.

Regina Linke's BIG ENOUGH, based on her Oxherd Boy webcomics, is a Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Children's Book of 2025. Read more here.

Bank Street College of Education awards The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir the Best Book of 2024 for Children's Books. 

Gwen Agna and Shelley Rotner's FINDING HOME: WORDS FROM KIDS SEEKING SANCTUARY has been selected as the Junior Library Guild's Gold Standard Collection for 2024. 

 True You: A Gender Journey by Gwen Agna and Shelley Rotner is picked as a New York Public Library Best Books for Kids 2022 pick.  

Diane deGroat's ADVENTURES OF ROBO-KID has been selected as the Junior Library Guild's Gold Standard Collection for 2022. ADVENTURES OF ROBO-KID will be published by Holiday House Summer 2022

The 2022 Best of the Net Anthology, which includes the best poetry and prose published online, selects Demree McGhee's poem Calling My Mothers in the Apocalypse. Originally published and nominated by Poetry Online.