Book Awards & Distinctions
for Elizabeth Zunon
34 Total Book Awards
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia (8)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2016

Children's Africana Book Awards, 1992-2025
Commended, 2016

Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2024
Honor, 2016

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2015

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Environment, Energy, Ecology Selection, 2016
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Picture Book Adaptation) (6)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

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

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2013
Bedtime for Sweet Creatures (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2021

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2020

Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Picture Book Selection, 2020
I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon (3)

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2019

Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2024
Honor, 2020

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Multicultural Selection, 2019
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne (3)

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

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2017

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Women's History Selection, 2018
Poems in the Attic (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2016

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2016

Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2016
Lala Salama: A Tanzanian Lullaby (2)
Bottle Tops: The Art of El Anatsui (1)
Don't Call Me Grandma (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2017