Book Awards & Distinctions
for Michael Emberley
25 Total Book Awards
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (3)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1994
I Did It! (2)
It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families (2)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2000

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000
Let's Go! (2)

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2023
The Message: The Extraordinary Journey of an Ordinary Text Message (2)
Very Short Stories to Read Together (2)
Baby's Firsts (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2019
Go! Go! Maria!: What It's Like to Be 1 (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004
Happy Birth Day! (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996
Hello Benny!: What It's Like to Be a Baby (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2003
Hi New Baby! (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001
I Can Make a Train Noise (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Pre-Kindergarten Selection, 2021
It's Not the Stork!: A Book about Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends (1)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2007
Mail Harry to the Moon (1)
Maybe a Bear Ate It! (1)
Priscilla Gorilla (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2018
Sweet Jasmine! Nice Jackson!: What It's Like to be 2--And to be Twins! (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005
Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together (1)

Gryphon Award, 2004-2021
Honor, 2005