Book Awards & Distinctions
for Emma Bland Smith
14 Total Book Awards
The Fabulous Fannie Farmer: Kitchen Scientist and America's Cook (5)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2025
Best STEM Books, 2017-2025
Selection, 2025
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2025
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Biography Selection, 2024
Mathical Book Prize, 2015-2025
Grades 3-5 Winner, 2025
The Gardener of Alcatraz (3)
Children's Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2023
Librarian Favorites Award, 2023-2025
Selection, 2023
Teacher Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2023
The Pig War: How a Porcine Tragedy Taught England and America to Share (2)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2021
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
World History & Culture Selection, 2021
Growing Up in the Shadow of Alcatraz: Childhood on a Prison Island (1)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Instructional Nonfiction Selection, 2025
How Science Saved the Eiffel Tower (1)
Best STEM Books, 2017-2025
Selection, 2023
Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7, the Most Famous Wolf in the West (1)
Cook Prize, 2012-2025
Winner, 2017

Mr. McCloskey's Marvelous Mallards: The Making of Make Way for Ducklings (1)