Georgia Children’s Storybook Award
from Georgia Children’s Storybook Awards
for Max the Bad-Talking Parrot
Best Children’s Book
from Society of Midwestern Authors
for Joel Growing Up a Farm Man
Outstanding Science Book
from Children’s Book Council & National Science Teachers Association
for Those Amazing Ants
Outstanding Book in Social Sciences
from National Council for the Social Studies & Children’s Book Council
for Joel Growing Up a Farm Man
Georgia Children's Storybook Award
from Georgia Children’s Storybook Awards
for Max the Bad-Talking Parrot
Best Children’s Book
from Society of Midwestern Authors
for Joel Growing Up a Farm Man
Junior Literary Guild Selection
for City Horse
Sequoyah’s Children’s Books Masterlist
from Oklahoma Library Association
for City Horse
CCBC Choice
by Cooperative Children’s Book Center, School of Education. Madison, Wisconsin
for Joel Growing Up a Farm Man
Children’s Choices of 1987
from International Reading Association & Children’s Book Council
for Max, the Bad-Talking Parrot
1996 Children’s Books of the Year
from Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College
for Way Down Deep
“Nonfiction: 71 Top Books of the Century”
by Judy Freeman - Instructor Magazine March 2001
for Those Amazing Ants
The Winners!
Listed in The WINNERS! Handbook: A Closer Look at Judy Freeman’s Top-Rated Children’s Books
for Cradles in the Trees
The Best In Children’s Books
Listed in The Best in Children’s Books: The University of Chicago’s Guide, by Zena Sutherland
for City Horse & Joel Growing Up a Farm Man
