Book Awards & Distinctions
for Sean Rubin
20 Total Book Awards
The Iguanodon's Horn: How Artists and Scientists Put a Dinosaur Back Together Again and Again and Again (6)

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

Best STEM Books, 2017-2025
Selection, 2025

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2025

Cook Prize, 2012-2025
Finalist, 2025

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2024

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Science Selection, 2024
The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon: The True Story of Alan Bean (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2020

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2020

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2019

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Biography Selection, 2020
The Passover Guest (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2022

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books, 2013-2024
Selection, 2021

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Contemporary Concerns Selection, 2022

Sydney Taylor Book Award, 2001-2025
Winner, 2022
This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2022

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2021

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2022

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
History, Life, Culture in the Americas Selection, 2022
Bolivar (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Graphic Novels Selection, 2018
Bolivar Eats New York (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
City Selection, 2020