Book Awards & Distinctions
for Tony Johnston
29 Total Book Awards
My Abuelita (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2010

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Commended, 2010

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2010

Pura Belpré Awards, 1996-2025
Illustrator Honor, 2010
Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio (3)

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2002

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2002

Phoenix Award, 1986-2024
Honor, 2021
Beast Rider: A Boy's Journey Beyond the Border (3)

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Winner, 2020

Young Adult Favorites Award, 2015-2024
Selection, 2020
Born Naughty: My Childhood in China (3)

El día de los niños / El día de los libros, 2013-2025
Grades 3-5 Selection, 2025

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Elementary Selection, 2024
Uncle Rain Cloud (3)

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Commended, 2001

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2001

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2002
Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fairly Fabricated Story of a Pair of Pants (2)

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

Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2011
My Mexico / Mexico mío (2)

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Commended, 1996

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996
The Cat with Seven Names (1)

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2015-2025
Social Interactions & Relationships Selection, 2014
Day of the Dead (1)

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Commended, 1997
The Magic Maguey (1)

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Commended, 1996
The Magic of Letters (1)
An Old Shell: Poems of the Galapagos (1)

Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, 1993-2025
Honor, 2000
Small Thing . . . But Big (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Character Building Selection, 2016
The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote (1)

Américas Award, 1993-2024
Commended, 1994
The Wagon (1)
Winter Is Coming (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015