Book Awards & Distinctions
for Douglas Florian
31 Total Book Awards
Beast Feast (3)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1994

Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, 1993-2025
Winner, 1995
Insectlopedia (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 1999

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1998
Mammalabilia (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001

NYT Best Illustrated Children’s Books, 1952-2024
Selection, 2000
Bow Wow Meow Meow: It's Rhyming Cats and Dogs (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004

Gryphon Award, 2004-2021
Winner, 2004
Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings (2)
In the Swim: Poems and Paintings (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997
Lizards, Frogs, and Polliwogs: Poems and Paintings (2)
Unbeelievables: Honeybee Poems and Paintings (2)
Windsongs: Poems about Weather (2)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2024
Winter Eyes (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2000

NYT Best Illustrated Children’s Books, 1952-2024
Selection, 1999
Autumnblings (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004
Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings (1)
Handsprings (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2007
Ice! Poems about Polar Life (1)

Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, 1993-2025
Honor, 2021
A Pig is Big (1)
Poem Runs: Baseball Poems (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013
Shabbat Shalom! (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2022