Awards & Honors

During my long career, my books have received many awards and honors, including the following:

• 1977 Golden Kite Honor Book (Society of Children's Book Writers) for          EVOLUTION GOES ON EVERY DAY
  
• 1980 Golden Kite Award Book for THE LIVES OF SPIDERS
  
• 1982 ALA Notable Book--SPIDER MAGIC
  
• 1985 Library of Congress--Children's Books of the Year--WHERE THE          BALD EAGLES GATHER
  
• 1986 School Library Journal, Best Books of the Year--BUFFALO: THE          AMERICAN BISON TODAY
  
• 1986 ALA Best Books for Young Adults--THE QUEST FOR ARTIFICIAL          INTELLIGENCE
  
• 1987 Eva Gordon Award from the American Nature Study Society, an annual award given to a children's science author for the contribution of his/her body of work to science education
  
• 1990 New York Public Library Books for the Teenage--HOW SMART ARE ANIMALS?
  
• 1992 School Library Journal  Best Books of the Year and American          Bookseller Magazine  Pick of the Lists--FEATHERS
  
• 1994 Children's Choice Award book, HUGGER TO THE RESCUE
  
• 1994 New York Public Library Books for the Teenage--THE VANISHING FEAST
  
• 1994 Lud Browman Award for Science Writing, Friends of the Mansfield Library, University of Montana
  
• 1996 Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best--BIODIVERSITY
  
• 1996 National Science Teachers’ Association Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children
  
• 1996 RETURN OF THE WOLF and EAGLES OF AMERICA
• 1997 Garden State Children's Book Award Nominee--HUGGER TO THE         RESCUE
  
• 1997 Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year- PRAIRIES, CHILDREN SAVE THE RAINFOREST, and (starred) BIODIVERSITY
  
• 1997 AAAS Best Science Books of 1996--BIODIVERSITY
  
• 1997 Scientific American Books for Young People Award--PIGEONS
  
• 1998 Great Stone Face Award nominee--RETURN OF THE WOLF
  
• 1998 Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year - BACK TO THE WILD and FLASHY FANTASTIC RAIN FOREST FROGS
  
• 1998 AAAS Best Science Books of 1998--APPLE TREES
  
• 1998 National Science Teachers’ Association Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1998--BACK TO THE WILD and PIGEONS
  
• 1999 Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year - APPLE TREES and FIRE: FRIEND OR FOE
  
• 1999 CBC-IRA Children's Choices selection--ALEX AND FRIENDS: ANIMAL TALK, ANIMAL THINKING
  
• 2000 New York Public Library Books for the Teenage--SHAPING THE EARTH
  
• 2001 National Science Teachers’ Association Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children 2001--SLINKY SCALY SLITHERY SNAKES
  
• 2002 International Reading Association/Children’s Book Council         
• Children’s Choice for 2002--HORSES
  
• 2002 National Science Teachers’ Association Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children 2002--CHARLES DARWIN: THE LIFE OF A REVOLUTIONARY THINKER
  
• 2002 The John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers for         
• 2001 CHARLES DARWIN: THE LIFE OF A REVOLUTIONARY THINKER
  
• 2003 New York Public Library Books for the Teenage--CHARLES DARWIN: THE LIFE OF A REVOLUTIONARY THINKER
  
• 2003 The John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers for         
• 2002 ANIMALS ON THE TRAIL WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
  
• 2003 National Science Teachers’ Association Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children 2003--LIFE IN A GRASSLAND and ANIMALS ON THE TRAIL WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
  
• 2003 Finalist, Spur Award  in Juvenile Non Fiction, Western Writers of America--THE LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL THEN AND NOW
  
• 2003 Spring/Summer 2003 Children’s Book Sense 76 List, PLANTS ON THE TRAIL WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
  
• 2003 National Science Teachers’ Association Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 2004--FABULOUS FLUTTERING TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES; PLANTS ON THE TRAIL WITH LEWIS AND CLARK
  
• 2003 Kansas State Reading Circle Masterlist for 2003--FABULOUS FLUTTERING TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
  
• 2004 Washington Post/Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award for the body of work
  
• 2004 Nominee, AAAS Science Books and Films Key Award, for the body of work
  
• 2005 National Science Teachers’ Association Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 2005: GARDEN OF THE SPIRIT BEAR
  
• 2006 Sequayah Award Nominee: THE RIGHT DOG FOR THE JOB
  
• 2007 Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Children’s Book Award--THE BUFFALO AND THE INDIANS: A SHARED DESTINY
  
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