Awards and Honors

1944 – Ohioana Book Award second place, Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library Association, for The Great Quillow

1944 – Caldecott Honor Book, for Many Moons

1946 – Ohioana Book Award, Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library Association, for The White Deer

1949 – Laughing Lions of Columbia University Award

1953 – Sesquicentennial Career Medal, Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library Association

1956 – T-Square Award, American Cartoonists Society

1957 – Library and Justice Award, American Library Association, for Further Fables for Our Time

1960 – Antoinette Perry ("Tony") Special Award, for A Thurber Carnival

1961 – Certificate of Award, Ohio State University, Class of 1916, for "Meritorious Service to Humanity and to Our Alma Mater"

Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2005.

Gale Database: Contemporary Authors Online