Angela Shanté Awards:

• 3rd Annual Student Choice Award, Meet-The-Writers

• 2025 Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Poetry, Children's Literature Council Of Southern California

• 2025 Bank Street Best Book of the Year

• 2025 Finalist, The YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award

• Finalist, 2024 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

• Silver medalist, 2022 Irma Black Bank Street of Education Book Award for Best Picture Book

• Finalist, 2020 CBC Kids' Book Choice Awards for Favorite Illustrated Character

• Winner, 2020 The Wishing Shelf Book Award: Picture Books for Ages 6-8

• Finalist, 2020 Forward Indie for Children's Picture Books for 6-8-Year-Olds

• Winner, 2020 American Fiction Awards Best Cover Design: Children's Books

• Finalist, 2020 American Fiction Awards for Children's Fiction