Awards for Rebecca E. Hirsch’s Books

2025 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers Top Ten: A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants

2025 Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices: A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants

2024 School Library Journal Best Books of the Year: A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants

2024 Kirkus Best Teen/YA Books of the Year: A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants

2024 Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year: Rise to the Sky

2024 Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choices: Rise to the Sky

2023 Science Friday’s Best STEM Books of the Year for Kids: Rise to the Sky

2023 Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books: Rise to the Sky

2023 Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choices: Where Have All the Birds Gone?

2023 Green Earth Book Award Honor: Where Have All the Birds Gone?

2023 Booklist Top 10 Environmental & Sustainability Books for Youth: Where Have All the Birds Gone?

2023 Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Year: Where Have All the Birds Gone?

2022 Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year: Where Have All the Birds Gone?

2022 Russell Freedman Award for Nonfiction for a Better World, Finalist: Where Have All the Birds Gone?

2022 New York Public Library Book of the Day: Where Have All the Birds Gone?

2022 Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year: Night Creatures

2020 Booklist Top 10 Books on the Environment & Sustainability for Youth: Where Have All the Bees Gone?

2020 Booklist Review of the Day: Where Have All the Bees Gone?

2020 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books longlist: When Plants Attack

2019 Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year, outstanding merit: The Monarchs Are Missing

2019 NYC Reads 365 kindergarten reading list: Plants Can't Sit Still

2018 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature: Climate Migrants

2017 Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year: The Human Microbiome

2017 Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year: Birds vs Blades?

2017 Riverby Award winner: Plants Can't Sit Still

2016 NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts: Plants Can't Sit Still

2016 Kirkus Best Children's Books of the Year: Plants Can't Sit Still

2016 Chicago Public Library's Kids Best of the Best Books: Plants Can't Sit Still

2016 Wilde Award/Best Children's Books of the Year: Plants Can't Sit Still

2016 Booklinks Lasting Connections: Plants Can't Sit Still

2016 Cybils Award Finalist: Plants Can't Sit Still

2015 Learning Magazine Teacher's Choice Award: Comparing Animal Traits series

2011 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Anna Cross Giblin Award