Book Awards & Distinctions
for Paul B. Janeczko
1 Lifetime Achievement Award 41 Total Book Awards
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems (10)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2015

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2015

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2014

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2014

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2014

Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, 1993-2024
Honor, 2015

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2024
Selection, 2015

Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2015

Publishers Weekly Best Books, 2010-2024
Picture Book Selection, 2014

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2014
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms (6)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2006

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2006

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2005

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2005
A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2002

Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, 1993-2024
Honor, 2002

NYT Best Illustrated Children’s Books, 1952-2024
Selection, 2001
The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog: And Other How-To Poems (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2020

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Emergent Selection, 2019

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2019

Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2020
The Death of the Hat: A Brief History of Poetry in 50 Objects (3)
Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto (3)

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2012

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2024
Selection, 2012

Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2011
Stone Bench in an Empty Park (3)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2001

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001

Lee Bennett Hopkins Award, 1993-2024
Honor, 2001
Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005
Where I Live: Poems about My Home, My Street, and My Town (2)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
City Selection, 2023

Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2025
Selection, 2024
The Dark Game: True Spy Stories (1)
A Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing and Shout (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2010
The Place My Words Are Looking For: What Poets Say about and Through Their Work (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1990
Secret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
History Selection, 2019