Book Awards & Distinctions
for Laurence Yep
3 Lifetime Achievement Awards 19 Total Book Awards
Dragonwings (5)

Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 1976

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2025
Honor, 1976

Phoenix Award, 1986-2024
Winner, 1995
Child of the Owl (2)
The Case of the Goblin Pearls (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1997
Dragon Road (1)

CALA Annual Best Book Award, 2008-2024
Winner, 2009
The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island (1)
Dragon's Gate (1)
A Dragon's Guide to Making Your Human Smarter (1)

Children's Favorites Award, 2015-2025
Selection, 2017
Dragons of Silk (1)

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Middle Selection, 2012
The Lost Garden (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1991
The Rainbow People (1)
The Star Fisher (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1991
The Star Maker (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2012
Tongues of Jade (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1991
When I Was Your Age (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996