Book Awards & Distinctions
for Pamela S. Turner
38 Total Book Awards
The Frog Scientist (7)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2010

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2010

Green Earth Book Award, 2005-2025
Honor, 2010

Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2009

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Honor, 2010
How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps (6)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2023

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2023

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2022

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2023

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2022
Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World's Brightest Bird (4)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2017

Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2024
Selection, 2016

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Science Selection, 2016
Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes (4)

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

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2006
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2017

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Young Adult Selection, 2016

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2016

YALSA Nonfiction Award, 2010-2025
Finalist, 2017
Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog (3)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2005

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Picture Book Text Honor, 2005

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2005
Life on Earth - And Beyond: An Astrobiologist's Quest (3)
Comet Chaser: The True Cinderella Story of Caroline Herschel, the First Professional Woman Astronomer (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2025

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Text for Young Readers Honor, 2025
The Dolphins of Shark Bay (2)

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Honor, 2014

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2024
Selection, 2013
A Life in the Wild: George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2009

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Winner, 2009
Project Seahorse (1)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2011