Notable Awards & Praise

Georgia was selected for the 2023 Excellence in Poetry for Children Award from the National Council of Teachers of English. The award honors a living American poet for their aggregate work for children ages 3-13.

  • Winner of the 2024 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award

  • Best Poetry Book: School Library Journal’s Best Books of 2023

  • Recommended by The Academy of American Poets as a 2023 Summer Book for Young Readers

  • Starred Reviews, School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews

  • Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, 2022

  • NCTE Notable Children’s Book in Language Arts

  • Selected as one of the 20 books for California State Library’s First Partner’s Summer Book Club.

  • Featured in New York Times Book Review, April 2019

  • Cited by Instructor Magazine as one of the “10 Books Every Teacher Should Read”

  • CCBC Choice Award

  • Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, 2013

  • 2010 NCTE Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts

  • Top Fifty Children’s Books, Child Magazine Award, 2002