Kate Duke (1956-)

Library of Congress Book of the Year, Parents Choice Award, Remarkable Books for Literature, Children's Choice Award, International Reading Association/ Children's Book Council (IRA/CBC), Boston Globe-Horn Book Illustration Honor Book, Booklist Children's Editors' Choice, Horn Book Honor List, and Junior Library Guild selection, all 1983, and Children's Picture Book of the Year Award, Redbook, 1986, all for The Guinea Pig ABC; Junior Library Guild selection, 1984, for Guinea Pigs Far and Near; Children's Choice Award, IRA-CBC, and Junior Library Guild selection, both 1985, both for Seven Froggies Went to School; Year's Top Prizes selection, Publishers Weekly, 1986, for Bedtime; Clean-up Day; At the Playground; and What Bounces?; Pick of the Lists selection, American Booksellers Association, 1988, for What Would a Guinea Pig Do?; Children's Choice Award, IRA-CBC, 1989, for It's Too Noisy!; Children's Choice Award, IRA-CBC, Children's Book of the Year, Bank Street Child Study Children's Book Committee, and featured book on PBS television series "Storytime" and ABC radio series "Mrs. Bush's Story Hour," all 1992, all for Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One; Best Books, School Library Journal, Parents Choice Award, and Junior Library Guild selection, all 1995, all for One Saturday Morning; New Jersey Garden State Children's Book Awards and Garden State Teen Book Awards, easy-to-read category, 2002, for One Saturday Afternoon, by Barbara Baker.