Awards & Notable Book List
Hands Around the Library
- 2013 Middle East Studies Association Best Picture Book
- 2013 Arab American Book Award
- Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of 2013 (Nine to Twelve)
- 2013 Notable Social Studies Trade Books (National Council for the Social Studies and Children's Book Council)
- 2013 Notable Books for a Global Society (International Reading Association)
- 2013 Best Books for Young Children by the Children's Africana Book Awards Committee
- 2013 NCTE Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award Recommended List
- 2013 Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices (CCBC - University of Wisconsin)