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ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Picture This How Pictures Work di M. Bang (Get Creative – 2007)

Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award

• Jackson Pollock di Glenn Lowry (2000)

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

• Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia (Saggistica – 1989)

The Best Children's Books of the Year

• David Macaulay: City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction di David Macaulay (For Special Interests—The Arts – 1974)

Best Fiction for Young Adults

• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (Selection – 1990)

Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books

• Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America di Jacqueline Barnitz (Arts and Literature – 2001)

Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth

• Building Big (2000)

Books From All 50 States (and Washington, D.C.!)

• Mill di David Macaulay (Rhode Island)

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award

• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (Vincitore – Saggistica – 1989)

British Book Award

• The Art Book di Editors of Phaidon Press (Vincitore – Illustrated Book of the Year – 1995)

Caldecott Medal

• David Macaulay: Castle di David Macaulay (Honor Book – 1978)
• David Macaulay: Cathedral di David Macaulay (Honor Book – 1974)

CCBC Choices

• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (1988)
• Mill di David Macaulay (History, People and Places – 1983)

Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award

• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (Candidato – 1991)

Charlotte Award

• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (Vincitore – 1990)

Christopher Award

• Pyramid di David Macaulay (Books for Young People – 1976)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

• Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000 (Silver Medal – Californiana – 2001)

George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award

• Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set - Volume I & II: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs di Sarah et al. Greenough (Vincitore – 2003)
• Envisioning Information di Edward R. Tufte (Vincitore – 1991)
• Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas di David Anfam (Vincitore – 1999)
• Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne (3 volumes) (Yale University Art Gallery) di Ani Boyajian (Vincitore – 2007)

Gouden Griffel

• David Macaulay: Cathedral di David Macaulay (Zilveren – Griffel – 1975)
• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (Zilveren – Penseel – 1990)
• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (Zilveren – Griffel – 1990)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• David Macaulay: Castle di David Macaulay (1978)
• David Macaulay: Cathedral di David Macaulay (1974)
• David Macaulay: City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction di David Macaulay (1975)
• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (1989)
• Mill di David Macaulay (1984)
• Picture This How Pictures Work di M. Bang (1993)
• Unbuilding (Sandpiper) di David Macaulay (1981)

Independent Publisher Book Awards

• Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings (Library of New England) di Thomas Durant Visser (Finalista – Architecture/Interior Design – 1998)
• Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects di Andy Grundberg (Finalista – Photography – 2005)
• Saul Steinberg: Illuminations di Joel Smith (Bronze – Fine Art – 2007)
• Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative di Edward R. Tufte (Finalista – Science – 1998)
• Whitney Biennial 2002: 2002 Biennial Exhibition (Whitney Biennial) di Lawrence Rinder (Finalista – Fine Art – 2003)

James Henry Breasted Prize

• The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 3: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and (1999)

Kentucky Bluegrass Award

• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (Candidato – Grades 4-8 – 1990)
• Unbuilding (Sandpiper) di David Macaulay (Candidato – Grades 4-8 – 1983)

Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Children's Books

• David Macaulay: Castle di David Macaulay (1964-1978)
• David Macaulay: Cathedral di David Macaulay (1964-1978)
• David Macaulay: Cathedral di David Macaulay (Arts and Hobbies – 1973)
• David Macaulay: City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction di David Macaulay (1964-1978)
• Unbuilding (Sandpiper) di David Macaulay (1980)

National Jewish Book Award

• Eva Hesse: Sculpture di Elisabeth Sussman (Finalista – Visual Arts – 2007)

NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People

• David Macaulay: Cathedral di David Macaulay (2000)
• Unbuilding (Sandpiper) di David Macaulay (Contemporary Concerns—Other – 1981)

NCTE Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K—Grade 6

• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (11th Edition: 1993-1995)

New York Times bestseller

• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous – 1988)

Notable Children's Book

• Building Big (2001)

NPR's Complete Holiday Book Recommendations

• Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations di Vincent Virga (2007)

NPR: Books We Love

• Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature di Andy Goldsworthy (2015)

NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K–12

• Building Big (Physical Science – 2001)

Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Book Award

• David Macaulay: Castle di David Macaulay (Revised, all-color edition – 2013)
• David Macaulay: Cathedral di David Macaulay (2013)

Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science

• Envisioning Information di Edward R. Tufte (Vincitore – 1991)

Prix Sorcières

• Tidying Up Art di Ursus Wehrli (Documentaires – 2004)

PROSE Award

• Design By Numbers di John Maeda (Vincitore – Computer Science – 1999)
• The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 1: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies (The Hist (R. R. Hawkins Award – 1992)
• Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock (A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) di Kirk Varnedoe (Vincitore – Arts & Art History – 2006)
• Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonne (3 volumes) (Yale University Art Gallery) di Ani Boyajian (Honorable Mention – Art & Art History – 2007)

Reading the West Book Award

• Ansel Adams at 100 di Ansel Adams (Vincitore – Art/Poetry – 2002)

Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize

• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (Vincitore – Junior – 1989)

Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize

• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (Vincitore – 1989)

Science Communication Awards

• The Way Things Work di David Macaulay (Children – 1990)

Sequoyah Book Award

• Pyramid di David Macaulay (Candidato – Per bambini – 1978)

Texas Bluebonnet Award

• Unbuilding (Sandpiper) di David Macaulay (Candidato – 1982)

Utah Beehive Book Award

• Pyramid di David Macaulay (Candidato – Narrativa per ragazzi – 1980)

Village Voice Favorite Books

• Diane Arbus Revelations di Diane Arbus (2003)

The White Ravens

• Flying di Kveta Pacovska (German / Switzerland – 1996)
• Tidying Up Art di Ursus Wehrli (German / Switzerland – 2004)

William Allen White Children's Book Award

• David Macaulay: Castle di David Macaulay (Candidato – 1979-1980)
• David Macaulay: Cathedral di David Macaulay (Candidato – 1975-1976)
• Mill di David Macaulay (Candidato – 1985-1986)
• Unbuilding (Sandpiper) di David Macaulay (Candidato – 1982-1983)