Awards and Honors
- First recipient of the E.P. Dutton-John Macrae Award (1953)
- Parents Magazine Medal Award (1966)
- ALA Grolier Award (1968)
- Women's National Book Association, Constance Lindsay Skinner Award (1971)
- Clarence Day Award (1975)
- Honorary ALA Membership (1975)
- Honorary Doctorate from St. John's University (1980)
- Catholic Library Association's Regina Medal (1981)
- Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Carolina (1986)
- Second recipient of ALSC Distinguished Service Award (1993)
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