Awards
- 1983: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Picture Book category, A Chair for My Mother
- 1983: Caldecott Honor, A Chair for My Mother
- 1985: Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Honor Book, Music, Music for Everyone
- 1991: Caldecott Honor, "More More More" Said the Baby
- 1994: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Fiction category, Scooter
- 1995: Library of Congress exhibition, "Family, Friends, and Community: The Art of Vera B. Williams"
- 1998: Charlotte Zolotow Award, Lucky Song
- 2002: Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Honor Book, Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
- 2008: Regina Medal of the Catholic Library Association; body of work
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