 It also received the "New York Herald Tribune's" Children's Spring Book Festival Award.In 1963, the American Library Association named "Gone-Away Lake" as the U.S. nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award, from the International Board on Books for Young People (announced at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Bologna, Italy, and presented by the Queen of Denmark) and in 1970, thirteen years after its publication, it also received the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.The first editions of "Gone-Away Lake" and its 1961 sequel, "Return to Gone-Away", were illustrated by noted illustrators Joe and Beth Krush.