 The two annual awards by professional children's librarians recognize the year's "most distinguished contribution to American children's literature" and "most distinguished American picture book for children".The first two books of the Anatole trilogy were named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1977 and 1979.The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education from 1958 to 1979 annually named several "all time" books that belong on the same shelf as Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland".