Awards
- Winner, Canadian Science Writers, Science in Society Children's Book Award, 2005
- Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2008
- Short-listed, OLA SIlver Birch Award, Non-Fiction, 2007
- Short-listed, Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, 2006
- Short-listed, Children's Literature Roundtables of Canada, Information Book Award, 2006
- Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2006
- Commended, Canadian Toy Testing Council, Top Ten, 2007