Awards

Patrick McDonnell has received numerous awards and nominations for his work on the MUTTS strip and his children’s books over the past 20 years. MUTTS has also won awards for its environmental and animal advocacy.

• 2016
  Patrick McDonnell’s Thank you and goodnight has won the 2016 NAIBA Picture Book of the Year
  Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has issued its 2016 Children’s Choices List, and Thank You and Good Night has made the picture book list!
• 2015
  Patrick McDonnell and MUTTS have been nominated for a Harvey Award
  Wanda Gág Honor for best read aloud picture book
  International Literacy Association’s 2015 Children’s Choice Award
  Gift of Nothing Musical Wins Helen Hayes Award
  Dog Fancy “45 People Who Changed the Dog World” – – number 25 is MUTTS creator Patrick McDonnell
  Publishers Weekly Best Books 2015
  The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2015
  Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children’s video: Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly Ellard, Weston Woods Studios, Inc., producers of “Me…Jane,” are the Carnegie Medal winners. This transcendent adaptation of Patrick McDonnell’s 2012 Caldecott Honor draws viewers into the childhood of a young Jane Goodall who, with beloved stuffed chimpanzee, Jubilee, is transformed by what she observes in her own backyard, a “magical world full of joy and wonder.”
  American Library Association 2015 Youth Media Award Winners
• 2014
  MUTTS Nominated for 2014 Harvey Award
  Gift of Nothing Musical Nominated for Helen Hayes Award
• 2013
  Harvey Award nomination for Best Syndicated Strip or Panel
• 2012
  Caldecott Award for Me…Jane
• 2011
  Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award, given at the Eisner Awards
• 2010
  Harvey Award Winner
• 2009
  Harvey Award Nominee
• 2007
  Hug Time—New York Times Best Seller
• 2006
  Sierra Club Award of Appreciation for raising public awareness for environmental issues
• 2005
  The Gift of Nothing—New York Times Best Seller
  The HSUS Hollywood Genesis Award for Ongoing Commitment
• 2004
  The HSUS Hollywood Genesis Award for Ongoing Commitment
• 2003
  Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip
• 2002
  Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip
• 2001
  PETA Humanitarian Award
  Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip
• 1999
  National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben for Cartoonist of the Year
  Ark Trust Genesis Award
  Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip
• 1998
  National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Award nomination
  Germany’s Max and Moritz Award for Best International Comic Strip
• 1997
  National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben for Cartoonist of the Year
  Swedish Academy of Comic Art’s Adamson Statuette
  Ark Trust Genesis Award
  Harvey Award for Best Comic Strip
• 1996
  National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Award Nominee
• 1991
  National Cartoonist Society Award for Greeting Cards
  National Cartoonist Society Award for Magazine and Book Illustration