Awards and recognition

Eight books submitted. Eight books honored.

Professor ANT books have earned seven Mom’s Choice Gold Awards and one Mom’s Choice Silver Award across stories that encourage sensory discovery, compassion, resilience, friendship, and independent thought.

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Independent recognition across the collection.

7 Gold 1 Silver

For parents, educators, librarians, and sponsors, the honors offer third-party confirmation of the quality and family-friendly appeal behind the series.

Explore the award-winning books

The honored books

Seven Gold. One Silver.

Does Your Nose Smell? book cover
Ages 4-8Mom’s Choice Gold

Two books in one flip book

Does Your Nose Smell?

The funny double meaning makes children laugh, look again, and investigate.

Do Your Eyes Look Good? book cover
Ages 4-8Mom’s Choice Gold

Two books in one flip book

Do Your Eyes Look Good?

Pictures, sounds, shadows, and surprising questions turn noticing into an adventure.

Do Your Fingers Feel Good? book cover
Ages 4-8Mom’s Choice Gold

Two books in one flip book

Do Your Fingers Feel Good?

A playful question opens a surprisingly rich conversation about touch and emotion.

A Loaf of Bread book cover
Ages 4-8Mom’s Choice Gold

Illustrated paperback

A Loaf of Bread

A familiar loaf becomes the unexpected doorway to bodies, brains, gravity, and animals.

You Care book cover
Ages 4-8Mom’s Choice Gold

Illustrated paperback

You Care

Rhymes, humor, and surprising reveals keep children predicting what comes next.

Recycle Bin book cover
Ages 4-8Mom’s Choice Gold

Illustrated paperback

Recycle Bin

A silly rhyme trail leads somewhere children do not expect: their own remarkable bodies.

In the Rain book cover
Ages 4-8Mom’s Choice Gold

Illustrated paperback

In the Rain

Visual puzzles and playful questions make big ideas about the brain and mind approachable.

Emma Makes Three book cover
Ages 8-12Mom’s Choice Silver

Story for growing readers

Emma Makes Three

Friendship, change, and honest challenges give growing readers a story that never talks down to them.

Recognition with a purpose

Books parents, educators, and partners can feel good about.

Awards help people discover the books. The most meaningful result comes next: a child laughs, pauses, asks a question, and develops an idea independently.