Peter Sís has won "The New York Times Book Review" Best Illustrated Book of the Year award seven times. He has also been awarded with the American Library Association's Caldecott Honor for the illustrations of his 1996 book, "Starry Messenger", the 1998 book "Tibet Through The Red Box", and his 2007 work, "". The latter book also received the ALA's 2008 Robert Silbert Medal for the most distinguished informational book for young readers. He has received a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award four times: for "Komodo" (1993), "A Small Tall Tale From the Far Far North" (1994), "Tibet Through The Red Box" (1999), and "The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain" (2008).