• Awarded Certificate of Merit, 21st Annual National Exhibition of the Society of Illustrators
• Awarded 1979 CEBA Award of Merit for work in Black Enterprise Magazine.

• Featured in the Anheuser-Busch television commercial for "Roots: The Second Generation," advertising the "Great Kings Of Africa" series of paintings, which includes three Higgins Bond paintings.  

• Presented the "Key to the City" by Mayor William H. Hudnut III of Indianapolis, IN (1981)
• Received Medal of Honor from the Arkansas Sesquicentennial Committee honoring  distinguished Arkansans in 1986, presented by Governor Bill Clinton.
• Illustrator of the Jan Matzeliger (1991), W.E.B. DuBois (1992), and Percy L. Julian (1993)  
• 29-cent commemorative stamps for the United States Postal Service.

• Book Award of Excellence (1993) for When I Was Little, by Toyomi Ingus, awarded by the Multicultural Exchange.  

• Parents' Choice Approval Seal (1998) for Sonq of La Selva: A Story of A Costa Rican

• Rain Forest, by Joan Banks.  

• Inducted in the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame (1997)

• Member of the National Society of Illustrators - New York, NY.  

• Illustrator of four stamps for the United Nations Postal Administration on Endangered Species, issued February 2001.  

• Guest lecturer at numerous colleges, universities and schools.

Books Illustrated

• 1999 Facts About Blacks by Raymond M. Corbin, Beckham House Publishers (1986)
• When I Was Little, by Toyomi Ingus, Just Us Books (1992)
• Ancient Rome by Daniel Cohen, Doubleday (1992)
• Time for Sleep by Claire Chapelle, Macmillan/McGraw Hill (1993)
• Younq Martin's Promise by Walter Dean Myers, Raintree Steck-Vaughn (1993)
• Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice by Garnet Nelson Jackson, Modern           Curriculum Press (1994)
• Susie Kinq Taylor Destined To Be Free by Denise M. Jordon, Just Us Books (1994)
• Toni Morrison, Author by Garnet Nelson Jackson, Modem Curriculum Press (1995)
• Handshake in Space by Sheri Tan, Smithsonian Institution and The Trudy Corporation (1998)
• Song of La Selva: A Story of A Costa Rican Rain Forest by Joan Banks, The Nature   Conservancy and The Trudy Corporation (1998)
• Do Whales Have Belly Buttons? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, Scholastic Inc. (1998)
• Why Do Volcanoes Blow Their Tops? by Melvin and Gilda Berqer, Scholastic Inc. (1999)
• Do Tornadoes Really Twist? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, Scholastic Inc. (2000)
• Do Penquins Get Frostbite? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, Scholastic Inc. (2000)
• Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather, Easton Press (2001)
• Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather, Easton Press (2001)
• Death Comes For The Archbishop by Willa Cather, Easton Press (2001)
• Hey, Daddy! Animal Fathers and their Babies by Mary Batten, Peachtree Publishers   (2002)
• Trails Above the Tree Line by Audrey Fraggalosh, Soundprints Division of the Trudy   Corp. (2002)
• Where Did The Butterfly Get Its Name? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, Scholastic Inc.    (2002)
• Elgin. American Bible Society (2002)
• Jesus Prays To His Father, (Book 19 Level 1) Base on Mathew 26. 36-45, Text adapted By Suzette Haden Elgin. American Bible Society (2002)
• The Seven Seas, Exploring the World Ocean by Linda Viera, Walker & Company,     (2003)
• Groundhog at Evergreen Road by Susan Korman, The Trudy Corporation and the   Smithsonian Institution (2003)
• Then I Think of God by Martha Whitmore Hickman, Albert Whitman & Company, ((2003)
• Who Has A Belly Button? by Mary Batten, Peachtree Publishers, (2004)
• Pen Pals by Michael Rose Ramirez, Mondo Publishing, (2004)
• The Christmas Pea Coat by Richard H Schneider, Ideals Children's Books, (2004)
• I Am Sacaiawea, I Am York, by Claire Rudolf Murphy, Walker & Company, (2004)
• The Mighty Mississippi, by Linda Vieira, Walker & Company, (2005)
• A Place For Butterflies by Melissa Stewart, Peachtree Publishers, (2006)