Awards

HONOURS & AWARDS

Winner of the Dickens' Fellowship Award, UK 1972
Winner of the Irish Post Award, UK 1982

For adults:

SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD 2001
Shortlisted for the WA Premier's Award, Australia

LIFE SENTENCE 1991
Shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award, Australia
The Weekend Australian Critics' Choice of the Year's Best Books

THE REBELS AND THE HOSTAGE 1978
Winner of the UK North West Arts Award

For children and Young Adults:

SHOTS 1986
Shortlisted for The Other Award, UK
Shortlisted for the Observer Teenage Fiction Prize, UK
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, UK
Children's Book Foundation Best Books of the Year, UK

Picture books

I'LL TAKE YOU TO MRS COLE 1985
Winner of the Limburg Children's Book Prize, Netherlands
Shortlisted for the Smarties Prize, UK
Shortlisted for the German Young People's Literature Prize
Shortlisted for the Burnley Children's Book Prize, UK
Federation of Children's Book Groups Best Books of the Year, UK

A COUNTRY FAR AWAY 1988
Winner of the Christian Media Children's Book Prize, France
Parents Magazine Best Books of the Year Award, USA
NSCC/CBS Notable Children's Book, USA
Children's Book Foundation Best Books of the Year, UK
IRA-CBC Favourite Paperbacks for 1994, USA

LITTLE BEAR'S GRANDAD 2000
Winner of the Prix Chronos, France
Federation of Children's Book Groupls Best Books of the Year

A BALLOON FOR GRANDAD 1988
Runner-up for the Mother Goose Award, UK
Booklist Editors' Choice, USA
NSCC/CBS Notable Children's Book, USA
Library of Congress 'Books for Children' choice, USA
Children's Book Foundation Best Books of the Year, UK

FULL HOUSE 1998
A Notable Children's Book, Children's Book Council of Australia

LITTLE PIG'S TALE 1990
Shortlisted for the WA Premier's Award, Australia
Child Education, Best Books of the Year, UK

RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME 1995
Shortlisted for an APA Award, Australia

THE FROG PRINCE 1996
Shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Award, Australia

ANNA'S GHOST 1991
Shortlisted for the WA Premier's Award, Australia

FLY 1994
A Notable Children’s Book, Children's Book Council of Australia

THE GROCER'S DAUGHTER 1994
A Notable Children’s Book, Children’s Book Council of Australia

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