Awarded the Bronze prize in the Books category of the Association of Illustrators Images awards, 2014. Shortlisted for the Bolton Children's Book Award, 2015; the Heart of Hawick Children's Book Award, 2014; the Sefton Super Reads Award, 2015; the Staffordshire Young Teen Fiction Award. Highly Commended for Macmillain Children's Prize, 2014 and 2013; shortlisted for the Emerging Talent Category of the British Comic Awards, 2014. Winner of the Warwick, Leeds, Sefton, Calderdale, and Wirral book awards, and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2011. Winner of the Silver Nestlé Smarties Children's Book Prize, 2002; winner of the Branford Boase Award, 2002; nominated for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, 2007. Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, 2004, 1994, 1987; winner of the Carnegie Medal, 1988; awarded the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, 1989; winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year award, 2000 and Blue Peter 'Best Book to Keep Forever' award, 2001;
