Awards

A Beautiful Place for a Murder • Abela – The Girl Who Saw Lions • Daughter of the Sea • Dear Nobody • Deep Secret • Fairy Stories • Granny Was a Buffer Girl • Holly Starcross • Jeannie of White Peak Farm • Our Field • Paddiwak and Cosy • Snowy • Street Child • The Famous Adventures of Jack • The Golden Bird • The Magical Bicycle • The Sailing Ship Tree • The Snake-Stone • The Water Babies • White Peak Farm • Willa and Old Miss Annie • Zzaap and the Word Master • Miscellaneous

 

A Beautiful Place for a Murder

Shortlisted The Bolton Award 2009

 

Abela – The Girl Who Saw Lions

Shortlisted The Blue Peter Book Awards ‘Couldn’t Put it Down’ category
Shortlisted The Manchester Book Award 2009
Shortlisted The Coventry Inspiration Book Awards
Shortlisted Catalyst award, 2008
Shortlisted Stockport award, 2008
Shortlisted North East Award 2009

 

Daughter of the Sea

Winner of the Writers Guild of Great Britain Award, 1997
Nominated for the Carnegie medal

 

Dear Nobody

Winner of Carnegie Medal, 1991
Shortlisted Writers Guild Of Great Britain Award
Shortlisted Society of Authors Book of the Year
Shortlisted Sheffield Award
Shortlisted Federation of children’s book groups
Winner of Sankei award (Japan)

Stage version: Winner of the Writers Guild of Great Britain award, 1992

 

Deep Secret

Nominated Carnegie Medal, 2004
Shortlisted Book Trust award for Teenage Fiction, 2004

 

Fairy Stories

Shortlisted Greenaway Medal (for Jane Ray’s illustrations)

 

Granny Was a Buffer Girl

Winner of Carnegie medal, 1986
Winner of Burnley awardHorn-Globe Honor (USA)

 

Holly Starcross

Nominated Carnegie medal

 

Jeannie of White Peak Farm

Phoenix Award 2004

 

Our Field

Shortlisted Sheffield Award, 1997

 

Paddiwak and Cosy

Shortlisted Acorn award
Shortlisted Greenaway award

 

Snowy

Winner Children’s Book Award (Picture Book category)

 

Street Child

Shortlisted Sheffield Award
Shortlisted Federation of Children’s Book Groups Award
Nominated for the Carnegie medal

 

The Famous Adventures of Jack

Nominated Blue Peter Award
Nominated for the Kentucky Bluegrass Awards, 2002–3

 

The Golden Bird

Winner of the NASEN Award, 1995

 

The Magical Bicycle

Shortlisted Kurt Maschler Award
Winner of the Oppenheim Gold Seal award, USA

 

The Sailing Ship Tree

Shortlisted Lancashire Award, 2000
Nominated Carnegie medal

 

The Snake-Stone

Shortlisted Guardian award
Shortlisted Prix Tam-Tam (France) 1999
Nominated for the Carnegie medal

 

The Water Babies (radio dramatisation)

Winner Talkies Award, 1999

 

White Peak Farm

Film and television awards, New York, 1988 (television adaptation)
Nominated for the Carnegie medal

 

Willa and Old Miss Annie

Highly Commended Carnegie Medal, 1995
Shortlisted Sheffield Award

 

Zzaap and the Word Master

Nominated Emmy Award
Nominated BAFTA Award (television adaptation)

 

Miscellaneous

Honorary Doctorate, University of Derby, 2002
Nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2005
Culture Champion of the Peak District National Park
Derbyshire Reading Champion 2010–2012