Anne's awards

Major awards

The British
Book Award

The Carnegie
Medal

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2003)

Children's Laureate 2001-2003

OBE

in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours list

Boston Globe Horn Book Award (USA - 2003)

for Stories of Jamie and Angus

Prix Versele 2000 (Belgium)

for Louis le bavard (Loudmouth Louis)

Prix Versele 1998 (Belgium) and Prix Sorcières 1998 (France)

for Journal d'un chat assassin (Diary of a Killer Cat)

UK nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Author Award (1998)

Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, 1996

for The Tulip Touch

Nasen Special Educational Needs Book Award 1996

for How to Write Really Badly

Carnegie Medal 1993 and Whitbread Children's Novel Award 1993

for Flour Babies

Twice British Book Awards Children's Author of the Year

in 1990 and 1993

Carnegie Medal 1990 and Guardian Fiction Award 1990

for Goggle Eyes

Anne (centre) receives her honorary degree from Warwick University. On the left: Professor Jackie Labbe, English Department, and right: Professor David VandeLinde, Vice-Chancellor
Photo: © 2005 University of Warwick, used with permission.

Honorary degrees

Degree of Doctor of Letters

The University of Teesside, 23rd November 2007

Degree of Doctor of Letters honoris causa

The University of Warwick, 12 July 2005

Doctor of the University

The University of Central England in Birmingham, 7 February 2003.

Award Winning Books

Ivan the Terrible

Silver medal in the 2007 Nestlé Children's Book awards

The Road of Bones

Shortlisted, Carnegie Medal, 2007

Up on Cloud Nine

Highly commended, Carnegie Medal, 2002
American Library Association Notable Book Editor's Choice (USA - 2003)

Stories of Jamie and Angus

Boston Globe Horn Book Award (USA - 2003)

A Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice (USA)

Bad Dreams

Shortlisted for WH Smith Book Awards 2001

Loudmouth Louis (Louis le bavard)

Prix Versele 2000 (Belgium)

Charm School

Shortlisted for Sheffield Children's Book Award 2000

U.S.A.

ALA Notable Children's Book
Booklist Editor's Choice "Top of the List" Fiction
Bulletin, Blue Ribbon List, 1997
School Library Journal's "Best Books of '97"
River Bank Review "Children's Book of Distinction"

The Tulip Touch

Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, 1996
Highly Commended, Carnegie Medal, 1997
Shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award, 1997
Runner up for the Lancs Library Children's Book of the Year
Wirral Paperback of the Year, 1998

How to Write Really Badly

Shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award 1997
Shortlisted for the Stockport Schools Book Award

Step by Wicked Step

Nasen Special Educational Needs Book Award 1996
Shortlisted for Sheffield Children's Book Award, 1996
Shortlisted for Lancashire Children's Book Award, 1996.

French translation: Journal d'un chat assassin

Prix Versele 1998 (Belgium)
Prix Sorcières 1998 (France)

Diary of a Killer Cat

Winner of the Nottinghamshire Libraries Award, 1995

U.S.A.

Boston Globe/Horn Book Award Honour Book 1994
School Library Journal Best Book of 1994
American Library Association Notable Children's Book

Flour Babies

Carnegie Medal 1993
Winner of Whitbread Children's Novel Award 1993
Highly Commended Sheffield Children's Book Award 1993
Shortlisted for WH Smith Mind-Boggling Book Award 1993
Birmingham TSB Children's Book Award, 1995

The Angel of Nitshill Road

Shortlisted for Carnegie Medal 1993
Shortlisted for Federation of Children's Book Groups Award 1993

Taking the Devil's Advice

Shortlisted for Glasgow Herald People's Prize 1991
Shortlisted for Grand Prix des Lectrices d'Elle 1993

A Pack of Liars

Winner of Dillons/Puffin Birmingham Book Award 1991

U.S.A.: My War With Goggle-Eyes

American Library Association Notable Book
International Reading Association Young Adult Choice for 1991
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Goggle-Eyes

Carnegie Medal 1990
Winner of Guardian Children's Fiction Award 1990
Shortlisted for Smarties Award (9 - 11 section) 1990

Shortlisted for German Youth Literature Prize 1993

Bill's New Frock

Winner of the Smarties Award (6 - 8 section) 1990
Highly Commended, Carnegie Medal 1990
Winner of the Nottinghamshire Libraries Award 1990

Madame Doubtfire

Shortlisted for Observer Teenage Fiction Prize 1987
Shortlisted for Whitbread Children's Novel Award 1987
Runner-up for Guardian Children's Fiction Award 1987

The Killjoy

Scottish Arts Council Book Award 1986
Recommended, David Higham Prize for Fiction 1986

The Granny Project

Shortlisted for Guardian Children's Fiction Award 1984

The Summer House Loon

Runner-up Kestrel/Guardian Competition 1975