Children's Laureate from 2001-2004; received an OBE for services to literature in 2003; winner of the Carnegie Medal, 1989 and 1992; winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, 1990; Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Ages 6-8, 1990; winner of the Whitbread Award, 1993 and 1996; awarded Children's Author of the Year by the British Book Awards 1991 and 1994; finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Children's Books, 1998. Winner of the Carnegie Medal,2008; winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, 2006; winner of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, 2002; winner of the Blue Peter 'Book of the Year' and 'Book I Couldn't Put Down', 2003; co-winner of theUKLA Book Award 2015. Winner of the Carnegie Medal, 2008; winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, 2006; winner of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, 2002; winner of the Blue Peter 'Book of the Year' and 'Book I Couldn't Put Down', 2003; co-winner of the UKLA Book Award 2015. Editor of Books for Keeps from 1989-1996 when it won.