Awards
Posted on July 24, 2021
ACT Notable Book Awards
- Lennie the Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony, Highly Commended, Children’s Book Award 2016
- Trouble in the Surf, illustrated by Briony Stewart, Shortlisted, Children’s Book Award 2020
- Will the Wonderkid: Treasure Hunter of the Australian Outback, Highly Commended, Children’s 2020 Big Press Award, ACT Notable Awards 2022
- Australia’s Wild Weird Wonderful Weather, illustrated by Tania McCartney, Highly Commended, Children’s 2020 Big Press Award, ACT Notable Awards 2022
- Swifty: The Super-fast Parrot, illustrated by Astred Hicks, Highly Commended, Children’s Traditional Publishing Award, MARION ACT Notable Book Awards 2023
Australian Book Designers Association
- Swifty: The Super-fast Parrot, illustrated by Astred Hicks, Longlisted, Best Designed Children’s Non-fiction Book, ABDA Book Design Awards 2023
Australian Book Review
- ‘From Little Things Big Things Grow: Belonging by Jeannie Baker’, Winner, Australian Book Review Reviewing Competition 2005
Canberra Times and Manning Clark House
- ‘Quo Vadis Australia’, Winner, Manning Clark Footnotes to History Competition 2001
Children’s Book Council of Australia
- Lost! A True Tale from the Bush, Shortlisted, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, Book of the Year Awards 2010
- Lennie the Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony, Winner, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2016
- Marvellous Miss May, Queen of the Circus, Notable Book, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2019
- Laurie Copping Award forDistinguished Service to Children’s Literature in the ACT 2019
- Trouble in the Surf, illustrated by Briony Stewart, Notable Book, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2020
- Australia’s Wild, Weird, Wonderful Weather, illustrated by Tania McCartney, Notable Book, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2021
- Will the Wonderkid: Treasure Hunter of the Australian Outback, Notable Book, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2021
International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)
- I’ve Got a Feeling!, Outstanding Books for Young People with a Disability 2011
Museums Australasia Publishing and Design Awards
- Australia’s Wild, Weird, Wonderful Weather, illustrated by Tania McCartney, Children’s Book Award 2021
New South Wales Premier’s History Awards
- Amazing Grace: An Adventure at Sea, Winner, Young People’s History Prize 2012
- Marvellous Miss May, Queen of the Circus, Shortlisted, Young People’s History Prize 2018
- Lennie the Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony, Shortlisted, Young People’s History Prize 2015
Sydney Teachers College
- Distinguished Academic Record, Graduate Diploma in Education
- Cheshire Publishing Prize for History, Graduate Diploma in Education