Awards
Posted on October 21, 2024
ACT Notable Book Awards

- Lennie the Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony, published by NLA, Highly Commended, Children’s Book Award 2016
- Trouble in the Surf, illustrated by Briony Stewart and published by NLA, Shortlisted, Children’s Book Award 2020
- Will the Wonderkid: Treasure Hunter of the Australian Outback, published by NLA, Highly Commended, Children’s 2020 Big Press Award, ACT Notable Awards 2022
- Australia’s Wild Weird Wonderful Weather, illustrated by Tania McCartney and published by NLA, Highly Commended, Children’s 2020 Big Press Award, ACT Notable Awards 2022
- Swifty: The Super-fast Parrot, illustrated by Astred Hicks and
published by CSIRO, 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 and published by CSIRO, 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 Essay Competition 2001

Children’s Book Council of Australia

- Lost! A True Tale from the Bush, published by NLA, Shortlisted, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, Book of the Year Awards 2010
- Lennie the Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony, published by NLA, Winner, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books, CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2016
- Marvellous Miss May, Queen of the Circus, published by NLA, Notable Book, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2019
- Laurie Copping Award for Distinguished Service to Children’s Literature in the ACT 2019
- Trouble in the Surf, illustrated by Briony Stewart and published by NLA, Notable Book, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2020
- Australia’s Wild, Weird, Wonderful Weather, illustrated by Tania McCartney and published by NLA, Notable Book, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2021
- Will the Wonderkid: Treasure Hunter of the Australian Outback,
published by NLA, Notable Book, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2021 - Sensational Australian Animals, published by CSIRO, Notable Book, Eve Pownall Award for Information Books 2025
International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)
- I’ve Got a Feeling!, illustrated by Stephanie Owen Reeder and published by NLA, 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 and published by NLA, Children’s Book Award 2021

New South Wales Premier’s History Awards

- Amazing Grace: An Adventure at Sea, published by NLA, Winner, Young People’s History Prize 2012
- Marvellous Miss May, Queen of the Circus, published by NLA, Shortlisted, Young People’s History Prize 2018
- Lennie the Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony, published by NLA, 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
Whitley Commendation Award
- Sensational Australian Animals, illustrated by Cher Hart and published by CSIRO, Winner, Children’s Investigative Zoology, Whitley Book Awards, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2024
