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

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