Deb's Awards!
the book of wondrous possibilities
2023 Notables The Children's Book Council of Australia Awards
2023 Shortlisted REAL Awards (Kid's Choice Victoria, NT, NSW, ACT)
2023 Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards
BEAR IN SPACE
2021 Notables The Children's Book Council of Australia Awards
2021 Best Book in Translation, Malta National Book Prize
Final Storm
2021 Shortlisted REAL Awards (Kid's Choice Victoria, NT, NSW, ACT)
New City
2023 Shortlisted REAL Awards (Kid's Choice Victoria, NT, NSW, ACT)
2020 Shortlisted REAL Awards (Kid's Choice Victoria, NT, NSW, ACT)
2015 Honour Book YABBA Awards
2015 Shortlisted KOALA Awards
the stupendously spectacular spelling bee
2020 Best Book in Translation, Malta National Book Prize
2019 Shortlisted REAL Awards (Kid's Choice Victoria, NT, NSW, ACT)
2017 Australian Family Therapists Awards
grimsdon
2018 Shortlisted REAL Awards (Kid's Choice Victoria, NT, NSW, ACT)
2017 Shortlisted REAL Awards (Kid's Choice Victoria, NT, NSW, ACT)
2012 Shortlisted REAL Awards (Kid's Choice Victoria, NT, NSW, ACT)
2011 Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards
2011 Most Enthralling Junior Fiction Award, Kids Book Review
2011 Shortlisted Aurealis Awards
2011 Shortlisted REAL Awards (Kids Choice Victoria, NT, NSW, ACT)
2017 Koala Legend
teresa a new australian
2017 WAYRBA (Western Australia Children's Choice Awards)
2017 Best Book in Translation, Malta
2013 Maurice Saxby Award
For Services to Children's Literature
Ghost Club
2013 Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards
2015 Shortlisted REAL Awards (Kid's choice Vic, NSW, ACT, NT)
The Remarkable Secret of Aurelie Bonhoffen
2012 Shortlisted USBBY Outstanding International Book (USA)
2010 Children's Book Council Notable Book
2010 Shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Best Children's Book
Max Remy Superspy
2005, 2007, 2010 KOALA Awards shortlisted Best Series
2007, 2010 YABBA Awards shortlisted Best Series
2008 Angus & Robertson's Top 50 Kids' Books
2007 Shortlisted CBC Children's Choice Awards (USA)
2007 WAYRBA (Western Australia Children's Choice Awards)
2007 CROC Awards
2006 Annual Ellie Awards, (Madison Alabama, USA - Honor Book)
2005 Winner Gold Oppenheim Award, New York: Max Remy Part 1
2004 Australia Council Literary Grant New Work/Developing Writer
2003 Shortlisted Aurealia Awards: Max Remy The Hollywood Mission
2002, 2003 Winner of Read and Write Award by Vocaleyes Narrator of Audio Books