• Winner 2006, Premier’s Prize,
  Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards;

• Winner 2006, Children’s Books,
  Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards;

• Winner 2007, Community Relations Commission Award,
  New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards;

• Winner 2007, Picture Book of the Year,
  Children’s Book Council of Australia

• Winner 2011, Peter Pan Prize
  for the Swedish translation of The Arrival

• Special Citation 2008, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award

• Winner 2008, Best Comic Book,
  Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize
  for Là où vont nos pères, the French edition of The Arrival

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