Adaptations of Bill’s New Frock and Goggle-Eyes have been screened by the BBC and her novel Madame Doubtfire was adapted for film under the title Mrs Doubtfire. In 1998, she was the UK nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 1990 and again in 1993 she was voted Publishing News’ Children’s Author of the Year. Among her many other prizes are the Smarties Prize for Bill’s New Frock, a second Whitbread Award for The Tulip Touch, a silver Nestle prize for Ivan the Terrible, and many other regional and foreign awards. She won the Carnegie Medal again for Flour Babies, which also won the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year Award. Her novel Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize as well as Britain’s most coveted award for children’s literature, the Carnegie Medal.

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