Awards and Honours
Chambers won two major annual book awards for Postcards from No Man's Land, published by Bodley Head in 1999, one being the Carnegie Medal in Literature from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. The other was the Michael L. Printz Award for specifically young-adult literature, recognising the first U.S. edition published three years later.
He has received several more general awards and honours.
- 1979 Children's Literature Association Award for Literary Criticism
- 1982 Eleanor Farjeon Award for Outstanding Services to Children's Books (shared with wife Nancy)
- 2002 Hans Christian Andersen Award in recognition of his distinguished body of writing.
- 2003 Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Umeå
- 2008 Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Gloucestershire
- 2009 Elected Fellow Royal Society of Literature
- 2010 National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) Award for Lifetime Services to English Education
- 2011 Honorary Doctorate of Literature from Oxford Brookes University
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