Awards
Crossley-Holland garnered the 1985 Carnegie Medal and 2007 "Anniversary Top Ten" recognition from the British librarians for Storm (Heinemann, 1984).
For Arthur: The Seeing Stone he won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime award judged by a panel of British children's writers and the Tir na n-Og Award from the Welsh Books Council. The two annual awards for young people's books recognise one fiction published in the U.K., written by an author who has not yet won it, and the best English-language book with "authentic Welsh background". The Seeing Stone was also bronze runner up for the Smarties Prize in ages category 9–11 years and it made the 2000 Whitbread Awards shortlist.
Gatty's Tale was one of seven books on the 2008 Carnegie shortlist.
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