Awards and Honors
Briggs has won numerous awards.
- 1966 Kate Greenaway Medal, for The Mother Goose Treasury
- 1973 Kate Greenaway Medal, for Father Christmas
- 1977 Francis Williams Award for Illustration (Victoria and Albert Museum), for Father Christmas
- 1979 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (U.S.), for The Snowman
- 1979 Silver Pen Award (Netherlands)
- 1982 Children's Rights Workshop Other Award
- 1982 Francis Williams Award for Illustration, for The Snowman
- 1992 Kurt Maschler Award, for The Man
- 1992 Children's Author of the Year, British Book Awards
- 1998 Illustrated Book of the Year, British Book Awards, for Ethel and Ernest
Fee Fi Fo Fum (1964) and The Snowman (1978) were Commended and Highly Commended runners up for the Greenaway Medal.
Ug was silver runner up for the 2001 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.
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