Awards
- Visual Arts Board award for children's book illustration for Storm Boy
- 1980 River Murray Mary was commended in the Children's Book of the Year awards
- 1980 Ditmar Australian Fiction Award for Australian Gnomes
- 1986 Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature illustration
- 1989 Dromkeen Medal
- 2005 honorary doctorate of arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
- 2007 made a member of the Order of Australia for "service to literature as an illustrator and author of children's books, to art design and education, and as a supporter of health care organisations."
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