Awards
Awards
A BIT LOST (2010)
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UK
AOI Best of British Illustration Gold Prize 2010 (Childrens Book Category) UK
The Booktrust Best New Illustrators Award UK
Winner of the Cambridgeshire Picturebook of the year 2011 UK
IRE
Winner of the Bisto Childrens Book of the Year 2011Ireland
Winner of the Eilis Dillion Best Debut Book of the Year 2011 Ireland
US
Winner of the Marrion Vannette Ridgway award for best debut picturebook
Netherlands
Winner of the Dutch Picturebook of the Year2012
Ranked #36 in book sales in the Netherlands 2012
Canada
Winner Early Years Niagara Award CANADA
France
Nomination Prix des bébés lecteurs de Nanterre Baby Readers’ Prize 2012 FRANCE
Winner 0-3 category. Library of Manzat Award (Puy de Dôme, Auvergne)
SWITZERLAND
Winner of Prix P’tits Mômes Geneva
JAPAN
Winner of the Orion Shobo picture book of the year 2012
MOE Magazine Prize 2013 Best picturebooks of the year. 5th Prize
INTERNATIONAL
THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION (2024)
Nominated for the Irish Book of the Year 2024 (Childrens Book Senior)
Selected for Notable Social Studies Book winner in the USA #NSSTB2025
Nominated for the British Book Awards 2025. (Best Children's Non-Fiction)
Oh No, GEORGE (2012)
UK/IRE
Nominated for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize
Nominated for the UKLA Awards
Nominated for the Irish Book Awards
Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Kate Greenaway Medal
Nominated for the Waterstones Prize
WINNER of the Junior Magazine Picture Book of the Year
Nominated for the CBI Awards Ireland
Nominated for LoveReading4 kids Reader’s book prize 2013
Nominated for the Coventry Inspiration Book Award
Chosen as a CLPE Power of Reading book for UK schools 2017-18
GERMANY
Nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2-6 category
FRANCE
WINNER of the 2013 ‘Je lis, j’elis‘ 2013 Award for picturebooks
Winner of the 2014 Prix Littéraire de la Citoyenneté
Winner Cronenbourg (Strasbourg) Literary Award. Kindergarten category
SWITZERLAND
Winner Premier Prix Des Bibliothéques de Carouge 2013
0-4 ans
US
Amazon.com’s top 10 picture books of 2012
Winner of 2012 ‘Little Awards for Big Books’ Picture Book category
SWITZERLAND
Nominated for the Carouge Story Book Award
JAPAN
Japan edition: Winner of the Sankei Children's Book Award 2015: (Translation Award awarded to Kisaka Ryo)
SHH! we have a plan! (2014)
UK/IRE
WINNER: Irish Book Award
WINNER: ASSOCIATION OF ILLUSTRATORS 2014 AWARD for Childrens Books
WINNER: Baby & Me Style award 2014
WINNER: ABCD Cover design awards
Longlisted for the Kate Greenaway medal
Shortlisted IBW award
WINNER of the Children's Book Ireland Illustration Honour Award
Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities IBBY
WINNER: Ezra Jack Keats Award
Nominated: Bookreels award (trailer)
WINNER: Red Clover Book award
Junior Library Guild Selection 2019 (for the Spanish version 'SHH, Tenemos un plan'
FRANCE
WINNER under 6 category Le Prix Des Incorruptibles (415,000 children's votes)
WINNER "Je lis, j’élis, catégorie moyenne
CHINA
WINNER: 2015 Chen Bochui Award Shanghai
GOODNIGHT EVERYONE (2016)
WINNER 2017 Childrens Books Ireland Book of the year award
Winner of the Childrens Books Ireland best illustrated book of the year
Parents Magazine Best Book of the Year
Junior Library Guild Selection
Nominated Kate Greenaway Award 2016
Nominated Irish Book Award 2016
Honoured: World Illustration Awards
Carnegie Library Best books for babies 2022 (US)
Bank Street College of Education NYC 'Mejor Libro Infantil' Selection 2023
DON'T WORRY, LITTLE CRAB (2019)
Nominated Prix Les Incorruptibles 2021
Nominated Oscar's Book Prize
Nominated Irish Book awards 2019
Nominated Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award 2020
Shortlisted: Foyle's Books of the Year
WINNER: Indy Book Award 2020 - Picture book winner
Nominated 'Premio nazionale Nati per Leggere' Finalista per la sezione 18-36 mesi
The Little Angel Theatre puppet production of Dont Worry Little Crab by Kim Scopes and Ollie Smart (folded feather) won an Offie award
Junior Library Guild
Gold standard selection award
MAYBE... (2021)
Winner: Oscars book prize 2022 UK
Winner: Libbylit Belgium
Early years category.
Bishops Stortford Award
2nd Prize
Kentucky Bluegrass Award
Preschool category nominated
World Illustration Awards long listed
Irish Book Awards Short listed
Prix des libraries du Quebec shortlisted
Parent Magazine Best Books of the Year 2021
Junior Library Guild
Gold standard selection
Nominated for the Society of Illustrators picture book (Queens Knickers) prize.
En Retiro award (Spain)
Bernard Versele Award category age 0-3 voted by 39,000 children (Belgium)
Well Done, Mummy Penguin
An Post Irish Book awards nomination
ABCD Book cover award nomination
Junior Library Guild
Gold standard selection
Nominated for the Yoto Carnegie award for illustration 2023
'Pinguino amatxo onena da' is selected for the JUUL 2024 by a jury of 15,000 children in País Vasco, the Basque country in Spain
OTHER
Bookshop.org Indie champion of the year award nomination
ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL PROJECT
Winner of the World Illustration Award for public realm 2015
Featured in 2016 CREATIVE REVIEW ANNUAL as best design of the year.
Featured on Creative Review cover
Hat Monkey IOS app (2014)
USA
Nominated: CYBILS award
Honoured: World Illustration Awards
Selected: Geneva Fim Festival digital media selection