i Nagrodę im. Hansa Christiana Andersena. Jej książki – The Haunting, Przemiana, The Great White Man-Eating Shark, The Three-Legged Cat oraz Keeping House doczekały się adaptacji filmowych.
W 1993 została odznaczona Orderem Nowej Zelandii.
Dzieła Powieści Bus Under the Leaves (1975) The Pirate Uncle (1977) The Great Piratical Rumbustification (1981) The Haunting (1982) The Pirates Mixed-Up Voyage (1983) The Changeover (1984; wydanie polskie 2007 Przemiana) The Birthday Burglar (1984) The Tricksters (1986) The Catalogue of the Universe (1986) Aliens in the Family (1986) Memory (1987) The Blood-and-Thunder Adventure on Hurricane Peak (1989) Raging Robots and Unruly Uncles (1990) The Seven Chinese Brothers (1990) Dangerous Spaces (1991) Underrunners (1992) seria Cousins Quartet The Good Fortunes Gang (1993) A Fortunate Name (1993) A Fortune Branches Out (1993) Tangled Fortunes (1994) The Greatest Show Off Earth (1994) Tingleberries, Tuckertubs and Telephones (1995) The Other Side of Silence (1995) Midnight Story (1996) The Five Sisters (1996) Operation Terror (1997) The Horribly Haunted School (1997) Down in the Dump with Dinsmore (1998) A Villain's Night Out (1999) Twenty-four Hours (2000) The Riddle of the Frozen Phantom (2001) Alchemy (2002) The Gargling Gorilla (2003) Maddigan's Fantasia