Awards
Fine won the 1989 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising Goggle-Eyes as that year's best children's book by a British subject, and she was one of two highly commended runners up for the same Medal with Bill's New Frock. She also won the once-in-a-lifetime Guardian Prize for Goggle-Eyes and the Smarties Prize in ages category 6–8 years for Bill's New Frock.
Three years later she won the Carnegie Medal again for Flour Babies (Hamilton, 1992), which was also named the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year. The Tulip Touch (Hamilton, 1996) was her second Whitbread winner and her second highly commended for the Carnegie.
Up On Cloud Nine (Doubleday, 2002) was the last highly commended Carnegie runner up, a distinction then used 29 times in 24 years. Fine is one of seven authors to win two Carnegie Medals (1936–2012) and the only author of three Highly Commended books.
- Awards
- 1989 Carnegie Medal in Literature – Goggle-Eyes
- 1990 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize – Goggle-Eyes
- 1990 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, ages 6–8 – Bill's New Frock
- 1990 Children's Author of the Year Award, Publishing News
- 1991 Children's Author of the Year, British Book Awards
- 1992 Carnegie Medal – Flour Babies
- 1993 Whitbread Award, Children's Book – Flour Babies
- 1993 Children's Author of the Year Award, Publishing News
- 1994 Children's Author of the Year, British Book Awards
- 1996 Whitbread Award, Children's Book – The Tulip Touch
- 1998 Prix Sorcières, best children's book translated into French – Journal d'un chat assassin (Diary of a Killer Cat)
- Runners up, nominations, etc
- 1984 Guardian shortlist – The Granny Project
- 1987 Guardian shortlist – Madame Doubtfire
- 1987 Whitbread shortlist – Madame Doubtfire
- 1989 Carnegie, highly commended – Bill's New Frock
- 1993 Carnegie shortlist – The Angel of Nitshill Road
- 1996 Carnegie, highly commended – Tulip Touch
- 2002 Carnegie, highly commended – Up On Cloud Nine
- 2004 shortlist for the Red House Children's Book Award, Younger Readers - The More The Merrier
- 2006 Carnegie shortlist – The Road of Bones
- 2007 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, ages 6–8, second place – Ivan the Terrible
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