Awards
McCaughrean has won several annual book awards. For A Pack of Lies (Oxford, 1988), a collection of historical stories in a frame narrative, she won the two most prestigious British children's book awards. The Carnegie Medal conferred by the Library Association recognised the year's best children's book by a British subject. The Guardian Prize is similar but once-in-a-lifetime, and judged by a panel of British children's writers.
- 1987 Whitbread Children's Book Award for A Little Lower Than the Angels
- 1988 Carnegie Medal in Literature for A Pack of Lies
- 1989 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for A Pack of Lies
- 1994 Whitbread Children's Book Award for Gold Dust
- 2000 Blue Peter Book of the Year, the inaugural Blue Peter Book Award, for The Pilgrim's Progress retold
- 2001 Blue Peter "Best Book to Keep Forever" for The Kite Rider
- 2004 Whitbread Children's Book Award for Not the End of the World
- 2008 Michael L. Printz Award (U.S., for young-adult book) for The White Darkness
Stop the Train (Oxford, 2001) was "Highly Commended" for the Carnegie Medal. From 1988 to 2011, McCaughrean has six times made the Carnegie shortlist that typically comprises eight books.
McCaughrean was elected an Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University in 2006. She was elected a Fellow of the English Association in 2010 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010.
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