Awards
- 1946 in the inaugural Sydney Morning Herald-sponsored writers' competition, she won the Best Novel award for The Harp in the South (which would not be published, however, until 1948)
- 1954 Catholic Book Club Choice selected Serpent's Delight
- 1961 in the inaugural Commonwealth Television Play Competition run by the Lew Grade Organisation the British award for television play won for No Decision, with D'Arcy Niland
- 1962 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Children's Book of the Year Award, highly commended for The Hole in the Hill
- 1975 CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award, highly commended for Callie's Castle
- 1977 Miles Franklin Award for Swords and Crowns and Rings
- 1977 National Book Council highly commended for Swords and Crowns and Rings
- 1979 CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award, highly commended for Come Danger, Come Darkness
- 1981 CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award won the Playing Beatie Bow
- 1981 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Ethel Turner Prize for young people's literature won for When the Wind Changed
- 1982 Parents' Choice Award for Literature won for Playing Beatie Bow, awarded by the Parents' Choice Foundation
- 1982 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Playing Beatie Bow
- 1982 International Board on Books for Young People (Australia) won the Honour Diploma for Playing Beatie Bow
- 1982 Guardian Fiction Prize (UK) runner up for Playing Beatie Bow
- 1986 Young Australians' Best Book Award for a picture book for When the Wind Changed (illustrated by Deborah Niland)
- 1987 Member of the Order of Australia (AM) bestowed for services to literature
- 1992 The Age Book of the Year, Non-Fiction Award won for A Fence around the Cuckoo
- 1992 Colin Roderick Award won for A Fence around the Cuckoo, presented with the H.T. Priestley Meda(Townsville Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award)
- 1993 Tilly Aston Award for Braille Book of the Year won for A Fence around the Cuckoo
- 1993 Talking Book of the Year Award (Royal Blind Society) won for A Fence around the Cuckoo
- 1993 Talking Book of the Year Award (Royal Blind Society) won for Fishing in the Styx
- 1993 Awarded the Lloyd O'Neil Magpie Award for services to the Australian book industry
- 1994 Canberra's Own Outstanding List (CBCA COOL Award) won for Playing Beatie Bow
- 1994 Awarded Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of New South Wales
- 1994 Fellowship of Australian Writers Christina Stead Award won for Home Before Dark
- 1996 Bilby Award, Young Reader Award won for When the Wind Changed (illustrated by Deborah Niland)
- 2004 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards won the Special Award
- 2006 listed in the Bulletin's 100 most influential Australians
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