Winner of the Young Quills Award for Historical Fiction, 2012. Winner of the Heidelberg Leander Prize, 2005; shortlisted for Ottakars Children's Book Prize. Illustrator of the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story with Pictures, 2011; illustrator of the Blue Peter Book Award for Most Fun Story with Pictures, 2010; illustrator of the winner of the Portsmouth Book Award, 2010. Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Children's Literature at NewcastleUniversity. She has advised on and contributed to many children's literature broadcasts, programmes, films and other projects, including for the V&A Museum, British Library and British Council. In 2013 she wonthe International Brothers Grimm Award for an outstanding body of research into children's literature. She is a trustee of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children's Books in Newcastle and was a founder-member of the UK Children's Laureate. Co-winner of the Royal Society's Rhône-Poulenc Young People's Prize for Science Books,