Martin Waddell won the Smarties Book Prize for "Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?" and "Farmer Duck", which also won the British Book Awards Children's Illustrated Book of the Year. He has also won the Best Books for Babies Award for "Rosie's Babies" and the Kurt Maschler Award for "The Park in the Dark". Patrick Benson won the Kurt Maschler Award for "The Little Boat" and was shortlisted for Smarties Book Prize and Highly Commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal. He was again shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2000 for "The Sea-Thing Child".

Martin Waddell has twice won the Smarties Book Prize - for Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? and Farmer Duck (also Winner of the British Book Awards: Children's Illustrated Book of the Year), as well as the Best Books for Babies Award for Rosie's Babies and the Kurt Maschler Award for The Park in the Dark. Other titles include Who Do You Love?; The Hollyhock Wall; Owl Babies; Night Night, Cuddly Bear; Tom Rabbit; Webster J. Duck; and many stories for older readers. Patrick Benson has illustrated many titles, including Owl Babies, Squeak's Good Idea and his own story Little Penguin. He won the Kurt Maschler Award for The Little Boat (by Kathy Henderson), which was also shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize and Highly Commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and he was again shortlisted for the 2000 Kate Greenaway Medal for The Sea-thing Child, written by Russell Hoban.