Awards
2024 Nomination ALMA-award 2025
2024 The Johannes Vermeer Award, Dutch state prize for the arts
2024 Bigger than a dream shortlist Premio Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi, Italy
2024 We bakken een dierentuin (We bake a zoo) picturebook top 10 2025, Netherlands
2023 Silverpencil Schildpad en ik, Netherlands
2023 Nomination ALMA-award 2024
2023 Nomination Shortlist de Boon 2023 Schildpad en ik (Tortoise and me) Belgium
2022 Nomination de Boon 2023 Schildpad en ik (Tortoise and me) Belgium
2022 Nomination ALMA-award 2023
2022 Nati per Leggere (Born to read Award) Alla ska sova (Tutto dormira), Italy
2021 Nomination ALMA-award 2022
2020 Vlag en wimpel penseeljury Alles gaat slapen
2020 Nomination ALMA-award 2021
2020 IBBY-iRead Outstanding Reading Promotor Award 2020
2019 Nomination IBBY-iRead Outstanding Reading Promotor Award 2020
2019 Nomination ALMA Award 2020
2019 Spelen tot het donker wordt picturebook-top 10, 2020, Netherlands
2018 Boekenpauw for The island of happiness, Belgium
2018 Silverpencil for The island of happiness, the Netherlands
2018 Nomination Astrid Lindgren memorial Award 2019
2018 Stipendium Solkatten for bookprojects with refugees
2016 Astrid Lindgrens Världs Stipendium 2016
2016 The red bird, best translated book in Iran, Kanoon Institute
2016 Nomination Astrid Lindgren memorial Award 2017
2015 Nomination GEKKO for App Fabians feest
2015 Nomination Astrid Lindgren memorial Award 2016
2015 Nomination Hans Christian Andersen Award 2016, shortlist
2014 DUDO 2014, Bigger than a dream Konrad Duden Schule, Germany
2014 White Raven, Germany, Bigger than a dream
2014 Bigger than a dream, Prize of the public 2014, Belgium.
2014 Bigger than a dream, Boekenleeuw 2014, Belgium.
2014 Bigger than a dream empfehlungsliste Katholischen Kinder-und Jugendbuchpreis
2014 Nomination Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2015
2013 Nomination Hans Christian Andersen Award 2014 and Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2014
2013 Löfska Cultural Prize, Sweden
2012 Nomination Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2013
2011 Golden Plaquette BIB Bratislava for Wat niemand had verwacht
2011 Nomination Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2012
2010 Nomination longlist Golden Owl, Belgium, Wat niemand had verwacht
2010 Nomination Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2011
2009 Nomination Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2010
2007 Peter Pan Silverstar for Pikkuhenki, Sweden
2007 Nomination Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis Pikko, die hexe
2006 Die besten sieben, july 2006, Duitsland
2006 Golden paintbrush for the drawings in Pikkuhenki
2004 Emil-prize from Smålandsakademien for the designs for the Astrid Lindgren-scenery on Junibacken en the picturebooks with Astrid Lindgren
2004 Svensk bokkonst best designed book-prize for Sunnanäng in Sweden
2003 Stipendium from Konstnärsnämnden in Sweden
2002 Kinderboekwinkelprijs (Prize of the Childrens bookshops) for Jij bent de liefste with Hans & Monique Hagen.
2002 ‘Glimworm-prize’ ,Maastricht(NL) for Jij bent de liefste
2002 Auswahlliste Rattenfanger-literaturpreis Helden auf socken
2002 Pluim van de maand for Jij bent de liefste
1997 De Lidman-prize for the Astrid Lindgren storytrain and other scenery at Junibacken.
1997 List of honour IBBY, Holland, illustrations in Helden op sokken by Annie Makkink
1996 Nomination NPS-culture-prize
1996 Eervolle vermelding, ‘Stockholmer of the year’ for the Astrid Lindgren scenery at Junibacken.
1996 De zilveren griffel voor de tekst van Klein verhaal over liefde’
1995 Vlag en Wimpel voor de illustraties in In Schemerland
1992 Prize for the best bookcover, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1991 Stipendium van Författarfonden, Zweden
1991 Stipendium van Författarfonden (Fonds voor schrijvers)
1990 Pluim van de maand for Misschien een olifant
1989 Stipendium van Författarfonden (Fonds voor schrijvers) Zweden