Noughts and Crosses has won several awards, including the Children's Book Award. Malorie has also won the WHSmith Mind-Boggling Books Award and the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award as well as being shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her work has appeared on screen and been adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. In 2008 Malorie was honoured with an OBE for her services to Children's Literature.
An extraordinary book, and truly is Malorie Blackman at her best * Guardian * Blackman's emotional intelligence is such that Boys Don't Cry should be read aloud in every secondary school -- Amanda Craig * The Times * Her writing at its best, creating characters and a story which, once read, will not easily go away -- Nick Tucker * Independent * Blackman grapples with contemporary issues without ever letting them overwhelm the story and characterisation. A winner -- Suzi Feay * Financial Times * This is an adroit investigation of family relations, very clearly portrayed -- Toby Clements * Daily Telegraph *