Noughts and Crosses has won several awards, including the Children's Book Award. Malorie has also won the WH Smith 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.
Impossible to put down Sunday Telegraph Gripping tale Independent on Sunday An exciting and ambitious story ... Behind the fast-moving adventure and the gadgets and gizmos of the 21st century, however, lies a moral tale which successfully raises important issues about conscience, society and human behaviour TES Gets off to an exciting start and the tension never lets up Newcastle upon Tyne Evening Chronicle