2025
- Guest judge, Shirley Hughes Sketchbook Award
- Shortlisted for the Inclusive Books For Children Award (UK)
- Shortlisted for Oscar’s Book Prize (UK)
- Head of HarperCollins Author Academy
2024
- Guest judge, Shirley Hughes Sketchbook Award
- Longlisted for the Carnegie awards, UK
- Shortlisted for the Inclusive Books For Children Award (UK)
- Longlisted for the Derby Childrens picture Book Award (UK)
2023
- Nominated, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. (ALMA)
2022
- Made Patron of CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education)
- Illustrator of CLiPPA award winner, “Stars With Flaming Tales”
- Nominated for the Astrid Lingren Memorial Award (ALMA)
- Made Patron of the Jericho Prize (UK)
2021
- Publisher Kumusha Books, Harper Collins Children’s Books (UK) first imprint
2020
- Nominated, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
- Winner of STEAM AWARD for Early Years Picturebooks 2020
- World Book Day Steering Committee
- Judge, Wales Book of the Year 2020
- Bank Street College (USA) – 20 best books of the Year
- Launched 17Promises magazine in partnership with United Nations, Govt of Zimbabwe
2019
- Nominated- Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Awards 2019 (UK)
- Mentor, Pathways into Publishing
- Included in ‘Breaking New Ground’ publication as one of the most influential black authors/illustrators in the UK
- Honourable Mention, Moveable Books Society Meggendorfer Prize for Best Paper Engineering (US)
2017
- Owner & publisher, Alanna Max
2015
- Awarded one of the 50 best books on diversity in the last 50 years by the Guardian Newspaper
- Centre for Literature in Primary Education core list (Early Years) UK
- African American Literature Bookclub (AALB) Top 154 Recommended African-American Children’s Books
2014
- Launched Chicken Newspaper for Children. A quarterly printed tabloid-sized publication for primary school children.
1994
- First books for Children published
1984
- Silver Medal for illustration- Brno Biennale, probably the youngest person ever to win.