Prizes and Awards

1985
MELA D'ORO (Golden Apple), Bratislava Biennial Festival  BIB for "Rose Weiss".
PREMIO PER LA PACE (Peace Award) "Gustav Heinemann", assigned by Lander di Essen for "Rose Weiss".
PREMIO "DAS ROTE TUCH" of the S.P.D. Charlottenburg-Berlin for "Rose Weiss".

1986
MILDRED L.BATCHELDER AWARD  for "Rose Weiss".
SILVER MEDAL from the Society of Illustrators, New York.

1988
KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL, London, for "Pinocchio's Adventures".

1989
ZILVEREN PENSEEL , CPNB Amsterdam-Utrect for "Pinocchio’s Adventures".

1990

STADT AMELN-PREIS  for the book"Pinocchio’s Adventures".
KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL, London, for  "A Christmas Carol".
TOTEM for the Salon du Livre de Jenuesse, Montreuil for " A Christmas Carol"

1991

MENTION  in the  Book Fair in Bologna for "A Christmas Carol".
MELA D'ORO Bratislava Biennial Festival  BIB for "A Christmas Carol". "Teenage choice" AWARD at Salon du Livre, Geneve for "Pinocchio’s Adventures".
 
1992

ANDERSEN PRIZE of the magazine Andersen"Best Author".

1997

PREMIO NAZIONALE ALPI APUANE MASSA (International Prize of the Alps, Massa, Tuscany) for the Picture.

1999

PREMIO LUCCA COMICS for the Picture.

2001

ANDERSEN PRIZE of the magazine for "Cinderella, book of the year". FIESOLE PRIZE for the work "Narrator Draftsman".

2002

CERTIFIED OF EXCELLENCE  by "New York Times" for the best illustrated book of the year "The Last Resort".
“GIOTTO BAMBINO" PRIZE from Vicchio del Mugello for childhood literature
"LIBER" PRIZE of the magazine Liber, for "the Last Resort".

 2003
ANDERSEN PRIZE of the magazine Andersen as "Best Author".
MENTION, Fair Book of Bologna.
"ESELSOHR-ODER GESTALTER1SH" Charlottenburg-Berlin for "Erika Geshichte".

2004

1° AWARD FOR THE BEST CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED BOOK of the year non fiction per Erika's Story della English Association.
PRIZE "DAS ROTE TUCH" del S.P.D assigned for "Erika Geshichte"Charlottenburg-Berlin.
FOREIGN PICTURE BOOK Japan School Library Association per "Erika's Story".

2008

"HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN" PRIZE of the IBBY in Copenaghen, for the contribution for the childhood literature.
FIORINO D'ORO , "Author Draftsman".

2010

FRIGIMELICA PRIZE Spilimbergo.

2011

"LO STRANIERO" PRIZE for the cultural magazine"Lo Straniero" in S.Arcangelo dei Teatri di Romagna.
FIORINO D'ORO "UNA VITA PREMIATA" assigend by the Bagno a Ripoli district.

2013

 XIV PREMI LLIBRETER 2013 for the best illustrated comic book assiged for r "La Caputxeta Vermella" from the Librai Liberi Catalani-Barcellona.
"Il Paese dei Balocchi" PRIZE for the creatività of the Associazione Pinocchio di Carlo Lorenzini, Florence.

2014
Prix Sorciéres 2014 décernés par l'Association des Bibliothécaures de France et l'Association des Librairies Spécialisèes Jeunesse
Categorie Albums La Petite  Fille en rouge - Aaron Frish et  ROBERTO INNOCENTI - trad. Chaterine Gilbert Gallimard