Awards & Winners

Helen Cresswell

Date of Birth 11-July-1934
Place of Birth Nottingham
(England, United Kingdom, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Novelist, Writer, Screenwriter
Helen Cresswell was an English television scriptwriter and author of more than 100 children's books, best known for comedy and supernatural fiction. Her most popular book series, Lizzie Dripping and The Bagthorpe Saga, were also the bases for television series. Cresswell's TV work included adaptation of her own books for television movies and series: Lizzie Dripping, The Secret World of Polly Flint, and Moondial. Some others were The Haunted School, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Famous Five, and The Demon Headmaster.

Awards by Helen Cresswell

Check all the awards nominated and won by Helen Cresswell.

1992


Nominations 1992 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Children's Programme - Fiction or Entertainment Five Children and It

1989


Phoenix Award
Honored for : The Nightwatchmen