 Her timing was good, for a bequest by Colin Mears had provided a £5,000 cash prize to supplement the medal beginning that year.She won a second Smarties Prize in 2002 for "That Pesky Rat", which was commended for the Greenaway too.In the same year she wrote her first children's novel, "Utterly Me, Clarice Bean", one of 39 books nominated by the librarians for the Carnegie Medal.