Italian Premier Grafico Award, The Wind Between the Stars, 1976[37] Dutch Silver Pencil Award, The Boy Who Was Followed Home, 1977[37] New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, Best Young Adult Novel, 2003, Alchemy[38] Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement (2005)[39] Phoenix Award, 2005, The Catalogue of the Universe (1985)[4] Phoenix Award runner-up (Honor Book), 2006, The Tricksters[32] Sir Julius Vogel Award, 2006, for services to New Zealand science fiction and fantasy[40] Phoenix Award, 2007, Memory[32] New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, Children's Book of the Year, 2011, The Moon and Farmer McPhee—picture book written by Mahy and illustrated by David Elliot[41]