Tim's book awards & nominations:

Te Pukapuka ka Kore e Pānuihia

Finalist - Wright Family Foundation Te Kura Pounamu Award for te reo Māori at the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2024.

Pipi and Pou and the Tentacles of the Deep

Storylines Notable Book 2023.

Pipi and Pou and the Raging Mountain:

Finalist - Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Junior Fiction Award at the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2023.

Rona Moon:

Storylines Notable Te Reo Māori 2021.

Māui - Sun Catcher:

Storylines Notable book 2017.

Hinemoa te toa:

Received two awards at the 2009 LIANZA Children's Book Awards: Te Tohu Pounamu mo te wahanga Kaiwhakamaori and Te Tohu Taurapa mo te whahanga Pukapuka Pikitia.

Haere, Farewell Jack, farewell:

Picture Book Honour Award at the 2006 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults.
Named one of the top New Zealand picture books by Waikato University, 2010.

Taming the Taniwha:

Selected for the White Ravens International Youth Library Catalogue as one of the world's top 250 children's books for 2002.
Named one of the top New Zealand picture books by Waikato University, 2010.

The Wooden Fish:

Storylines Notable book 2000.

Changing lives since 1994