20th International Brothers Grimm Award for Research into Children’s Literature (2025)
International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Honorary Fellowship (2025)
Presentation at the 27th Biennial IRSCL Congress in Salamanca, 25.06.2025:
Princeton University Library Research Visiting Fellowship Grant (2008/9)
The Children’s Literature Association Book Award for Comparative Children’s Literature (2007)
Prize for Innovative Teaching at Leuphana University Lüneburg (2008 and 2011)
The International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Book Award for Kinderliterarische Komparatistik (2001)
One-year stipend as an author of children’s literature from the “Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung” (1988)
