has won the "Certificate of Excellence" from Parenting,[citation needed] "The Parents Choice Award" and "Best Children's Book Honour Award" from Waldenbooks,[citation needed] and has been listed as "One of the Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year" from The New York Times.
and Gregory Cool, which Binch hopes will help children in different countries "identify with the similarities between them",[18] and has been a guest of the Trinidad and Tobago National Library and Information System.
[19] Binch worked with West Indian families in order to create the illustrations for Amazing Grace and its sequels.
[20] The author Mary Hoffman has said part of the success of the books about Grace "comes from Caroline Binch’s beautiful naturalistic pictures.
She has a sparkling fluid technique, perfect tonal values, brilliantly consistent characterisation, scrupulous attention to detail" leading to a "resulting realism".