[1] In 2002, she published a book called Tadpoles of South-Eastern Australia which won a Whitley Award.
[2] Anstis published a children's book, Frogs and Tadpoles of Australia in 2007.
[3] She submitted her book, Tadpoles and Frogs of Australia as her PhD thesis at Newcastle University in 2012.
[6] She received grants from the Australian Biological Resources Study in 1999 and in 2006-7 and from WWF in 2003.
[1] A genus of West Australian frog, Anstisia, was named in honor of her in 2022.