Indian Princesses are collections of short stories based around Indian legends. Nine other short stories were collected as The Magic Orange Tree and Other Stories. Grandpa Chatterji is a series for younger children, named after its first book, which was adapted for television in 1997. Other books in the series are Grandpa Chatterji's Third Eye and Grandpa's Indian Summer. The first book made the Smarties Prize shortlist for reader ages 6–8. Jamila Gavin has also written The Robber Baron's Daughter, Forbidden Memories, I Want to be An Angel, Kamla and Kate, Someone's Watching, Someone's Waiting, The Hideaway and The Wormholers. Works The Magic Orange Tree and other stories (1979) Three Indian Princesses (1987) The Singing Bowls (1989) See No Evil (2008) Grandpa Chatterji (1993) Surya trilogy The Wheel of Surya (Methuen, 1992) The Eye of the Horse (Methuen, 1994) The Track of the Wind (Mammoth, 1997) Grandpa's Indian Summer (1995) The Wormholers (1996) The Girl Who Rode on a Lion The Temple by the Sea The Lake of Stars Our Favorite Stories (1997) The Monkey in the Stars, self-adapted as a play for children, Monkeys in the Stars (2001) Coram Boy (2000) Grandpa Chatterji's Third Eye (2006) Fine Feathered Friend (1996) Three Indian Goddesses (2001) Star Child On Clark Street Danger By Moonlight (2002) Out of India: Walking on My Hands Out of India: An Anglo Indian Childhood (1997) The Whistling Monster Celebration Stories, Coming Home An Interview With Jamila Gavin From Out of the Shadows The Blood Stone (2003) The Robber Baron's Daughter Deadly Friend (1994) I Want to be An Angel (1990) Forbidden Memories Kamla and Kate (1983) Kamla and Kate Again Someone's Watching, Someone's Waiting The Hideaway (1987) Double Dare Storyworlds (Heinemann, 1996), illustrated by Rhian Nest James Grandma's Surprise The Mango Tree Presents Who Did It? Digital Dan Ali and the Robots (1986) Stories From the Hindu World (1986) The Bow of Shiva The Turning Point Alexander the Greatest (Walker, 2009), illustrated by Sumito Sakakibara Fox Derka Derb Alexander the Great: Man, Myth, or Monster? (Walker, 2012), illustrated by David Parkins The Paradise Carpet Awards and honours On 15 July 2014, she was announced as a finalist for the Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015. Shortlisted for Richard Imison Memorial Award in 2001 2000, Winner of Whitbread Children's Book Award (Costa Book Awards,) 1997, Guardian