Early in the 1990s Denton illustrated three Kingfisher collections of retellings by Ann Pilling, which have been reissued.
The Children's Literature Association named Would They Love a Lion? (Kingfisher, 1995), which Denton both wrote and illustrated, as an Honor Winner of the 2015 Phoenix Picture Book Award, which annually recognises a picture book with lasting value that did not win a major award 20 years earlier.