 "A Kind of Wild Justice" (1978), "Running Scared" (1986), and "Little Soldier" (1999) were commended runners up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book.The first two have been reissued by OUP in their Children's Modern Classics series, the third re-issued in a 15th anniversary edition.Ashley's TV drama "Dodgem" (based on his own novel) won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment programme (BBC) in 1993.