 For "The God Beneath the Sea" Blishen and Garfield won the 1970 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.There is also his series of autobiographical books, including "A Cack-Handed War" (1972), a story describing his experiences as a conscientious objector, set against the backdrop of the Second World War, and "Roaring Boys" (1955), an honest account of teaching in a London secondary modern school in the 1950s, a book still valuable to understand teaching in a "rough" part of a city.Its sequel, "This Right Soft Lot", was published in 1969.