Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Fiction with a nine to eleven-year-old target audience. Both cartoon adaptations were popular and critically-acclaimed with their respective networks. The CITV series won the Silver Spire Award for Best Children's Program at the Golden Gate Awards, the Pulcinella Award for Best Series for Children from Cartoons on the Bay, and Best Children's Series at the British Animation Awards, whereas the NickToons series won Best Children's Series at the Broadcast Awards. Both were nominated for a Best Children's Series BAFTA.
