John Broadley's first children’s book, While You’re Sleeping, written by Mick Jackson, was a New York Times Children’s Book of the Year winner, a finalist in the Klaus Flugge Prize and longlisted for the Carnegie Prize for Illustration. The follow up, We’re Going Places was one of Observer’s Picture Books of the Year. Cooking Simply and Well for One or Many, written by Jeremy Lee and illustrated by John was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year.