Novels for young adults

• Cycle Smash (1967)
• Marle (1968)
• Snake River (1975)
• Breaktime (1978)
• Dance on my Grave (1982)
• Now I Know (1987)
• The Toll Bridge (1992)
• Postcards from No Man's Land (1999)
• This Is All: the Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn (2005)

Novels for children

• Seal Secret (1980)
• The Present Takers (1984).

Criticism and Education

• The Reluctant Reader (1969)
• Introducing Books to Children (1973, 1983)
• Booktalk: occasional writing on literature and children (1985)
• The Reading Environment (1991)
• Tell Me: Children, Reading and Talk (1993)
• Reading Talk (2001)

• 1979 Children's Literature Association Award for Literary Criticism
• 1982 Eleanor Farjeon Award for Outstanding Services to Children's Books (shared with wife Nancy)
• 1999 Carnegie Medal for Postcards from No Man's Land
• 2002 Michael J Printz Award for Postcards from No Man's Land
• 2002 Hans Christian Andersen Award in recognition of his distinguished body of writing.
• 2003 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Umeå
• 2008 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Gloucestershire
• 2009 Elected Fellow Royal Society of Literature
• 2010 National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) Award for Lifetime Services to English Education

• Greenaway, Betty. Aidan Chambers: Master Literary Choreographer. The Scarecrow Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8108-5087-3.