Hughes won a second Greenaway (no illustrator has won three) for "Ella's Big Chance" (2003), her own adaptation of Cinderella, set in the 1920s. It was published in the U.S. as "" (Simon & Schuster, 2004). She was also a three-time Greenaway commended runner up: for "Flutes and Cymbals: Poetry for the Young" (1968), a collection compiled by Leonard Clark; for "Helpers" (Bodley Head, 1975), which she wrote and illustrated; and for "The Lion and the Unicorn" (Bodley Head, 1998), which she wrote and illustrated (Highly Commended).