de Lint has received many awards, including the 2000 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection for "Moonlight and Vines", the Ontario Library Association's White Pine Award, as well as the Great Lakes Great Books Award for his young adult novel "The Blue Girl" (Viking, 2004). His novel "Widdershins" (Tor, 2006) won first place, Amazon.com Editors' Picks: Top 10 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2006. In 1988 he won Canadian SF/Fantasy Award, the Casper, now known as the Aurora for his novel "Jack, the Giant-killer" (Ace 1987). His 1984 urban fantasy novel, "Moonheart", was a best-selling trade paperback for Tor's Orb line. It has been described as a thriller, detective mystery, and otherworld mythic fantasy all in one.