McIntyre was awarded the Sheffield Children's Book award for Best Picture Book and Overall Winner for her illustrations in the book Morris the Mankiest Monster in 2010,[2] which also won the Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award 2010.[3] Her book Oliver and the Seawigs with Philip Reeve won the UKLA Book Award in 2015 in the age 7–11 category [4]
and their Pugs of the Frozen North won the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award in 2016.[5] She also won the Leeds Graphic Novel Award 2011 for Vern and Lettuce,[6] which ran originally as a weekly comic strip in The DFC and in The Guardian.[7] Her comic strip Shark & Unicorn ran for three years in The Funday Times section of The Sunday Times newspaper.[8]
Her projects include designing Monsterville at Discover Children's Story Centre[9] in Stratford, London and participation in its online StoryCloud project.[10] She curated The Comics Big-Top of Awesome at the 2012 Pop Up Festival[11] in London.
In 2015 she began spearheading the #Pictures Mean Business campaign, demanding greater prominence and credit for book illustrators.[12] For her campaign efforts, The Bookseller listed her as one of their 2016 Rising Stars.[13]
She is represented by Jodie Hodges at United Agents in London.[14]
The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories (illustrator) with Claire Barker, Ayesha Braganza, Lucy Farfort, Kieran Larwood, Rashmi Sirdeshpande, Ingrid Persaud, Emma Carroll, Ann Jungman, Reba Khatun, Lou Kuenzler, Michael Mann, Kate Saunders, Natasha Farrant, Aisha Bushby, Pip Jones, Martyn Ford, Hannah Lee (2022) UK: Faber Childrens
