literary award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author.
Organizations
Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Ma ...
that annually recognises "distinguished illustration in a book for children". It is conferred upon the illustrator by the
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, since 2017 branded CILIP: The library and information association (pronounced ), is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the U ...
(CILIP) which inherited it from the Library Association.
The Medal is named after the 19th-century English illustrator of children's books
Kate Greenaway
Catherine Greenaway (17 March 18466 November 1901) was an English Victorian artist and writer, known for her
children's book illustrations. She received her education in graphic design and art between 1858 and 1871 from the Finsbury School of ...
(1846–1901). It was established in 1955 and inaugurated next year for 1955 publications, but no work was considered suitable. The first Medal was awarded in 1957 to
Edward Ardizzone
Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, (16 October 1900 – 8 November 1979), who sometimes signed his work "DIZ", was an English painter, print-maker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. For ''Tim All ...
for ''Tim All Alone'' (Oxford, 1956), which he also wrote. That first Medal was dated 1956. Only since 2007 the Medal is dated by its presentation during the year following publication. The Greenaway is a companion to the Carnegie Medal which recognises one outstanding work of writing for children and young adults (conferred upon the author).
Nominated books must be first published in the U.K. during the preceding school year (September to August), with English-language text if any.
The award by CILIP is a gold Medal and £500 worth of books donated to the illustrator's chosen library. Since 2000 there is also a £5000 cash prize from a bequest by the children's book collector Colin Mears.
Rules
Library and information professionals (
CILIP
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, since 2017 branded CILIP: The library and information association (pronounced ), is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers in the ...
) nominate books in September and October, after the close of the publication year. A panel of 12 children's librarians in CILIP's youth interest group (YLG) judges both the Carnegie and Greenaway books.
Currently the shortlist is announced in March and the winner in June, between nine and 21 months after first U.K. publication.
Candidates must be published in the U.K. during the preceding year (September to August). They must be published for young people, and published in the U.K. originally or within three months in case of co-publication. English must be the language of any text, or one of dual languages.
"All categories of illustrated books for children and young people are eligible."
CILIP specifies numerous points of artistic style, format, and visual experience, and also "synergy of illustration and text" that should be considered "where applicable". Furthermore, "The whole work should provide pleasure from a stimulating and satisfying visual experience which leaves a lasting impression. Illustrated work needs to be considered primarily in terms of its graphic elements, and where text exists particular attention should be paid to the synergy between the two."
Winners
Through 2021 there have been 65 Greenaway Medals awarded in 66 years, covering 1955 to 2020 publications approximately. No eligible book published in 1955 or 1958 was considered suitable.
From 2007 the medals are dated by the year of presentation; previously by the calendar year of British publication, which then defined the eligible works.
::* named to the 50th Anniversary Top Ten in 2007.
Winners of multiple awards
Only one illustrator,
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell ( ) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the ''Observer''. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' ann ...
, has won three Greenaway Medals. Fourteen other illustrators have won two of the 64 Greenaway Medals awarded through 2021. The first winner of two Medals was
John Burningham
John Burningham (27 April 1936 – 4 January 2019) was an English author and illustrator of children's books, especially picture books for young children. He lived in north London with his wife Helen Oxenbury, another illustrator. His last publis ...
, 1963 and 1970. The most recent is
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric.
Early life and education
Born in Woodford, Essex, England, Smith was the son of merchant Robert Smith (1739–1827) and Maria Olier (1750–1801), ...
in 2018 and 2021.
Only ''
A Monster Calls
''A Monster Calls'' is a low fantasy novel written for young adults by Patrick Ness (from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd) illustrated by Jim Kay and published by Walker in 2011. Set in present-day England, it features a boy who struggles ...
'' (Walker Books, 2011), by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay, has won both the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for writing and illustration (2012).
In 2014, ''This Is Not My Hat'' by
Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen (born November 29, 1981) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing the 2012 ...
won both the Greenaway Medal and the American
Caldecott Medal
The Randolph Caldecott Medal, frequently shortened to just the Caldecott, annually recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It is awarded to the illustrator by the Association for Library Service ...
, which recognises a
picture book
A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. The images ...
illustrated by a U.S. citizen or resident. This is the first time the same book has won both medals."Historic Kate Greenaway Medal win for Jon Klassen's This is Not My Hat" Walker Books (walker.co.uk). 23 June 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-29. The recently common practice of co-publication makes a double win possible. Indeed, ''This Is Not My Hat'' was released in Britain and America on the same day, 9 October 2012, by
Walker Books
Walker Books is a British publisher of children's books, founded in 1978 by Sebastian Walker, Amelia Edwards, and Wendy Boase.
In 1991, the success of Walker Books' ''Where's Wally?'' series enabled the company to expand into the American ma ...
and its American subsidiary
Candlewick Press
Candlewick Press, established in 1992 and located in Somerville, Massachusetts, is part of the Walker Books group. The logo depicting a bear carrying a candle is based on Walker Books's original logo.
Sebastian Walker launched Walker Books fro ...
Gail E. Haley
Gail E. Haley (born November 4, 1939) is an American writer and illustrator. She has won the annual awards for children's book illustration from both the American and British librarians, for two different picture books.
She won the 1971 Caldecot ...
was the first illustrator to win both medals, albeit for different works: the 1971 Caldecott for '' A Story a Story'' (1970) and the 1976 Greenaway for ''The Post Office Cat''. She also wrote both books.
Helen Oxenbury
Helen Gillian Oxenbury (born 1938) is an English illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She lives in North London. She has twice won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal, the British librarians' award for illustration and been runner-up ...
, who won the 1969 and 1999 medals, was also a "Highly Commended" runner-up four times from 1989 to 1994; the distinction was used 31 times in 29 years to 2002 and no other illustrator was highly commended more than twice.Michael Foreman, who won the 1982 and 1989 medals, was highly commended once and four times a "Commended" runner-up, a distinction used 68 times in 44 years to 2002.
Walker Books, based in London, with American subsidiary Candlewick Press in
Somerville, MA
Somerville ( ) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city had a total population of 81,045 people. With an area o ...
, has published 10 of the 30 Greenaway Medal-winning works from 1985 to 2014.
50-year ''Greenaway of Greenaways'' (2007)
For the 50th anniversary, CILIP posted online information about all of the winning works (1955–2005) and conducted a poll to identify the nation's favourite Kate Greenaway Medalist. The winner was announced 21 June 2007 at the
British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the British ...
. By less than one percentage point ''Dogger'', illustrated and written by Shirley Hughes (1977), outpolled ''Each Peach Pear Plum'' illustrated by Janet Ahlberg and written by Allan Ahlberg (1978).
The nation, and international voters too, considered a ballot or all-time shortlist comprising ten of the 53 Medal-winning works, selected by six "children's book experts".50th Anniversary. Press Desk, Releases for Anniversary (20 April 2007). The panel provided annotations including recommended ages that range from 1+ to 10+ years; age 4+ for the winner.
50th Anniversary Top Ten
*
Janet Ahlberg
Janet Ahlberg (21 October 1944 – 15 November 1994; née Hall) and Allan Ahlberg (born 5 June 1938) were a British married couple who created many children's books, including picture books that regularly appear at the top of "most popular" lis ...
, ''Each Peach Pear Plum'' (Kestrel, 1978), written by Allan Ahlberg
*
Edward Ardizzone
Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, (16 October 1900 – 8 November 1979), who sometimes signed his work "DIZ", was an English painter, print-maker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. For ''Tim All ...
Quentin Blake
Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. For his ...
Raymond Briggs
Raymond Redvers Briggs (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022) was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story ...
, ''
Father Christmas
Father Christmas is the traditional English name for the personification of Christmas. Although now known as a Christmas gift-bringer, and typically considered to be synonymous with Santa Claus, he was originally part of a much older and unrel ...
Gorilla
Gorillas are herbivorous, predominantly ground-dwelling great apes that inhabit the tropical forests of equatorial Africa. The genus ''Gorilla'' is divided into two species: the eastern gorilla and the western gorilla, and either four or fi ...
'' (Julia MacRae, 1983)
*
John Burningham
John Burningham (27 April 1936 – 4 January 2019) was an English author and illustrator of children's books, especially picture books for young children. He lived in north London with his wife Helen Oxenbury, another illustrator. His last publis ...
Lauren Child
Lauren Margot Peachy Child (born Helen Child; 29 November 1965) is an English children's author and illustrator. She is best known for the Charlie and Lola picture book series and other book series. Her influences include E. H. Shepard, Quen ...
Shirley Hughes
Winifred Shirley Hughes (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred. As of 2007, she lived i ...
Charles Keeping
Charles William James Keeping (22 September 1924 – 16 May 1988) was an English people, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He made the illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he creat ...
, ''The Highwayman'' (Oxford, 1981), an edition of the 1906 poem by Alfred Noyes
*
Helen Oxenbury
Helen Gillian Oxenbury (born 1938) is an English illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She lives in North London. She has twice won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal, the British librarians' award for illustration and been runner-up ...
, ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (Walker, 1999), an edition of the 1865 novel by Lewis Carroll
Shortlists
Headings give the official award dates: years of publication before 2006; years of presentation after 2006.
;1954 Carnegie Medal
Illustrator Harold Jones received a Special Commendation for the 1954 Carnegie Medal, for his part in ''Lavender's Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes'', compiled by Kathleen Lines (Oxford) — a 180-page collection named for "
Lavender's Blue
"Lavender's Blue" (also called "Lavender Blue") is an English folk song and nursery rhyme from the 17th century. Its Roud Folk Song Index number is 3483. It has been recorded in various forms and some pop versions have been hits in the U.S. and ...
", which Oxford University Press has reprinted many times. It was "a major reason" for the Library Association to establish the Kate Greenaway Medal that year. No 1955 work was judged worthy in 1956, so the Greenaway was actually inaugurated one year later, recognising a 1956 publication.
1955 to 1994
Prior to 1995 these listings cover only the Medalist and known Highly Commended (+) or Commended (–) books.
1955 (no Medal)
:
1956
Edward Ardizzone
Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, (16 October 1900 – 8 November 1979), who sometimes signed his work "DIZ", was an English painter, print-maker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. For ''Tim All ...
, ''Tim All Alone'' (Oxford) @
:
Ardizzone had inaugurated the Tim series in 1936 with ''Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain'' (Oxford); its last sequel was ''Ships Cook Ginger'' (1977). ''Tim All Alone'' was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.
1957 V. H. Drummond, ''Mrs Easter and the Storks'' (Faber) @
:
1958 (no Medal)
:
No work was considered suitable, the second and last time.
1959 William Stobbs, ''Kashtanka'' (Oxford), by
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; 29 January 1860 Old Style date 17 January. – 15 July 1904 Old Style date 2 July.) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career ...
(1887)
and ''A Bundle of Ballads'' (Oxford), by
Ruth Manning-Sanders
Ruth Manning-Sanders (21 August 1886 – 12 October 1988) was an English poet and author born in Wales, known for a series of children's books for which she collected and related fairy tales worldwide. She published over 90 books in her lifetime ...
from the
Child Ballads
The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child's studies of them were published as ''T ...
(19th century collection)
:–
Edward Ardizzone
Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, (16 October 1900 – 8 November 1979), who sometimes signed his work "DIZ", was an English painter, print-maker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. For ''Tim All ...
, ''Titus in Trouble'' (Bodley Head), by James Reeves
:–
Gerald Rose
Gerald Hembdon Seymour Rose (born 1935) is a British illustrator of children's books. He won the 1960 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject, for ''Old Win ...
, ''Wuffles Goes To Town'' (Faber), by Elizabeth Rose
The 1959 medal recognised two books, the first of four such occasions to 1982. Two runners-up were "Commended", a new distinction that would be used 99 times in 44 years to 2002, including 31 "Highly Commended" books that were named beginning 1974.
1960
Gerald Rose
Gerald Hembdon Seymour Rose (born 1935) is a British illustrator of children's books. He won the 1960 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject, for ''Old Win ...
, ''Old Winkle and the Seagulls'' (Faber), by Elizabeth Rose
: (no commendations)
1961 Antony Maitland, ''Mrs Cockle's Cat'' (Constable; Longman), by
Philippa Pearce
Ann Philippa Pearce OBE (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books. Best known of them is the time-slip novel ''Tom's Midnight Garden'', which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as ...
: (no commendations)
1962
Brian Wildsmith
Brian Lawrence Wildsmith (22 January 1930 – 31 August 2016) was a British painter and children's book illustrator. He won the 1962 Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration, for the wordless alphabet book ''ABC''. In all h ...
, ''ABC'' (Oxford) @
:– Carol Barker, ''Achilles the Donkey'' (Dobson), by
H. E. Bates
Herbert Ernest Bates (16 May 1905 – 29 January 1974), better known as H. E. Bates, was an English writer. His best-known works include ''Love for Lydia'', '' The Darling Buds of May'', and '' My Uncle Silas''.
Early life
H.E. Bates was ...
''ABC'' was Wildsmith's first book, an
alphabet book
An alphabet book is a type of children's book giving basic instruction in an alphabet. Intended for young children, alphabet books commonly use pictures, simple language and alliteration to aid language learning. Alphabet books are published ...
without any words, commissioned by Mabel George at Oxford.
1963
John Burningham
John Burningham (27 April 1936 – 4 January 2019) was an English author and illustrator of children's books, especially picture books for young children. He lived in north London with his wife Helen Oxenbury, another illustrator. His last publis ...
Victor Ambrus
Victor Ambrus (born László Győző Ambrus, 19 August 1935 – 10 February 2021) was a Hungarian-born British illustrator of history, folk tales, and animal story books. He also became known from his appearances on the Channel 4 television ...
, ''The Royal Navy'' (Oxford), by Peter Dawlish
:– Victor Ambrus, ''A Time of Trial'' (Oxford), by Hester Burton
:–
Brian Wildsmith
Brian Lawrence Wildsmith (22 January 1930 – 31 August 2016) was a British painter and children's book illustrator. He won the 1962 Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration, for the wordless alphabet book ''ABC''. In all h ...
, ''The Lion and the Rat: A Fable'' (Oxford), by
Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine (, , ; 8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his ''Fables'', which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Euro ...
(1668), from Aesop (6th century BCE)
:– Brian Wildsmith, ''Oxford Book of Poetry for Children'' (Oxford), ed.
Edward Blishen
Edward Blishen (29 April 1920 – 13 December 1996) was an English author and broadcaster. He may be known best for the first of two children's novels based on Greek mythology, written with Leon Garfield, illustrated by Charles Keeping, and pub ...
''Borka'' was Burningham's first book as an author or illustrator and it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.
1964
C. Walter Hodges
Cyril Walter Hodges (18 March 1909 – 26 November 2004) was an English artist and writer best known for illustrating children's books and for helping to recreate Elizabethan theatre. He won the annual Greenaway Medal for British children's boo ...
Raymond Briggs
Raymond Redvers Briggs (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022) was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story ...
, ''Fee Fi Fo Fum'' (Hamish Hamilton) @
:–
Victor Ambrus
Victor Ambrus (born László Győző Ambrus, 19 August 1935 – 10 February 2021) was a Hungarian-born British illustrator of history, folk tales, and animal story books. He also became known from his appearances on the Channel 4 television ...
, for work in general
:–
William Papas
William "Bill" Papas (15 July 1927 – 19 June 2000) was a political cartoonist and caricaturist, book author and illustrator, and watercolourist. In the 1960s and 1970s he worked for ''The Guardian'', ''The Sunday Times'' and ''Punch''. His wor ...
, for work in general
Hodges was a freelance illustrator, a lover of theatre, and an authority on theatre construction in Shakespeare's time. ''Shakespeare's Theatre'' was the first nonfiction book cited for the medal.
Ambrus and Papas received the first and only commendations for "work in general".
1965
Victor Ambrus
Victor Ambrus (born László Győző Ambrus, 19 August 1935 – 10 February 2021) was a Hungarian-born British illustrator of history, folk tales, and animal story books. He also became known from his appearances on the Channel 4 television ...
, ''The Three Poor Tailors'' (Oxford; Hamish Hamilton) @
: (no commendations)
''The Three Poor Tailors'' was the first-published book written by Ambrus, who had illustrated dozens of fiction and nonfiction books for Oxford since immigrating from Hungary via Austria.
1966
Raymond Briggs
Raymond Redvers Briggs (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022) was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story ...
, ''Mother Goose Treasury'' (Hamish Hamilton), traditional
:–
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* Doreen (name), a woman's name, usually found in English-speaking countries
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* Doreen Corkhill, on the British soap opera ''Brookside' ...
, ''The Story of Saul the King'' (Constable; Oxford), abridged from
Helen Waddell
Helen Jane Waddell (31 May 1889 – 5 March 1965) was an Irish poet, translator and playwright. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal.
Biography
She was born in Tokyo, the tenth and youngest child of Hugh Waddell, a Presbyterian minister ...
, ''Stories from Holy Writ'' (1949)
1967
Charles Keeping
Charles William James Keeping (22 September 1924 – 16 May 1988) was an English people, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He made the illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he creat ...
, ''Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary'' (Oxford) @
:–
William Papas
William "Bill" Papas (15 July 1927 – 19 June 2000) was a political cartoonist and caricaturist, book author and illustrator, and watercolourist. In the 1960s and 1970s he worked for ''The Guardian'', ''The Sunday Times'' and ''Punch''. His wor ...
, ''The Church'' (Oxford), by
Geoffrey Moorhouse
Geoffrey Moorhouse, FRGS, FRSL, D.Litt. (29 November 1931 – 26 November 2009) was an English journalist and author. He was born Geoffrey Heald in Bolton and took his stepfather's surname. He attended Bury Grammar School. He began writing as a ...
:– William Papas, ''No Mules'' (Oxford) @
:–
Brian Wildsmith
Brian Lawrence Wildsmith (22 January 1930 – 31 August 2016) was a British painter and children's book illustrator. He won the 1962 Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration, for the wordless alphabet book ''ABC''. In all h ...
, ''Birds'' (Oxford) @
1968
Pauline Baynes
Pauline Diana Baynes (9 September 1922 – 1 August 2008) was an English illustrator, author and commercial artist. She contributed drawings and paintings to more than 200 books, mostly in the children's genre. She was the first illustrat ...
, ''A Dictionary of Chivalry'' (Longman), by Grant Uden —reference
:– Gaynor Chapman, ''The Luck Child: Based on a story of the Brothers Grimm'' (Hamish Hamilton), based on
Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the ...
:–
Shirley Hughes
Winifred Shirley Hughes (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred. As of 2007, she lived i ...
, ''Flutes and Cymbals: Poetry for the Young'' (Bodley Head), compiled by Leonard Clark
:–
William Papas
William "Bill" Papas (15 July 1927 – 19 June 2000) was a political cartoonist and caricaturist, book author and illustrator, and watercolourist. In the 1960s and 1970s he worked for ''The Guardian'', ''The Sunday Times'' and ''Punch''. His wor ...
, ''A Letter from India'' (Oxford) @ —information book
:– William Papas, ''A Letter from Israel'' (Oxford) @ —information book
:– William Papas, ''Taresh the tea planter'' (Oxford) @
Baynes alone has won the medal for illustrating a reference book; only a few nonfiction or fictionalised information books have been cited.
The distinguished runners-up (–) were called "Honours" rather than "Commended" for 1968, 1969, and perhaps 1970.
1969
Helen Oxenbury
Helen Gillian Oxenbury (born 1938) is an English illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She lives in North London. She has twice won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal, the British librarians' award for illustration and been runner-up ...
, ''The Quangle Wangle's Hat'' (Heinemann; Franklin Watts), by
Edward Lear
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limerick (poetry), limericks, a form he popularised. ...
(late 19th century)
and ''The Dragon of an Ordinary Family'' (Heinemann), by
Margaret Mahy
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:–
Errol Le Cain
Errol John Le Cain (5 March 1941 – 3 January 1989) was a British animator and children's book illustrator. In 1984 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for "distinguished illustration in a book for children" for ''Hiawatha's Childho ...
, ''The Cabbage Princess'' (Faber) @
:–
Charles Keeping
Charles William James Keeping (22 September 1924 – 16 May 1988) was an English people, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He made the illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he creat ...
, ''Joseph's Yard'' (Longman) @
The distinguished runners-up (–) were called "Honours" again.
1970
John Burningham
John Burningham (27 April 1936 – 4 January 2019) was an English author and illustrator of children's books, especially picture books for young children. He lived in north London with his wife Helen Oxenbury, another illustrator. His last publis ...
Charles Keeping
Charles William James Keeping (22 September 1924 – 16 May 1988) was an English people, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He made the illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he creat ...
, ''
The God Beneath the Sea
''The God Beneath the Sea'' is a children's novel based on Greek mythology, written by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, illustrated by Charles Keeping, and published by Longman in 1970. It was awarded the annual Carnegie Medal (Garfield & Blis ...
'' (Longman), by
Leon Garfield
Leon Garfield FRSL (14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted '' Shakespeare: The Animated Tal ...
and
Edward Blishen
Edward Blishen (29 April 1920 – 13 December 1996) was an English author and broadcaster. He may be known best for the first of two children's novels based on Greek mythology, written with Leon Garfield, illustrated by Charles Keeping, and pub ...
:–
Jan Pieńkowski
Jan Michał Pieńkowski (8 August 1936 – 19 February 2022) was a Polish-born British author of children's books—as illustrator, as writer, and as designer of movable books. He is best known for illustrating the ''Meg and Mog'' picture book ...
, ''The Golden Bird'' (J. M. Dent), by Edith Brill
:– Krystyna Turska, ''Pegasus'' (Hamish Hamilton), the myth of Pegasus and
Bellerophon
Bellerophon (; Ancient Greek: Βελλεροφῶν) or Bellerophontes (), born as Hipponous, was a hero of Greek mythology. He was "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside Cadmus and Perseus, before the days of Heracles", and his ...
retold by Turska
Burningham became the first to win two medals, 1963 and 1970, one year after his wife Helen Oxenbury won her first of two. As of 2012 fourteen illustrators have won two Greenaways, none three.
Garfield and Blishen won the companion Carnegie Medal for ''The God Beneath the Sea''. (For more than fifty years until 2012, no single book won both of the CILIP awards.)
1971
Jan Pieńkowski
Jan Michał Pieńkowski (8 August 1936 – 19 February 2022) was a Polish-born British author of children's books—as illustrator, as writer, and as designer of movable books. He is best known for illustrating the ''Meg and Mog'' picture book ...
, ''The Kingdom under the Sea and other stories'' (Jonathan Cape), retold by
Joan Aiken
Joan Delano Aiken (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For ''The ...
:–
Victor Ambrus
Victor Ambrus (born László Győző Ambrus, 19 August 1935 – 10 February 2021) was a Hungarian-born British illustrator of history, folk tales, and animal story books. He also became known from his appearances on the Channel 4 television ...
, ''The Sultan's Bath'' (Oxford) @
:–
Brian Wildsmith
Brian Lawrence Wildsmith (22 January 1930 – 31 August 2016) was a British painter and children's book illustrator. He won the 1962 Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration, for the wordless alphabet book ''ABC''. In all h ...
, ''The Owl and the Woodpecker'' (Oxford) @
(One source calls these two runners-up "Highly Commended". They would be the first.)
1972 Krystyna Turska, ''The Woodcutter's Duck'' (Hamish Hamilton) @
:– Carol Barker, ''King Midas and the Golden Touch'' (Franklin Watts), a version of the Midas myth
:–
Pauline Baynes
Pauline Diana Baynes (9 September 1922 – 1 August 2008) was an English illustrator, author and commercial artist. She contributed drawings and paintings to more than 200 books, mostly in the children's genre. She was the first illustrat ...
, ''Snail and Caterpillar'' (Longman), by Helen Piers
:– Antony Maitland, ''The Ghost Downstairs'' (Longman), by
Leon Garfield
Leon Garfield FRSL (14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted '' Shakespeare: The Animated Tal ...
1973
Raymond Briggs
Raymond Redvers Briggs (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022) was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story ...
, ''
Father Christmas
Father Christmas is the traditional English name for the personification of Christmas. Although now known as a Christmas gift-bringer, and typically considered to be synonymous with Santa Claus, he was originally part of a much older and unrel ...
'' (Hamish Hamilton) @
:–
Fiona French
Fiona is a feminine given name. The name is associated with the Gaelic traditions of Ireland and Scotland (through the poetry of James Macpherson), but has also become popular in England.. It can be considered either a Latinised form of the Gae ...
, ''My Brother Sean'' (Bodley Head), by Petronella Breinburg
Briggs introduced the grumpy old man with a challenging, lonely job, to be continued in ''Father Christmas Goes on Holiday'' ( ). ''Father Christmas'' was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.
1974
Pat Hutchins
Patricia Evelyn Hutchins (18 June 1942 – 8 November 2017) was an English illustrator, writer of children's books, Actor and broadcaster. She won the 1974 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for her book ''The Wind Blew''. On sc ...
, ''The Wind Blew'' (Bodley Head) @
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Mitsumasa Anno
was a Japanese illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books with few or no words. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1984 for his "lasting contribution to children's literature."
Life
Ann ...
, ''Anno's Alphabet'' (Bodley Head) @
:+
Charles Keeping
Charles William James Keeping (22 September 1924 – 16 May 1988) was an English people, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He made the illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he creat ...
, ''Railway Passage'' (Oxford) @
''The Wind Blew'' has been called informative, meteorological poetry.
(According to answers.com citing Gale Biographies, ''Anno's Alphabet'' was ineligible for the medal, with its Japanese author and original publisher.)
1975
Victor Ambrus
Victor Ambrus (born László Győző Ambrus, 19 August 1935 – 10 February 2021) was a Hungarian-born British illustrator of history, folk tales, and animal story books. He also became known from his appearances on the Channel 4 television ...
, ''Horses in Battle'' (Oxford) @
and ''Mishka'' (Oxford) @
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Shirley Hughes
Winifred Shirley Hughes (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred. As of 2007, she lived i ...
, ''Helpers'' (Bodley Head) @
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Errol Le Cain
Errol John Le Cain (5 March 1941 – 3 January 1989) was a British animator and children's book illustrator. In 1984 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for "distinguished illustration in a book for children" for ''Hiawatha's Childho ...
, ''Thorn Rose, or the Sleeping Beauty'' (Faber), from
Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the ...
Ambrus won his second medal. ''Horses in Battle'', nonfiction or fictionalised history, is the latest "information book" to be cited except for one, ''Pirate Diary'' (2001).
1976
Gail E. Haley
Gail E. Haley (born November 4, 1939) is an American writer and illustrator. She has won the annual awards for children's book illustration from both the American and British librarians, for two different picture books.
She won the 1971 Caldecot ...
, ''The Post Office Cat'' (Bodley Head) @
:+
Graham Oakley
Graham and Graeme may refer to:
People
* Graham (given name), an English-language given name
* Graham (surname), an English-language surname
* Graeme (surname), an English-language surname
* Graham (musician) (born 1979), Burmese singer
* Clan Gr ...
, ''The Church Mice Adrift'' (Macmillan) @ —fifth of 12 Church Mice books
:+ Maureen Roffey, ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor'' (Bodley Head), by
Bernard Lodge
Bernard Lodge (born 1933) is a British graphic designer. He worked for the BBC from 1959 to 1977 before launching a freelance career. He has been described by the Open University as a pioneer of graphic design in television.
Lodge attended the ...
:+ Joanna Troughton, ''How the Birds Changed Their Feathers'' (Blackie, Folk Tales of the World), retold and illustrated by Troughton @
Haley had won the 1971 Caldecott Medal (U.S.) and moved to the U.K. in 1973. No one else has won both medals, which CILIP rules and co-publication enable in the 21st century.
1977
Shirley Hughes
Winifred Shirley Hughes (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred. As of 2007, she lived i ...
Janet Ahlberg
Janet Ahlberg (21 October 1944 – 15 November 1994; née Hall) and Allan Ahlberg (born 5 June 1938) were a British married couple who created many children's books, including picture books that regularly appear at the top of "most popular" lis ...
, ''Burglar Bill'' (Heinemann), by Allan Ahlberg
:–
Mary Rayner
Mary may refer to:
People
* Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name)
Religious contexts
* New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below
* Mary, mother of Jesus, also calle ...
, ''Garth Pig and the Ice Cream Lady'' (Macmillan) @
''Dogger'' was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007, and was voted the public favourite from that slate.
1978
Janet Ahlberg
Janet Ahlberg (21 October 1944 – 15 November 1994; née Hall) and Allan Ahlberg (born 5 June 1938) were a British married couple who created many children's books, including picture books that regularly appear at the top of "most popular" lis ...
, ''Each Peach Pear Plum'' (Kestrel), by Allan Ahlberg
:+
Raymond Briggs
Raymond Redvers Briggs (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022) was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story ...
, ''
The Snowman
''The Snowman'' is a 1982 British animated television film based on Raymond Briggs's 1978 picture book ''The Snowman.'' It was directed by Dianne Jackson for Channel 4. It was first shown on 26 December 1982, and was an immediate success. It wa ...
'' (Hamish Hamilton) @ —no text
:– Michael Foreman, ''Popular Folk Tales'' (Gollancz), newly translated from
Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the ...
by
Brian Alderson
Brian Alderson (5 May 1950 – 23 April 1997) was a Scottish footballer. He predominantly played as a winger, but was also able to play as a striker.
Alderson, who was born in Dundee, began his career with local youth side Lochee Harp ...
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Errol Le Cain
Errol John Le Cain (5 March 1941 – 3 January 1989) was a British animator and children's book illustrator. In 1984 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for "distinguished illustration in a book for children" for ''Hiawatha's Childho ...
, ''The Twelve Dancing Princesses'' (Faber), retold from
Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm ( or ), Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were a brother duo of German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the ...
by Le Cain
''Each Peach Pear Plum'' was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007, and finished a close second in public voting on that slate.
1979
Jan Pieńkowski
Jan Michał Pieńkowski (8 August 1936 – 19 February 2022) was a Polish-born British author of children's books—as illustrator, as writer, and as designer of movable books. He is best known for illustrating the ''Meg and Mog'' picture book ...
, ''The Haunted House'' (Heinemann) @
:+
Quentin Blake
Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. For his ...
, ''The Wild Washerwomen: A new folk tale'' ( ), by John Yeoman
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Pat Hutchins
Patricia Evelyn Hutchins (18 June 1942 – 8 November 2017) was an English illustrator, writer of children's books, Actor and broadcaster. She won the 1974 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association for her book ''The Wind Blew''. On sc ...
, ''One-Eyed Jack'' ( ) @
Pieńkowski won his second medal.
1980
Quentin Blake
Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. For his ...
, ''Mr Magnolia'' (Jonathan Cape) @
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Beryl Cook
Beryl Cook, OBE (10 September 192628 May 2008) was a British artist best known for her original and instantly recognisable paintings. Often comical, her works pictured people whom she encountered in everyday life, including people enjoying th ...
Peter Dickinson
Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories.
Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association ...
:–
Jill Murphy
Jill Murphy (5 July 1949 – 18 August 2021) was a British author and illustrator of children's books. First published in 1974 at the age of 24, she was best known for the ''Worst Witch'' novels and ''Large Family'' picture books, with sales amo ...
, ''Peace at Last'' ( ) @
''Mister Magnolia'' was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.
Dickinson won the companion Carnegie Medal for ''City of Gold''. (For more than fifty years until 2012, no single book won both of the CILIP awards.)
1981
Charles Keeping
Charles William James Keeping (22 September 1924 – 16 May 1988) was an English people, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He made the illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he creat ...
, ''The Highwayman'' (Oxford), an edition of the 1906 poem by
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes CBE (16 September 188025 June 1958) was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright.
Early years
Noyes was born in Wolverhampton, England the son of Alfred and Amelia Adams Noyes. When he was four, the family moved to Ab ...
:– Nicola Bayley, ''The Patchwork Cat'' (Jonathan Cape), by
William Mayne
William James Carter Mayne (16 March 1928 – 24 March 2010) was an English writer of children's fiction. ''The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature'' calls him one of the outstanding children's authors of the 20th century and The Times Liter ...
:+
Jan Ormerod
Jan Ormerod (23 September 1946 – 23 January 2013), born Janet Louise Hendry, was an Australian illustrator of children's books. She first came to prominence from her wordless picture book ''Sunshine'' which won the 1982 Mother Goose Award. He ...
, ''Sunshine'' (Kestrel) @
Keeping won his second medal. ''The Highwayman'' was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.
1982 Michael Foreman, ''Long Neck and Thunder Foot'' (Kestrel), by Helen Piers
and ''Sleeping Beauty and other favourite fairy tales'' (Gollancz), selected and translated by
Angela Carter
Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picar ...
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Janet Ahlberg
Janet Ahlberg (21 October 1944 – 15 November 1994; née Hall) and Allan Ahlberg (born 5 June 1938) were a British married couple who created many children's books, including picture books that regularly appear at the top of "most popular" lis ...
, ''The Baby's Catalogue'' ( ), by Allan Ahlberg
:+
Graham Oakley
Graham and Graeme may refer to:
People
* Graham (given name), an English-language given name
* Graham (surname), an English-language surname
* Graeme (surname), an English-language surname
* Graham (musician) (born 1979), Burmese singer
* Clan Gr ...
, ''The Church Mice in Action'' (Macmillan) @ —eighth of twelve Church Mice books
The 1982 medal recognised two books, the last of four times from 1959. ''Sleeping Beauty'' also won the inaugural
Kurt Maschler Award
The Kurt Maschler Award (1982 to 1999) was a British literary award that annually recognised one "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other." Winning authors and ill ...
for children's book "text and illustration ... integrated so that each enhances and balances the other."
Oakley and the Church Mice were highly commended for the second time, the first double recognition for a series (books five and eight). Subsequently, Janet Ahlberg (Jolly Postman series) and Chris Riddell (Diary series) were runners-up for the first books and medalists for the sequels.
1983 Anthony Browne, ''Gorilla'' (Julia MacRae) @
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Molly Bang
Molly Garrett Bang (born December 29, 1943) is an American illustrator. For her illustration of children's books she has been a runner-up for the American Caldecott Medal three times and for the British Greenaway Medal once. Announced June 2015, ...
, ''
Ten, Nine, Eight
''Ten, Nine, Eight'' is a children's picture book by Molly Bang, published in 1983 by Greenwillow Books. It is a countdown from ten to one by a little girl who is getting ready for bed. Barney the Dinosaur reads it in the ''Barney & Friends'' epis ...
The Saga of Erik the Viking
''The Saga of Erik the Viking'' is a children's novel written by the Welsh comedian Terry Jones, illustrated by Michael Foreman, and published by Pavilion in 1983. Foreman was commended for the annual Greenaway Medal by the Library Association, ...
'' (Pavilion), by
Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 – 21 January 2020) was a Welsh comedian, director, historian, actor, writer and member of the Monty Python comedy team.
After graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English, Jones and ...
:–
Ron Maris Ron is a shortening of the name Ronald.
Ron or RON may also refer to:
Arts and media
* Big Ron (''EastEnders''), a TV character
* Ron (''King of Fighters''), a video game character
*Ron Douglas, the protagonist in ''Lucky Stiff'' played by Joe ...
, ''My Book'' (Julia MacRae) @
''Gorilla'' was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007. It also won the annual
Kurt Maschler Award
The Kurt Maschler Award (1982 to 1999) was a British literary award that annually recognised one "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other." Winning authors and ill ...
for integrated text and illustration.
''Ten, Nine, Eight'' was also a runner-up for the U.S.
Caldecott Medal
The Randolph Caldecott Medal, frequently shortened to just the Caldecott, annually recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It is awarded to the illustrator by the Association for Library Service ...
("Honour Book").
1984
Errol Le Cain
Errol John Le Cain (5 March 1941 – 3 January 1989) was a British animator and children's book illustrator. In 1984 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for "distinguished illustration in a book for children" for ''Hiawatha's Childho ...
, ''Hiawatha's Childhood'' (Faber), a section of the 1855 poem by
Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include "Paul Revere's Ride", ''The Song of Hiawatha'', and ''Evangeline''. He was the first American to completely transl ...
: (no commendations)
1985 Juan Wijngaard, ''Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady'' (Walker), retold by Selina Hastings
:– Michael Foreman, ''Seasons of Splendour: Tales, myths, and legends of India'' (Pavilion), by
Madhur Jaffrey
Madhur Jaffrey CBE (née Bahadur; born 13 August 1933) is an Indian-British-American actress, food and travel writer, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing Indian cuisine to the western hemisphere with her debut cookbook, ...
:– Gillian McClure, ''Tog the Ribber, or, Granny's Tale'' (Andre Deutsch), poem by Paul Coltman
1986
Fiona French
Fiona is a feminine given name. The name is associated with the Gaelic traditions of Ireland and Scotland (through the poetry of James Macpherson), but has also become popular in England.. It can be considered either a Latinised form of the Gae ...
, ''Snow White in New York'' (Oxford) @
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Janet Ahlberg
Janet Ahlberg (21 October 1944 – 15 November 1994; née Hall) and Allan Ahlberg (born 5 June 1938) were a British married couple who created many children's books, including picture books that regularly appear at the top of "most popular" lis ...
, ''
The Jolly Postman
''The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters'' is an interactive children's picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. The innovative project required five years to complete, and much discussion with both the publisher Heinemann and the printer b ...
'' ( ), by Allan Ahlberg
:– Paddy Bouma, ''Are We Nearly There?'' (Bodley Head), by Louis Baum
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Babette Cole
Babette Cole (10 September 1950 – 15 January 2017) was an English children's writer and illustrator.
Life and career
Cole was born on Jersey in the Channel Islands. She attended the Canterbury College of Art (now the University for the Creat ...
, ''Princess Smartypants'' ( ) @
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Jan Ormerod
Jan Ormerod (23 September 1946 – 23 January 2013), born Janet Louise Hendry, was an Australian illustrator of children's books. She first came to prominence from her wordless picture book ''Sunshine'' which won the 1982 Mother Goose Award. He ...
, ''Happy Christmas, Gemma'' (Walker), by Sarah Hayes
:–
Fiona Pragoff
Fiona is a feminine given name. The name is associated with the Gaelic traditions of Ireland and Scotland (through the poetry of James Macpherson), but has also become popular in England.. It can be considered either a Latinisation of names, Lati ...
, ''How Many?: From 0 to 20'' (Gollancz) @
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Tony Ross
Anthony Lee Ross (born 10 August 1938) is a British author and illustrator of children's picture books. In Britain, he is best known for writing and illustrating his Little Princess books and for illustrating the Horrid Henry series by Frances ...
, ''I Want My Potty'' ( ) @ —the first Little Princess book
The Ahlbergs won the Emils for ''The Jolly Postman'' (Kurt Maschler Award).
1987 Adrienne Kennaway, ''Crafty Chameleon'' (Hodder & Stoughton), by Mwenye Hadithi
:–
Babette Cole
Babette Cole (10 September 1950 – 15 January 2017) was an English children's writer and illustrator.
Life and career
Cole was born on Jersey in the Channel Islands. She attended the Canterbury College of Art (now the University for the Creat ...
, ''Prince Cinders'' ( ) @
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Errol Le Cain
Errol John Le Cain (5 March 1941 – 3 January 1989) was a British animator and children's book illustrator. In 1984 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for "distinguished illustration in a book for children" for ''Hiawatha's Childho ...
, ''The Enchanter's Daughter'' (Jonathan Cape), by
Antonia Barber
Antonia Barber (real name Barbara Anthony; 10 December 1932 - 4 April 2019), was an English author of books for children and adults. Barber resided in Kent and Mousehole, Cornwall. Her book ''The Mousehole Cat'' was adapted as an animated film a ...
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Jill Murphy
Jill Murphy (5 July 1949 – 18 August 2021) was a British author and illustrator of children's books. First published in 1974 at the age of 24, she was best known for the ''Worst Witch'' novels and ''Large Family'' picture books, with sales amo ...
, ''All in One Piece'' ( ) @
1988
Barbara Firth
Barbara Firth (1928-2013) was a British illustrator of children's books, best known for her work on Martin Waddell's ''Little Bear'' books. She won the 1988 Kate Greenaway Medal.
Early life
Firth was born in Cheshire on 20 September 1928. She ...
, ''Can't You Sleep Little Bear?'' (Walker), by
Martin Waddell
Martin Waddell (born 10 April 1941) is a writer of children's books from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He may be known best for his picture book texts featuring anthropomorphic animals, especially the ''Little Bear'' series illustrated by Barbara F ...
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Ruth Brown
Ruth Alston Brown (; January 12, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes referred to as the " Queen of R&B". She was noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atl ...
, ''Ladybird, Ladybird'' (Andersen), a traditional rhyme
:+ Anthony Browne, ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' ( ), an edition of the 1865 classic by
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequel ...
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Penny Dale
Penny Dale (born 1954 in London) is an English illustrator and writer of children's books.
Background
Dale studied Fine Arts and graduated from Exeter College of Art and Design. She moved to South East Wales in 1982, and currently resides i ...
, ''Wake Up Mr. B!'' (Walker) @
:+ Roberto Innocenti, ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (
Creative Education
Creative education is when students are able to use imagination and critical thinking to create new and meaningful forms of ideas where they can take risks, be independent and flexible. Instead of being taught to reiterate what was learned, stud ...
Carlo Collodi
Carlo Lorenzini (24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi (), was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''.
Early life
Col ...
Merlin Dreams
Merlin ( cy, Myrddin, kw, Marzhin, br, Merzhin) is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a mage, with several other main roles. His usual depiction, based on an amalgamation of historic and leg ...
'' ( ), by
Peter Dickinson
Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories.
Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association ...
Browne won the Emil for this edition of ''Alice'' (Kurt Maschler Award).
Special 1988 commendation:
David Burnie
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
, ''Bird'' (London: Dorling Kindersley, in association with the National History Museum)
1989 Michael Foreman, ''War Boy: a Country Childhood'' (Pavilion) @ —autobiographical
:+
Helen Oxenbury
Helen Gillian Oxenbury (born 1938) is an English illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She lives in North London. She has twice won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal, the British librarians' award for illustration and been runner-up ...
, ''
We're Going on a Bear Hunt
''We're Going on a Bear Hunt'' is a 1989 children's picture book written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. It has won numerous awards and was the subject of a '' Guinness World Record'' for "Largest Reading Lesson" with a book-r ...
'' (Walker), retold by
Michael Rosen
Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is a British children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster and activist who has written 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009.
Early life
Michael Wayne Ro ...
Foreman won his second medal. Oxenbury was highly commended for the first of four times.
1990 Gary Blythe, ''The Whales' Song'' (Hutchinson), by Dyan Sheldon
:– Nicola Bayley, ''The Mousehole Cat'' (Walker), by
Antonia Barber
Antonia Barber (real name Barbara Anthony; 10 December 1932 - 4 April 2019), was an English author of books for children and adults. Barber resided in Kent and Mousehole, Cornwall. Her book ''The Mousehole Cat'' was adapted as an animated film a ...
Creative Education
Creative education is when students are able to use imagination and critical thinking to create new and meaningful forms of ideas where they can take risks, be independent and flexible. Instead of being taught to reiterate what was learned, stud ...
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
:+
Tony Ross
Anthony Lee Ross (born 10 August 1938) is a British author and illustrator of children's picture books. In Britain, he is best known for writing and illustrating his Little Princess books and for illustrating the Horrid Henry series by Frances ...
Jeanne Willis
Jeanne Willis (born St Albans, England) is an author of several children's books, including '' The Monster Bed'' (1986),''The Monster Bed'', about the author the '' Dr. Xargle's Book of...'' series (1988–2004), and ''Shamanka'' (2007). Willis wa ...
1991
Janet Ahlberg
Janet Ahlberg (21 October 1944 – 15 November 1994; née Hall) and Allan Ahlberg (born 5 June 1938) were a British married couple who created many children's books, including picture books that regularly appear at the top of "most popular" lis ...
Caroline Binch
Caroline Binch (born 1947) is an English people, English illustrator and writer of Children's literature, children's books.
Career
Binch began working as a children's book illustrator in 1987, illustrating Therese Pouyanne's book ''Hippo''. S ...
Helen Oxenbury
Helen Gillian Oxenbury (born 1938) is an English illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She lives in North London. She has twice won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal, the British librarians' award for illustration and been runner-up ...
, ''Farmer Duck'' (Walker), by
Martin Waddell
Martin Waddell (born 10 April 1941) is a writer of children's books from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He may be known best for his picture book texts featuring anthropomorphic animals, especially the ''Little Bear'' series illustrated by Barbara F ...
Ahlberg won her second medal, both for husband-and-wife collaborations. ''The Jolly Christmas Postman'' was the second of three interactive Jolly Postman books; the last would be published posthumously. Janet Ahlberg is one of three people to be commended for the Greenaway Medal, at least, for two books in a series.
1992 Anthony Browne, ''Zoo'' (Julia MacRae) @
:+ Jill Barton, ''The Pig in the Pond'' (Walker), by
Martin Waddell
Martin Waddell (born 10 April 1941) is a writer of children's books from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He may be known best for his picture book texts featuring anthropomorphic animals, especially the ''Little Bear'' series illustrated by Barbara F ...
:+
Caroline Binch
Caroline Binch (born 1947) is an English people, English illustrator and writer of Children's literature, children's books.
Career
Binch began working as a children's book illustrator in 1987, illustrating Therese Pouyanne's book ''Hippo''. S ...
, ''Hue Boy'' (Dial), by Rita Phillips Mitchell
Browne won his second medal.
1993 Alan Lee, '' Black Ships Before Troy'' (Frances Lincoln), by
Rosemary Sutcliff
Rosemary Sutcliff (14 December 1920 – 23 July 1992) was an English novelist best known for children's books, especially historical fiction and retellings of myths and legends. Although she was primarily a children's author, some of her novel ...
War Game
A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a realistic simulation of an armed conflict. Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to s ...
'' (Pavilion) @
:+
Helen Oxenbury
Helen Gillian Oxenbury (born 1938) is an English illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She lives in North London. She has twice won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal, the British librarians' award for illustration and been runner-up ...
, ''
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
''The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig'' is a children's picture book written by Eugene Trivizas (Evgenios Trivizas), illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, and first published by Heinemann in 1993. The story is a comically inverted version of t ...
'' ( ), by
Eugene Trivizas
Eugene Trivizas (Greek: Eυγένιος Τριβιζάς; born 1946) is a Greek sociologist and writer of children's books.
For his lasting contribution as a children's writer, Trivizas was a finalist for the biennial, international Hans Chri ...
Foreman was a distinguished runner-up for the fifth time (once highly commended).
1994 Gregory Rogers, ''Way Home'' (Andersen), by
Libby Hathorn
Elizabeth Helen Hathorn (born 1943) is an Australian writer for children, and a poet who works with schools, institutions and communities. She has received many awards for her books, some of which have been translated into several languages. In ...
:+
Helen Oxenbury
Helen Gillian Oxenbury (born 1938) is an English illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She lives in North London. She has twice won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal, the British librarians' award for illustration and been runner-up ...
, ''So Much'' (Walker), by Trish Cooke
:–
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell ( ) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the ''Observer''. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' ann ...
, '' Something Else'' (Puffin), by Kathryn Cave
Oxenbury was the lone "Highly Commended" runner-up for the fourth time in six years. The distinction would be used 31 times in 29 years to 2002. Cooke and Oxenbury won the Emils for ''So Much'' (Kurt Maschler Award).
1995 to 2002
Through 2002 some runners-up were Commended, including some Highly Commended. Where the entire shortlist is given here (back to 1995), boldface marks the winner, plus (+) marks the highly commended books, and dash (–) marks the commended books.
;1995
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P. J. Lynch
Patrick James Lynch (born 2 March 1962), known professionally as P. J. Lynch, is an Ireland, Irish artist and illustrator of children's books. He has won a number of awards, including two Kate Greenaway Medals and three Christopher Awards ...
Quentin Blake
Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. For his ...
, ''Clown'' (Jonathan Cape) @
:
Christina Balit Christina may refer to:
People
* Christina (given name), shared by several people
* Christina (surname), shared by several people
Places
* Christina, Montana, unincorporated community, United States
* Christina, British Columbia, Canada
* Chr ...
, ''Blodin the Beast'' (Frances Lincoln), by
Michael Morpurgo
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo (''né'' Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as ''War Horse'' (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytellin ...
Mick Inkpen
Mick Inkpen (born 22 December 1952) is a British author and illustrator. He is best known for his creations Kipper the Dog and Wibbly Pig.
Background
Inkpen was born on 22 December 1952 in Romford, Essex, England. He was educated at Roy ...
, ''Nothing '' (Hodder) @
:
Colin McNaughton
Colin McNaughton (born 18 May 1951) is a British writer and illustrator of over seventy children's books. He is also a poet, focusing mainly on humorous children's poetry. He trained in graphic design at the Central School of Art and Design in ...
, ''Here Come the Aliens'' (Walker) @
Henderson and Benson won the Emils for ''The Little Boat'' (Kurt Maschler Award).
;1996
*–
Christina Balit Christina may refer to:
People
* Christina (given name), shared by several people
* Christina (surname), shared by several people
Places
* Christina, Montana, unincorporated community, United States
* Christina, British Columbia, Canada
* Chr ...
, ''Ishtar and Tammuz: A Babylonian myth of the seasons'' (Frances Lincoln), retold by Christopher Moore
*+
Caroline Binch
Caroline Binch (born 1947) is an English people, English illustrator and writer of Children's literature, children's books.
Career
Binch began working as a children's book illustrator in 1987, illustrating Therese Pouyanne's book ''Hippo''. S ...
, ''Down by the River'' (Heinemann), by Grace Hallworth
*
Ruth Brown
Ruth Alston Brown (; January 12, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes referred to as the " Queen of R&B". She was noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atl ...
, ''The Tale of the Monstrous Toad'' (Andersen) @
* Helen Cooper, ''The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed'' (Doubleday) @
* Susan Field, ''The Smallest Whale'' (Orchard), by
Elisabeth Beresford
Elisabeth Beresford, MBE (; 6 August 1926 – 24 December 2010), also known as Liza Beresford, was an English author of children's books, best known for creating The Wombles. Born into a literary family, she took work as a journalist, but strug ...
*
Debi Gliori
Debi Gliori (born 1959) is a Scottish writer and illustrator of children's books.
Life and career
Gliori was born in Glasgow and grew up there as an only child. She started writing children's books in 1976 and attended art school in Edinburg ...
, ''Mr Bear to the Rescue'' (Orchard) @
*
Colin McNaughton
Colin McNaughton (born 18 May 1951) is a British writer and illustrator of over seventy children's books. He is also a poet, focusing mainly on humorous children's poetry. He trained in graphic design at the Central School of Art and Design in ...
, ''Oops!'' (Andersen) @
* Korky Paul, ''The Duck That Had No Luck'' (Bodley Head), by Jonathan Long
;1997
* Ken Brown, ''Mucky Pup'' (Andersen) @
* Anthony Browne, ''Willy the Dreamer'' (Walker) @
* Peter Collington, ''A Small Miracle'' (Jonathan Cape) @ —no text
*+ Bob Graham, ''Queenie the Bantam'' (Walker) @
*
P. J. Lynch
Patrick James Lynch (born 2 March 1962), known professionally as P. J. Lynch, is an Ireland, Irish artist and illustrator of children's books. He has won a number of awards, including two Kate Greenaway Medals and three Christopher Awards ...
, ''When Jessie Came Across the Sea'' (Walker), by Amy Hest
* Clare Mackie, ''Book of Nonsense'' (Macdonald Young Books), by
Michael Rosen
Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is a British children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster and activist who has written 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009.
Early life
Michael Wayne Ro ...
*+
Charlotte Voake
Charlotte Voake (born 1957) is a Welsh children's illustrator who has won several awards including the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 1997.
Life and career
Voake was born and raised in Wales. She studied art history at the University of London ...
, ''Ginger'' (Walker) @
* Sophie Windham, ''Unicorns! Unicorns!'' (Hutchinson), by
Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean ( ; born 6 June 1951) is a British children's novelist. She has written more than 170 books, including ''Peter Pan in Scarlet'' (2004), the official sequel to ''Peter Pan'' commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, t ...
Lynch won his second medal.
;1998
* Christian Birmingham, ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' (HarperCollins), an edition of the 1950 classic by
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge Univers ...
*
Quentin Blake
Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. For his ...
, ''Zagazoo'' (Jonathan Cape) @
* Anthony Browne, ''Voices in the Park'' (Doubleday) @
*
Emma Chichester Clark
Emma Chichester Clark (born 15 October 1955) is a British children's book illustrator and author. She has published over 60 books and is best known for her series of picture books about a child's toy called Blue Kangaroo.Joanna CareyCroc on ice ( ...
, ''I Love You, Blue Kangaroo'' (Andersen) @
* Helen Cooper, ''Pumpkin Soup'' (Doubleday) @
*+
Shirley Hughes
Winifred Shirley Hughes (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred. As of 2007, she lived i ...
, ''The Lion and the Unicorn'' (Bodley Head) @
*+ Jane Simmons, ''Come on Daisy!'' (Orchard) @
Cooper won her second medal.
;1999
''This shortlist is incomplete, only the Medalist and Highly Commended (+) or Commended (–) works.'' The list was completed according to The Guardian webpage.
* Patrick Benson, The Sea-Thing Child (Walker Books)
* Christian Birmingham, Wombat Goes Walkabout (Harper Collins)
*
Helen Oxenbury
Helen Gillian Oxenbury (born 1938) is an English illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She lives in North London. She has twice won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal, the British librarians' award for illustration and been runner-up ...
, ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (Walker), an edition of the 1865 classic by Lewis Carroll
*+
Lauren Child
Lauren Margot Peachy Child (born Helen Child; 29 November 1965) is an English children's author and illustrator. She is best known for the Charlie and Lola picture book series and other book series. Her influences include E. H. Shepard, Quen ...
, ''Clarice Bean, That's Me!'' (Orchard) @ —
Clarice Bean series
The Clarice Bean series is a series of children's books written and illustrated by English author Lauren Child from 1999. The stories follow middle schooler Clarice Bean and her challenges navigating the complex ethical, social and philosophical q ...
*+
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell ( ) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the ''Observer''. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' ann ...
, ''Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page'' (Walker), "transcribed by Richard Platt, illuminated" by Chris Riddell"
*– Kevin Hawkes, '' Weslandia'' (Walker Books), by
Paul Fleischman
Paul Fleischman (born 1952) is an American writer of children's books. He and his father Sid Fleischman have both won the Newbery Medal from the American Library Association recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American lite ...
*Kathy Henderson, The Storm (Walker Books)
*Simon James, Days Like This (Walker Books)
Oxenbury won her second Greenaway Medal. ''Alice in Wonderland'' was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007. She also won her second Emil (Kurt Maschler Award), which was then discontinued (1982 to 1999).
;2000
The shortlist and winners for 2000 were as follows.
*
Ruth Brown
Ruth Alston Brown (; January 12, 1928 – November 17, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and actress, sometimes referred to as the " Queen of R&B". She was noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atl ...
Lauren Child
Lauren Margot Peachy Child (born Helen Child; 29 November 1965) is an English children's author and illustrator. She is best known for the Charlie and Lola picture book series and other book series. Her influences include E. H. Shepard, Quen ...
, ''Beware of the Storybook Wolves'' ( ) @
*
Lauren Child
Lauren Margot Peachy Child (born Helen Child; 29 November 1965) is an English children's author and illustrator. She is best known for the Charlie and Lola picture book series and other book series. Her influences include E. H. Shepard, Quen ...
Ted Dewan
TED may refer to:
Economics and finance
* TED spread between U.S. Treasuries and Eurodollar
Education
* ''Türk Eğitim Derneği'', the Turkish Education Association
** TED Ankara College Foundation Schools, Turkey
** Transvaal Education Depart ...
, ''Crispin: The Pig Who Had It All'' (Transworld) @
*
Jane Ray
Jane Ray (born 11 June 1960) is an English illustrator of more than 70 children's books. The first book Jane illustrated ''A Balloon for Grandad'' written by Nigel Gray (author), Nigel Gray, is included in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read ...
, ''Fairy Tales'' (Walker), by
Berlie Doherty
Berlie Doherty (born 6 November 1943) is an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for children's books, for which she has twice won the Carnegie Medal. She has also written novels for adults, plays for theatre an ...
''I will not'' was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007, and ranked third in public voting from that slate.
;2001
The shortlist and winners for 2001 were as follows.
* + Jez Alborough, ''Fix-it Duck'' (Picture Lions) @
*
Russell Ayto
Russell Ayto is an English illustrator of children's books including many picture books.
Biography
He was born in Chichester, Sussex in 1960 and grew up in Kidlington, Oxfordshire. After school he worked in the Histopathology Department of th ...
, ''The Witch's Children'' (Orchard Books), by
Ursula Jones
Ursula Jones is a British actor and author of children's fiction. Her picture book '' The Witch's Children and the Queen'' won a gold Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, and the sequel ''The Witch's Children Go to School'' won the inaugural Roald Dahl ...
* Nicola Bayley, ''Katje the Windmill Cat'' (Walker), by Gretchen Woelfle
*
Caroline Binch
Caroline Binch (born 1947) is an English people, English illustrator and writer of Children's literature, children's books.
Career
Binch began working as a children's book illustrator in 1987, illustrating Therese Pouyanne's book ''Hippo''. S ...
, ''Silver Shoes'' (Dorling Kindersley) @
* Helen Cooper, ''Tatty Ratty'' (Doubleday) @
* + Charles Fuge, ''Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball'' (Gullane), by Vicki Churchill
* Bob Graham ''Let's Get a Pup!'' (Walker) @
*
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell ( ) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the ''Observer''. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' ann ...
, '' Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter'' (Walker), by Richard Platt
''Pirate Diary'' is the latest "information book" to be cited for the medal and the first since 1975. It was the second in a series of four first-person journals, inaugurated by Platt and Riddell in 1999 (''Castle Diary'') and continued by Platt with another illustrator. Riddell is the third and latest illustrator to be at least commended for the Greenaway for books in a series, following Graham Oakley ( Church Mice, 1976 and 1982) and Janet Ahlberg ( Jolly Postman, 1986 and 1991).
;2002
The shortlist and winners for 2002 were as follows.
* Simon Bartram, '' Man on the Moon'' (Templar) @
*
Nick Butterworth
Nick Butterworth (born 24 May 1946) is a British author and illustrator of children's books. His picture book ''The Whisperer'' won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2005.
His Percy the Park Keeper books became an animated television series of ...
, ''Albert le Blanc'' (Collins) @
* –
Lauren Child
Lauren Margot Peachy Child (born Helen Child; 29 November 1965) is an English children's author and illustrator. She is best known for the Charlie and Lola picture book series and other book series. Her influences include E. H. Shepard, Quen ...
, ''
That Pesky Rat
''That Pesky Rat'' is a British children's picture book written and illustrated by Lauren Child and published by Orchard UK in 2002. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in ages category 6–8 years and it was commended runner up for the Kat ...
'' (Orchard Books) @
*
Lauren Child
Lauren Margot Peachy Child (born Helen Child; 29 November 1965) is an English children's author and illustrator. She is best known for the Charlie and Lola picture book series and other book series. Her influences include E. H. Shepard, Quen ...
, ''Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?'' (Hodder) @
* Bob Graham, ''Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child'' (Walker) @
*
David Melling
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
, ''The Kiss That Missed'' (Hodder) @
*
Nick Sharratt
Nick Sharratt (born 9 August 1962) is a British author and illustrator of children's books, whose work is split between illustrating for writers, most notably Jacqueline Wilson from 1991 to 2021, and Jeremy Strong, but also Giles Andreae, Julia ...
, ''Pants'' (David Fickling Books), by Giles Andrae
* Helen Ward, ''The Cockerel and the Fox'' (Templar) @ —a retelling of Chanticleer
Graham was the first winning illustrator from Australia. Child was the last "Commended" (–) or "Highly Commended" runner-up; there were 99 distinctions of both kinds in 44 years.
2003 to date
From 2003 there are usually eight books on the Greenaway shortlist. Commendations are no longer given.
2003
The shortlist and winner for 2003 were as follows.
* Anthony Browne, ''The Shape Game'' (Doubleday) @
* Alexis Deacon, ''Beegu'' (Hutchinson) @
*
Debi Gliori
Debi Gliori (born 1959) is a Scottish writer and illustrator of children's books.
Life and career
Gliori was born in Glasgow and grew up there as an only child. She started writing children's books in 1976 and attended art school in Edinburg ...
, ''Always and Forever'' (Doubleday), by Alan Durant
* Mini Grey, ''The Pea and the Princess'' (Red Fox) @ —a retelling of "
The Princess and the Pea
"The Princess and the Pea" ( da, "Prinsessen paa Ærten"; direct translation: "The Princess on the Pea") is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young woman whose royal ancestry is established by a test of her sensitivity. ...
"
*
Shirley Hughes
Winifred Shirley Hughes (16 July 1927 – 25 February 2022) was an English author and illustrator. She wrote more than fifty books, which have sold more than 11.5 million copies, and illustrated more than two hundred. As of 2007, she lived i ...
, ''Ella's Big Chance'' (Bodley Head) @ —a retelling of
Cinderella
"Cinderella",; french: link=no, Cendrillon; german: link=no, Aschenputtel) or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsi ...
*
Dave McKean
David McKean (born 29 December 1963) is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpt ...
, ''
The Wolves in the Walls
''The Wolves in the Walls'' is a book by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, published in 2003, in the United States by HarperCollins, and in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury. The book was highly praised on release, winning three awards for that y ...
'' (Bloomsbury), by
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer. ; ( Neil Richard Gaiman; born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, gr ...
* Bee Willey, ''Bob Robber and Dancing Jane'' (Jonathan Cape), by Andrew Matthews
* Chris Wormell, '' Two Frogs'' (Red Fox; Jonathan Cape) @
Hughes won her second medal.
2004
The shortlist and winner for 2004 were as follows.
* Ian Andrew, ''The Boat'' (Templar), by Helen Ward
*
Russell Ayto
Russell Ayto is an English illustrator of children's books including many picture books.
Biography
He was born in Chichester, Sussex in 1960 and grew up in Kidlington, Oxfordshire. After school he worked in the Histopathology Department of th ...
, ''One More Sheep'' (Hodder), by Mij Kelly
* Simon Bartram, ''Dougal's Deep-Sea Diary'' (Templar) @
*
Quentin Blake
Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. For his ...
Michael Rosen
Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is a British children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster and activist who has written 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009.
Early life
Michael Wayne Ro ...
*
Nick Butterworth
Nick Butterworth (born 24 May 1946) is a British author and illustrator of children's books. His picture book ''The Whisperer'' won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in 2005.
His Percy the Park Keeper books became an animated television series of ...
, ''The Whisperer'' (HarperCollins) @
* John Kelly, ''Guess Who's Coming For Dinner?'' (Templar), by Cathy Tincknell
*
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell ( ) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the ''Observer''. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' ann ...
, ''Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver"'' (Walker Books), the 1726 classic
Gulliver's Travels
''Gulliver's Travels'', or ''Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships'' is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan ...
adapted by Martin Jenkins
Riddell won his second medal.
2005
The shortlist and winner for 2005 were as follows.
*
Tony DiTerlizzi
Tony M. DiTerlizzi (born September 6, 1969) is an American fantasy artist, children's book creator, and motion picture producer.
In the gaming industry, he is best known for his work in the collectible card game '' Magic: The Gathering'' and on ...
Holly Black
Holly Black (''née'' Riggenbach; born November 10, 1971) is an American writer and editor best known for her children's and young adult fiction. Her most recent work is the ''New York Times'' bestselling young adult ''Folk of the Air'' series. ...
*
Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett (born 1972) is an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. For her debut book ''Wolves'' published in 2005 and '' Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears'' published three years later, she won the annual Kate Greenaway M ...
, ''
Wolves
The wolf (''Canis lupus''; plural, : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large Canis, canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus, subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been reco ...
'' (Pan Macmillan) @
* Mini Grey, ''Traction Man Is Here'' (Red Fox) @
*
Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Brendan Jeffers (born 1977) is a Northern Irish artist, illustrator and writer who now lives and works in Brooklyn. He went to the integrated secondary school Hazelwood College, then graduated from the University of Ulster in 2001.
...
, ''
Lost and Found
A lost and found (American English) or lost property (British English), or lost articles (also Canadian English) is an office in a public building or area where people can go to retrieve lost articles that may have been found by others. Frequen ...
'' (HarperCollins) @
*
Dave McKean
David McKean (born 29 December 1963) is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpt ...
, ''Mirrormask'' (Bloomsbury), by
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer. ; ( Neil Richard Gaiman; born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, gr ...
*
Jane Ray
Jane Ray (born 11 June 1960) is an English illustrator of more than 70 children's books. The first book Jane illustrated ''A Balloon for Grandad'' written by Nigel Gray (author), Nigel Gray, is included in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read ...
, ''Jinnie Ghost'' (Frances Lincoln), by
Berlie Doherty
Berlie Doherty (born 6 November 1943) is an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for children's books, for which she has twice won the Carnegie Medal. She has also written novels for adults, plays for theatre an ...
*
David Roberts David or Dave Roberts may refer to:
Arts and literature
* David Roberts (painter) (1796–1864), Scottish painter
* David Roberts (art collector), Scottish contemporary art collector
* David Roberts (novelist), English editor and mystery writer ...
, ''Little Red: A Fizzingly Good Yarn'' (Abrams Books), by Lynn Roberts
* Rob Scotton, ''
Russell the Sheep
''Russell the Sheep'' is a 2005 children’s picture book by Rob Scotton, also the creator of '' Splat the Cat''. The book tells the story of an insomniac sheep.
Plot
Russell is a sheep that has trouble falling asleep sometimes. Perhaps he ne ...
'' (HarperCollins) @
''Wolves'' by Emily Gravett in its U.S. edition was Gravett's first book as author or illustrator, one year out of school. She won the 49th Greenaway Medal, awarded in the 51st year, called fifty for the anniversary celebration in 2007.
Year of presentation after 2006.
2007
The shortlist and winner for 2007 were as follows.
*
Ross Collins
Ross Alexander Collins (April 25, 1880 – July 14, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Born in Collinsville, Mississippi, Collins attended the public schools of Meridian, Mississippi, and Mississippi Agricultural and Mechan ...
, ''The Elephantom'' (Templar) @
*
Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett (born 1972) is an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. For her debut book ''Wolves'' published in 2005 and '' Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears'' published three years later, she won the annual Kate Greenaway M ...
, ''
Orange Pear Apple Bear
''Orange Pear Apple Bear'' is a children's book written by award-winning author and illustrator Emily Gravett. Throughout the book only the four words "orange, pear, apple" and "bear" are used, with the exception of a single use of the word "there ...
'' (Pan Macmillan) @ — four words only
* Mini Grey, ''
The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon
''The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon'' is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Mini Grey, published by Jonathan Cape in 2006. It won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the professional librarians, recognising the year's ...
'' (Jonathan Cape) @
* John Kelly and Cathy Tincknell, ''Scoop! An Exclusive by Monty Molenski'' (Templar) @@
*
Catherine Rayner
Catherine Rayner is an Edinburgh-based British illustrator and writer of children's books. She was born in Harrogate in 1982, and grew up in Boston Spa, later studying at Leeds College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art.
She won the Kate Gre ...
, ''Augustus and His Smile'' (Little Tiger) @
*
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell ( ) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the ''Observer''. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' ann ...
, ''
The Emperor of Absurdia
''The Emperor of Absurdia'' is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Chris Riddell, published in 2006. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Silver Award and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal
The Kate Greenaway Med ...
'' (Pan Macmillan) @
2008
The shortlist and winner for 2008 were as follows.
* Anthony Browne, ''Silly Billy'' (Walker Books) @
*
Polly Dunbar
Polly Dunbar (born 1977) is an English author-illustrator.
She is best known for her self-illustrated books ''Penguin'', the ''Tilly and Friends'' series (which became a BBC children's television series) and ''Hello, Mum'' – an illustrated mem ...
, ''
Penguin
Penguins (order (biology), order List of Sphenisciformes by population, Sphenisciformes , family (biology), family Spheniscidae ) are a group of Water bird, aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: on ...
'' (Walker Books) @
*
Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett (born 1972) is an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. For her debut book ''Wolves'' published in 2005 and '' Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears'' published three years later, she won the annual Kate Greenaway M ...
, ''
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears
''Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears'' is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Emily Gravett, published by Macmillan in 2007. It won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the professional librarians as the year's best-illustrated c ...
'' (Pan Macmillan) @
*
Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett (born 1972) is an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. For her debut book ''Wolves'' published in 2005 and '' Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears'' published three years later, she won the annual Kate Greenaway M ...
, ''Monkey and Me'' (Pan Macmillan) @
*
Jane Ray
Jane Ray (born 11 June 1960) is an English illustrator of more than 70 children's books. The first book Jane illustrated ''A Balloon for Grandad'' written by Nigel Gray (author), Nigel Gray, is included in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read ...
, ''The Lost Happy Endings'' (Bloomsbury), by
Carol Ann Duffy
Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, resigning in 2019. She was the first ...
*
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell ( ) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the ''Observer''. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' ann ...
, ''
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
''Ottoline and the Yellow Cat'' is a children's book by Chris Riddell, published in 2007. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award and the Red House Children's Book Award for Younger Readers. It was also sh ...
'' (Pan Macmillan) @
*
Ed Vere
Ed Vere is a British writer and illustrator of children's books. He won the Highland Children's Book Award in 2007 for his book, ''The Getaway'' and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing his 2 ...
, ''Banana!'' (Puffin Books) @
Gravett won her second medal for her fourth book, with cover title ''Little Mouse's Emily Gravett's Big Book of Fears''.
2009
The shortlist and winner for 2009 were as follows.
* Angela Barrett, ''The Snow Goose'' (Hutchinson), an edition of the 1941 novella by
Paul Gallico
Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist and short story and sports writer.Ivins, Molly,, ''The New York Times'', July 17, 1976. Retrieved Oct. 25, 2020. Many of his works were adapted for motion pictu ...
* Marc Craste, ''Varmints'' (Templar), by Helen Ward
* Thomas Docherty, ''Little Boat'' (Templar) @
* Bob Graham, ''How to Heal a Broken Wing'' (Walker Books) @
*
Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Brendan Jeffers (born 1977) is a Northern Irish artist, illustrator and writer who now lives and works in Brooklyn. He went to the integrated secondary school Hazelwood College, then graduated from the University of Ulster in 2001.
...
, ''The Way Back Home'' (HarperCollins) @
*
Dave McKean
David McKean (born 29 December 1963) is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpt ...
, ''The Savage'' (Walker Books), by
David Almond
David Almond (born 15 May 1951) is a British author who has written many novels for children and young adults from 1998, each one receiving critical acclaim.
He is one of thirty children's writers, and one of three from the UK, to win the bienn ...
*
Catherine Rayner
Catherine Rayner is an Edinburgh-based British illustrator and writer of children's books. She was born in Harrogate in 1982, and grew up in Boston Spa, later studying at Leeds College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art.
She won the Kate Gre ...
, ''Harris Finds His Feet'' (Little Tiger) @
* Chris Wormell, ''Molly and the Night Monster'' (Jonathan Cape) @
2010
The shortlist and winner for 2010 were as follows.
* Grahame Baker-Smith, ''Leon and the Place Between'' (Templar), by Angela McAllister
*
Freya Blackwood
Freya Blackwood (born 1975) is an Australian illustrator and special effects artist. She worked on special effects for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy from 2001 to 2003 and won the Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration ...
, ''Harry and Hopper'' (Scholastic), by
Margaret Wild
Margaret Wild (born 1948) is an Australian children's writer. She has written more than 40 books for children. Her work has been published around the world and has won several awards. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Childre ...
*
Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Brendan Jeffers (born 1977) is a Northern Irish artist, illustrator and writer who now lives and works in Brooklyn. He went to the integrated secondary school Hazelwood College, then graduated from the University of Ulster in 2001.
...
, ''The Great Paper Caper'' (HarperCollins) @
*
Satoshi Kitamura
is a Japanese children's picture book author and illustrator. In 1983, he received the Mother Goose Award for the Most Exciting Newcomer to British Illustration for ''Angry Arthur'' (written by Hiawyn Oram). In 2000, his book, ''Sheep in Wolves' ...
, ''Millie's Marvellous Hat'' (Andersen) @
*
Dave McKean
David McKean (born 29 December 1963) is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpt ...
, ''Crazy Hair'' (Bloomsbury), by
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer. ; ( Neil Richard Gaiman; born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, gr ...
*
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell ( ) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the ''Observer''. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' ann ...
, ''
The Graveyard Book
''The Graveyard Book'' is a young adult novel by the English author Neil Gaiman, simultaneously published in Britain and America in 2008. ''The Graveyard Book'' traces the story of the boy Nobody "Bod" Owens who is adopted and reared by the s ...
'' (Bloomsbury), by Neil Gaiman
*
David Roberts David or Dave Roberts may refer to:
Arts and literature
* David Roberts (painter) (1796–1864), Scottish painter
* David Roberts (art collector), Scottish contemporary art collector
* David Roberts (novelist), English editor and mystery writer ...
, ''The Dunderheads'' (Walker Books), by
Paul Fleischman
Paul Fleischman (born 1952) is an American writer of children's books. He and his father Sid Fleischman have both won the Newbery Medal from the American Library Association recognizing the year's "most distinguished contribution to American lite ...
* Viviane Schwarz, ''There Are Cats in This Book'' (Walker Books) @
2011
The shortlist and winner for 2011 were as follows.
* Grahame Baker-Smith, ''FArTHER'' (Templar) @
* Anthony Browne, ''Me and You'' (Doubleday) @
* Bob Graham, ''April Underhill Tooth Fairy'' (Walker Books) @
* Mini Grey, ''Jim'' (Jonathan Cape), by
Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (, ; 27 July 187016 July 1953) was a Franco-English writer and historian of the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. H ...
, 1907
*
Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Brendan Jeffers (born 1977) is a Northern Irish artist, illustrator and writer who now lives and works in Brooklyn. He went to the integrated secondary school Hazelwood College, then graduated from the University of Ulster in 2001.
...
, ''The Heart and the Bottle'' (HarperCollins) @
* Kristin Oftedal, ''Big Bear, Little Brother'' (Pan Macmillan), by Carl Norac
*
Catherine Rayner
Catherine Rayner is an Edinburgh-based British illustrator and writer of children's books. She was born in Harrogate in 1982, and grew up in Boston Spa, later studying at Leeds College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art.
She won the Kate Gre ...
, ''Ernest'' (Pan Macmillan) @
* Juan Wijngaard, ''Cloud Tea Monkeys'' (Walker Books), by
Mal Peet
Malcolm Charles Peet (5 October 1947 – 2 March 2015) was an English author and illustrator best known for young adult fiction. He has won several honours including the Brandford Boase, the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize, British child ...
and Elspeth Graham
2012
The shortlist and winner for 2012 were as follows.
*
Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett (born 1972) is an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. For her debut book ''Wolves'' published in 2005 and '' Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears'' published three years later, she won the annual Kate Greenaway M ...
, ''Wolf Won't Bite!'' (Pan Macmillan) @
*
Petr Horáček
Petr Horáček (born 11 January 1974) is a Czech boxer. He competed in the men's super heavyweight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and com ...
, ''Puffin Peter'' (Walker Books) @
*
Jim Kay
Jim Kay (born 4 April 1974) is a British illustrator and printmaker from Northamptonshire, England, who won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2012 for his illustrations for the book ''A Monster Calls'' by Patrick Ness. He was selected personally by J ...
, ''
A Monster Calls
''A Monster Calls'' is a low fantasy novel written for young adults by Patrick Ness (from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd) illustrated by Jim Kay and published by Walker in 2011. Set in present-day England, it features a boy who struggles ...
'' (Walker Books), by
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness (born 17 October 1971) is an American-British author, journalist, lecturer, and screenwriter. Born in the United States, Ness moved to London and holds dual citizenship. He is best known for his books for young adults, including t ...
*
Dave McKean
David McKean (born 29 December 1963) is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpt ...
, ''Slog's Dad'' (Walker Books), by
David Almond
David Almond (born 15 May 1951) is a British author who has written many novels for children and young adults from 1998, each one receiving critical acclaim.
He is one of thirty children's writers, and one of three from the UK, to win the bienn ...
*
Catherine Rayner
Catherine Rayner is an Edinburgh-based British illustrator and writer of children's books. She was born in Harrogate in 1982, and grew up in Boston Spa, later studying at Leeds College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art.
She won the Kate Gre ...
, ''
Solomon Crocodile
''Solomon Crocodile'' is a 2011 picture book by Catherine Rayner. It is about a mischievous crocodile called Solomon who wants to play with various birds and animals but just annoys them until he finally meets another playful crocodile.
Reception ...
'' (Pan Macmillan) @
*
Rob Ryan
Robert Allen Ryan (born December 13, 1962) is an American football coach who is currently the senior defensive assistant for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). Ryan has served as a defensive coordinator or assistant co ...
, ''The Gift'' (Barefoot Books), by
Carol Ann Duffy
Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, resigning in 2019. She was the first ...
* Viviane Schwarz, ''There Are No Cats in This Book'' (Walker Books) @
* Vicky White, ''Can We Save the Tiger?'' (Walker Books), by Martin Jenkins —nonfiction
Kay and Ness won both the Greenaway and Carnegie Medals for ''A Monster Calls'', the first such double. Two illustrators of Carnegie Medal-winning books had been runners-up for the Greenaway, Charles Keeping (''The God Beneath the Sea'', 1970) and Michael Foreman (''City of Gold'', 1980).
2013
The shortlist and winner for 2013 were as follows.
* Rebecca Cobb, ''Lunchtime'' (Pan Macmillan)
*
Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett (born 1972) is an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. For her debut book ''Wolves'' published in 2005 and '' Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears'' published three years later, she won the annual Kate Greenaway M ...
, ''Again!'' (Pan Macmillan)
* Chris Haughton, ''Oh No, George!'' (Walker Books)
*
Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen (born November 29, 1981) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing the 2012 ...
, ''I Want My Hat Back'' (Walker Books)
* Chris Mould, ''Pirates 'n' Pistols'' (Hodder)
*
Helen Oxenbury
Helen Gillian Oxenbury (born 1938) is an English illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She lives in North London. She has twice won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal, the British librarians' award for illustration and been runner-up ...
, ''King Jack and the Dragon'' (Puffin Books), by
Peter Bently
Peter Bently (born 1960) is a British children's writer. He is best known for his rhyming picture books including ''The Great Dog Bottom Swap'' (with Mei Matsuoka), ''Meet the Parents'' (with Sara Ogilvie), ''The Shark in the Dark'' (with Ben ...
* Levi Pinfold, ''Black Dog'' (Templar)
* Salvatore Rubbino, ''Just Ducks!'' (Walker Books), by Nicola Davies
2014
The shortlist and winner for 2014 were as follows.
* Rebecca Cobb, ''The Paper Dolls'' (Pan Macmillan), by
Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson (born Julia Catherine Shields; born ) is an English writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, ...
* Olivia Gill, ''Where My Wellies Take Me'' (Templar), by
Michael Morpurgo
Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo (''né'' Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as ''War Horse'' (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytellin ...
and
Clare Morpurgo
Clare, Lady Morpurgo ('' née'' Lane) is a philanthropist. She is the wife of British author Sir Michael Morpurgo and the eldest daughter of Sir Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books.
Morpurgo founded the charity Farms for City Children
Farms ...
*
Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Brendan Jeffers (born 1977) is a Northern Irish artist, illustrator and writer who now lives and works in Brooklyn. He went to the integrated secondary school Hazelwood College, then graduated from the University of Ulster in 2001.
...
, ''The Day the Crayons Quit'' (HarperCollins), by Drew Daywalt
*
Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen (born November 29, 1981) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing the 2012 ...
, ''This Is Not My Hat'' (Walker Books)
*
Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen (born November 29, 1981) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing the 2012 ...
, ''The Dark'' (Orchard Books), by
Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970). Handler has published several children's books under the name, most notably ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'', which has sold over 60 million copies and s ...
*
Dave McKean
David McKean (born 29 December 1963) is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculpt ...
, ''
Mouse Bird Snake Wolf
''Mouse Bird Snake Wolf'' is a 2013 graphic novel, written by David Almond and illustrated by Dave McKean, David McKean. It is about three children who create animals from inanimate objects.
Reception
A ''The Guardian, Guardian'' reviewer describe ...
'' (Walker Books), by
David Almond
David Almond (born 15 May 1951) is a British author who has written many novels for children and young adults from 1998, each one receiving critical acclaim.
He is one of thirty children's writers, and one of three from the UK, to win the bienn ...
* Birgitta Sif, ''Oliver'' (Walker Books)
Klassen, a Canadian, won the 2013
Caldecott Medal
The Randolph Caldecott Medal, frequently shortened to just the Caldecott, annually recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It is awarded to the illustrator by the Association for Library Service ...
for ''This Is Not My Hat'', recognising the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". This marks the first time that the same book has won both the Greenaway and Caldecott medals and Klassen is the first Greenaway winner from Canada.Diaz, Shelley (26 June 2014) "Klassen and Brooks Take UK's Greenaway and Carnegie Medals" ''
School Library Journal
''School Library Journal'' (''SLJ'') is an American monthly magazine containing reviews and other articles for school librarians, media specialists, and public librarians who work with young people. Articles cover a wide variety of topics, with ...
'' (slj.com). Retrieved 2014-06-29.
2015
The shortlist and winner for 2015 were as follows.
* Laura Carlin, ''The Promise'' (Walker Books), by Nicola Davies
* Alexis Deacon, ''Jim's Lion'' (Walker Books), by
Russell Hoban
Russell Conwell Hoban (February 4, 1925 – December 13, 2011) was an American expatriate writer. His works span many genres, including fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magical realism, poetry, and children's books.
He lived in ...
*
William Grill
William Grill is a British illustrator, whose first children's book, ''Shackleton's Journey'', depicting Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2015.
His second book is titled ''The Wolves of ...
, ''Shackleton's Journey'' (Flying Eye Books)
*
John Higgins
John Higgins, (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player. He has won 31 career ranking titles, placing him in third position on the all-time list of ranking event winners, behind Ronnie O'Sullivan (39) and Stephen Hendry ( ...
and Marc Olivent, ''Dark Satanic Mills'' (Walker Books), by
Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick (8 April 1968 – 15 November 2022) was a British writer, illustrator and musician. He published novels such as '' Floodland'' (2001; winner of the Branford Boase Award) and '' The Dark Horse'' (2002; shortlisted for The Guard ...
and Julian Sedgwick
*
Catherine Rayner
Catherine Rayner is an Edinburgh-based British illustrator and writer of children's books. She was born in Harrogate in 1982, and grew up in Boston Spa, later studying at Leeds College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art.
She won the Kate Gre ...
, ''Smelly Louie'' (Pan Macmillan)
*
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell ( ) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the ''Observer''. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' ann ...
, ''Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse'' (Pan Macmillan)
*
David Roberts David or Dave Roberts may refer to:
Arts and literature
* David Roberts (painter) (1796–1864), Scottish painter
* David Roberts (art collector), Scottish contemporary art collector
* David Roberts (novelist), English editor and mystery writer ...
, ''Tinder'' (Orion Books), by
Sally Gardner
Sally Gardner is a British children writer and illustrator. She won both the Costa Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal for ''Maggot Moon'' (Hot Key Books, 2012). Under her pseudonym Wray Delaney she has also written adult novels.
*
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated inc ...
, ''Rules of Summer'' (Lothian Publishing)
2016
The shortlist and winner for 2016 were as follows.
* Anthony Browne, ''Willy's Stories'' (Walker Books)
* Ross Collins, ''There's a Bear on My Chair'' (Nosy Crow)
*
Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Brendan Jeffers (born 1977) is a Northern Irish artist, illustrator and writer who now lives and works in Brooklyn. He went to the integrated secondary school Hazelwood College, then graduated from the University of Ulster in 2001.
...
, ''Once Upon an Alphabet'' (HarperCollins)
*
Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen (born November 29, 1981) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing the 2012 ...
Mac Barnett
Mac Barnett is an American writer of children's books living in Oakland, California.
Barnett graduated from Pomona College, where he studied under the writer David Foster Wallace.Jackie Morris
Jackie Morris (born 1961) is a British writer and illustrator. She was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2016 and won it in 2019 for her illustration of ''The Lost Words'', voted the most beautiful book of 2016 by UK booksellers. She ...
, ''Something About a Bear'' (Frances Lincoln)
*
Helen Oxenbury
Helen Gillian Oxenbury (born 1938) is an English illustrator and writer of children's picture books. She lives in North London. She has twice won the annual Kate Greenaway Medal, the British librarians' award for illustration and been runner-up ...
, ''Captain Jack and the Pirates'' (Puffin Books), by
Peter Bently
Peter Bently (born 1960) is a British children's writer. He is best known for his rhyming picture books including ''The Great Dog Bottom Swap'' (with Mei Matsuoka), ''Meet the Parents'' (with Sara Ogilvie), ''The Shark in the Dark'' (with Ben ...
*
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell ( ) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the ''Observer''. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' ann ...
, ''The Sleeper and the Spindle'' (Bloomsbury), by
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer. ; ( Neil Richard Gaiman; born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, gr ...
*
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric.
Early life and education
Born in Woodford, Essex, England, Smith was the son of merchant Robert Smith (1739–1827) and Maria Olier (1750–1801), ...
, ''Footpath Flowers'' (Walker Books), by
JonArno Lawson
JonArno Lawson is a Canadian writer who has published many books for children and adults, was born in Hamilton, Ontario and raised in nearby Dundas. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife and three children.
Career and education
Lawson h ...
Chris Riddell became the first triple winner in the history of the award, having previously won in 2001 and 2004.
2017
The shortlist and winner for 2017 were as follows.
* Dieter Braun, ''Wild Animals of the North'' (Flying Eye Books)
*
Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett (born 1972) is an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. For her debut book ''Wolves'' published in 2005 and '' Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears'' published three years later, she won the annual Kate Greenaway M ...
, ''Tidy'' (Two Hoots)
*
William Grill
William Grill is a British illustrator, whose first children's book, ''Shackleton's Journey'', depicting Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2015.
His second book is titled ''The Wolves of ...
, ''The Wolves of Currumpaw'' (Flying Eye Books)
*
Jim Kay
Jim Kay (born 4 April 1974) is a British illustrator and printmaker from Northamptonshire, England, who won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2012 for his illustrations for the book ''A Monster Calls'' by Patrick Ness. He was selected personally by J ...
, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (Bloomsbury), by
J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling ( "rolling"; born 31 July 1965), also known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and Philanthropy, philanthropist. She wrote ''Harry Potter'', a seven-volume children's fantasy series published from 1997 to ...
*
Chris Riddell
Chris Riddell ( ) (born 13 April 1962) is a South African-born British illustrator and occasional writer of children's books and a political cartoonist for the ''Observer''. He has won three Kate Greenaway Medals - the British librarians' ann ...
, ''A Great Big Cuddle'' (Walker Books), by
Michael Rosen
Michael Wayne Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is a British children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster and activist who has written 140 books. He served as Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009.
Early life
Michael Wayne Ro ...
Brian Selznick
Brian Selznick (born July 14, 1966) is an American illustrator and author best known as the writer of ''The Invention of Hugo Cabret'' (2007), '' Wonderstruck'' (2011), ''The Marvels'' (2015) and ''Kaleidoscope'' (2021). He won the 2008 Caldecot ...
, ''The Marvels'' (Scholastic)
*
Lane Smith
Walter Lane Smith III (April 29, 1936 – June 13, 2005) was an American actor. His well-known roles included newspaper editor Perry White in the ABC series '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'', Walter Warner in '' Son in Law'', co ...
, ''There Is a Tribe of Kids'' (Two Hoots)
2018
The shortlist and winner for 2018 were as follows.
* Laura Carlin, ''King of the Sky'' (Walker Books), by Nicola Davies
*
Debi Gliori
Debi Gliori (born 1959) is a Scottish writer and illustrator of children's books.
Life and career
Gliori was born in Glasgow and grew up there as an only child. She started writing children's books in 1976 and attended art school in Edinburg ...
, ''Night Shift'' (Hot Key Books)
* Petr Horáček, ''A First Book of Animals'' (Walker Books), by Nicola Davies
* Levi Pinfold, ''The Song from Somewhere Else'' (Bloomsbury), by A.F. Harrold
*
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric.
Early life and education
Born in Woodford, Essex, England, Smith was the son of merchant Robert Smith (1739–1827) and Maria Olier (1750–1801), ...
, ''Town Is by the Sea'' (Walker Books), by Joanne Schwartz
* Pam Smy, ''Thornhill'' (David Fickling Books)
* Britta Teckentrup, ''Under the Same Sky'' (Little Tiger)
2019
The shortlist and winner for 2019 were as follows.
*
Jon Klassen
Jon Klassen (born November 29, 1981) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books and an animator. He won both the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing the 2012 ...
, ''The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse'' (Walker Books), by
Mac Barnett
Mac Barnett is an American writer of children's books living in Oakland, California.
Barnett graduated from Pomona College, where he studied under the writer David Foster Wallace.Rebecca Cobb, ''The Day War Came'' (Walker Books), by Nicola Davies
* Eric Fan and Terry Fan, ''Ocean Meets Sky'' (Frances Lincoln)
* Maria Gulemetova, ''Beyond the Fence'' (Child's Play)
* Jessica Love, ''Julian is a Mermaid'' (Walker Books)
* Poonam Mistry, ''You're Safe With Me'' (Lantana Publishing), by Chitra Soundar
*
Jackie Morris
Jackie Morris (born 1961) is a British writer and illustrator. She was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2016 and won it in 2019 for her illustration of ''The Lost Words'', voted the most beautiful book of 2016 by UK booksellers. She ...
, ''The Lost Words'' (Hamish Hamilton), by Robert Macfarlane
* David Roberts, ''Suffragette: The Battle for Equality'' (Two Hoots)
2020
The shortlist and winner for 2020 were as follows.
* Poonam Mistry, ''You're Snug with Me'' (Lantana Publishing), by Chitra Soundar
* Chris Mould, ''The Iron Man'' (Faber & Faber), by
Ted Hughes
Edward James "Ted" Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest wri ...
* Chris Naylor-Ballesteros, ''The Suitcase'' (Nosy Crow)
*
Kadir Nelson
Kadir Nelson (May 15, 1974) is a Los Angeles–based painter, illustrator, and author who is best known for his paintings often featured on the covers of ''The New Yorker'' magazine, and album covers for Michael Jackson and Drake. His work is foc ...
, ''The Undefeated'' (Andersen Press), by
Kwame Alexander
Kwame Alexander (born August 21, 1968) is an American writer of poetry and children's fiction. His verse novel ''The Crossover'' won the 2015 Newbery Medal and was selected as an Honor book for the Coretta Scott King Award.
Personal life and educ ...
* Levi Pinfold, ''The Dam'' (Walker Books), by
David Almond
David Almond (born 15 May 1951) is a British author who has written many novels for children and young adults from 1998, each one receiving critical acclaim.
He is one of thirty children's writers, and one of three from the UK, to win the bienn ...
* Júlia Sardà, ''Mary and Frankenstein'' (Andersen Press), by Linda Bailey
*
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated inc ...
, ''Tales from the Inner City'' (Walker Books)
* Beth Waters, ''Child of St Kilda'' (Child's Play)
2021
The shortlist and winner for 2021 were as follows.
* Sharon King-Chai, ''Starbird'' (Two Hoots)
* Sara Lundberg, ''The Bird Within Me'', translated by B J Epstein (Book Island)
* Kate Milner, ''It's A No-Money Day'' (Barrington Stoke)
* Poonam Mistry, ''How The Stars Came To Be'' (Tate Publishing)
*
Pete Oswald
Pete Oswald (born July 8, 1980) is a #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator and production designer, best known for ''The Angry Birds Movie'' film series and ''ParaNorman''. He is also known for his work as a children's book author and illus ...
, ''Hike'' (Walker Books)
* David Ouimet, ''I Go Quiet'' (Canongate)
*
Catherine Rayner
Catherine Rayner is an Edinburgh-based British illustrator and writer of children's books. She was born in Harrogate in 1982, and grew up in Boston Spa, later studying at Leeds College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art.
She won the Kate Gre ...
, ''Arlo The Lion Who Couldn't Sleep'' (Pan Macmillan)
*
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric.
Early life and education
Born in Woodford, Essex, England, Smith was the son of merchant Robert Smith (1739–1827) and Maria Olier (1750–1801), ...
, ''Small In The City'' (Walker Books)
2022
The shortlist and winner for 2022 were as follows.
* George Butler, ''Drawn Across Borders'' (Walker Books)
* Mariachiara Di Giorgio, ''The Midnight Fair'' (Walker Books)
*
Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett (born 1972) is an English author and illustrator of children's picture books. For her debut book ''Wolves'' published in 2005 and '' Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears'' published three years later, she won the annual Kate Greenaway M ...
, ''Too Much Stuff'' (Pan Macmillan)
*
Danica Novgorodoff
Danica Novgorodoff is a graphic novelist, painter, illustrator, graphic designer, and writer from Brooklyn, New York and Louisville, Kentucky. She was awarded a 2015 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Literature, was named Sarabande B ...
, ''
Long Way Down
''Long Way Down'' is a television series and book documenting a motorcycle journey undertaken in 2007 by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, from John o' Groats in Scotland through eighteen countries in Europe and Africa to Cape Town in South ...
'' (Faber)
*
Christian Robinson
Christian Robinson (born August 2, 1986) is an American illustrator of children's books and an animator. He is based in Sacramento, California and has worked with The Sesame Street Workshop and Pixar Animation Studios. He graduated from the Cali ...
, ''Milo Imagines the World'' (Pan Macmillan)
*
Yu Rong
Yu Rong (郁蓉) is a Chinese illustrator of children's picture books, especially known for her use of papercutting artwork.
Biography
Born in China, Yu Rong first trained as a primary school teacher, then studied for a BA in Chinese Painting ...
, ''Shu Lin's Grandpa'' (Otter-Barry Books)
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Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric.
Early life and education
Born in Woodford, Essex, England, Smith was the son of merchant Robert Smith (1739–1827) and Maria Olier (1750–1801), ...
, ''I Talk Like a River'' (Walker Books)
* Peter Van den Ende, ''The Wanderer'' (Pushkin Children's Books)
Kurt Maschler Award
The Kurt Maschler Award (1982 to 1999) was a British literary award that annually recognised one "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other." Winning authors and ill ...
(the Emil)
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Mother Goose Award
The Mother Goose Award was an award annually presented to "the most exciting newcomer to British children's book illustration."
It was inaugurated in 1979 and last awarded in 1999. Sponsored by Books for Children booksellers, award winners receive ...
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Caldecott Medal
The Randolph Caldecott Medal, frequently shortened to just the Caldecott, annually recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It is awarded to the illustrator by the Association for Library Service ...
– the premier American Library Association award for ''picture book'' illustration
* Comics Literacy Awareness