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2005

The Kate Greenaway Medal

The Kate Greenaway Medal, named for the nineteenth-century artist, is awarded each year for " a book of outstanding artistic quality" for children or young people. Since 2000, the winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal has also received the Colin Mears Award.  To learn more, please visit the CILIP web site.

2004

 
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver by Jonathan Swift, abridged by Martin Jenkins, illustrated by Chris Riddell

2003

 
Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella by Shirley Hughes

2002

 
Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child by Bob Graham

2001

 
Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter by Richard Platt, illustrated by Chris Riddell

2000

 
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child

1999

 
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury

1998

 
Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper

1997

 
When Jessie Came across the Sea by Amy Hest, illustrated by P. J. Lynch

1996

 
The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed by Helen Cooper

1995

 
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski, illustrated by P. J. Lynch

1994

Way Home by Gregory Rogers

1993

 
Black Ships before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff, illustrated by Alan Lee

1992

 
Zoo by Anthony Browne

1991

 
The Jolly Christmas Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

1990

 
Whales' Song by Dyan Sheldon, illustrated by Gary Blythe

1989

War Boy: A Country Childhood by Michael Foreman

1988

 
Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? by Martin Waddell, illustrated by Barbara Firth

1987

 
Crafty Chameleon by Adrienne Kennaway

1986

 
Snow White in New York  by Fiona French

1985

 
Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady retold by Selina Hastings, illustrated by Juan Winjingaard

1984

 
Hiawatha's Childhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrated by Errol Le Cain

1983

Gorilla by Anthony Browne

1982

Long Neck and Thunderfoot  and  Sleeping Beauty and Other Favorite Fairy Tales by Michael Foreman

1981

 
Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, illustrated by Charles Keeping

1980

 
Mister Magnolia (Mini Treasure) by Quentin Blake

1979

 
Haunted House by Jan Pienkowski

1978

 
Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet Ahlberg

1977

 
Dogger by Shirley Hughes

1976

The Post Office Cat by Gail E. Haley

1975

Horses in Battle and Mishka by Victor Ambrus

1974

 
Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins

1973

 
Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs

1972

The Woodcutter's Duck by Krystyna Turska

1971

The Kingdom Under the Sea by Jan Pienkowski

1970

 
Mr. Gumpy's Outing by John Burningham

1969

The Quangle Wangle's Hat and The Dragon of An Ordinary Family by Helen Oxenbury

1968

Dictionary of Chivalry by Pauline Baynes

1967

Charlotte and the Golden Canary by Charles Keeping

1966

Mother Goose Treasury by Raymond Briggs

1965

The Three Poor Tailors by Victor Ambrus

1964

Shakespeare's Theatre by C.W. Hodges

1963

Borka: The Adventures of A Goose with No Feathers by John Burningham

1962

A.B.C. by Brian Wildsmith

1961

Mrs. Cockle's Cat by Antony Maitland

1960

Old Winkle and the Seagulls  by Gerald Rose

1959

Kashtanka and A Bundle of Ballads by

William Stobbs

1958

NO AWARD PRESENTED

1957

Mrs. Easter and the Storks by V.H. Drummond

1956

Tim All Alone by Edward Ardizzone

1955

NO AWARD PRESENTED