| 2019 |
Jackie Morris[7] |
The Lost Words |
Robert Macfarlane |
| 2018 |
Sydney Smith |
Town Is by the Sea |
Joanne Schwartz |
| 2017 |
Lane Smith |
There Is a Tribe of Kids |
— |
| 2016 |
Chris Riddell |
The Sleeper and the Spindle |
Neil Gaiman |
| 2015 |
William Grill |
Shackleton's Journey |
— |
| 2014 |
Jon Klassen |
This Is Not My Hat |
— |
| 2013 |
Levi Pinfold |
Black Dog |
— |
| 2012 |
Jim Kay |
A Monster Calls |
Patrick Ness |
| 2011 |
Grahame Baker-Smith |
FArTHER |
— |
| 2010 |
Freya Blackwood |
Harry and Hopper |
Margaret Wild |
| 2009 |
Catherine Rayner |
Harris Finds His Feet |
— |
| 2008 |
Emily Gravett |
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears |
— |
| 2007 |
Mini Grey |
The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon |
— |
| 2006 The award date is the year of publication before 2006, the year of presentation after 2006. |
| 2005 |
Emily Gravett |
Wolves |
— |
| 2004 |
Chris Riddell |
Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver" |
Jonathan Swift (1726) adapted |
| 2003 |
Shirley Hughes |
Ella's Big Chance |
— (Cinderella adapted) |
| 2002 |
Bob Graham |
Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child |
— |
| 2001 |
Chris Riddell |
Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter |
Richard Platt
(informational) |
| 2000 * |
Lauren Child |
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato |
— |
| 1999 * |
Helen Oxenbury |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll (1865) |
| 1998 |
Helen Cooper |
Pumpkin Soup |
— |
| 1997 |
P. J. Lynch |
When Jessie Came Across the Sea |
Amy Hest |
| 1996 |
Helen Cooper |
The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed |
— |
| 1995 |
P. J. Lynch |
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey |
Susan Wojciechowski |
| 1994 |
Gregory Rogers |
Way Home |
Libby Hathorn |
| 1993 |
Alan Lee |
Black Ships Before Troy |
Rosemary Sutcliff |
| 1992 |
Anthony Browne |
Zoo |
— |
| 1991 |
Janet Ahlberg |
The Jolly Christmas Postman |
Allan Ahlberg |
| 1990 |
Gary Blythe |
The Whales' Song |
Dyan Sheldon |
| 1989 |
Michael Foreman |
War Boy: A Country Childhood |
— |
| 1988 |
Barbara Firth |
Can't You Sleep Little Bear? |
Martin Waddell |
| 1987 |
Adrienne Kennaway |
Crafty Chameleon |
Mwenye Hadithi |
| 1986 |
Fiona French |
Snow White in New York |
— |
| 1985 |
Juan Wijngaard |
Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady |
retold by
Selena Hastings |
| 1984 |
Errol Le Cain |
Hiawatha's Childhood |
Longfellow (1855) |
| 1983 * |
Anthony Browne |
Gorilla |
— |
| 1982 |
Michael Foreman |
Long Neck and Thunder Foot (and)
Sleeping Beauty and other favourite fairy tales |
Helen Piers (and)
traditional |
| 1981 * |
Charles Keeping |
The Highwayman |
Alfred Noyes (1906) |
| 1980 * |
Quentin Blake |
Mr Magnolia |
— |
| 1979 |
Jan Pienkowski |
Haunted House |
— |
| 1978 * |
Janet Ahlberg |
Each Peach Pear Plum |
Allan Ahlberg |
| 1977 * |
Shirley Hughes |
Dogger |
— |
| 1976 |
Gail E. Haley |
The Post Office Cat |
— |
| 1975 |
Victor Ambrus |
Horses in Battle (and)
Mishka |
— (nonfiction)
— |
| 1974 |
Pat Hutchins |
The Wind Blew |
— (informational) |
| 1973 * |
Raymond Briggs |
Father Christmas |
— |
| 1972 |
Krystyna Turska |
The Woodcutter's Duck |
— |
| 1971 |
Jan Pienkowski |
The Kingdom Under the Sea and other stories |
retold by
Joan Aiken |
| 1970 |
John Burningham |
Mr Gumpy's Outing |
— |
| 1969 |
Helen Oxenbury |
The Quangle Wangle's Hat (and)
The Dragon of an Ordinary Family |
Edward Lear (unknown);
Margaret Mahy (1969) |
| 1968 |
Pauline Baynes |
A Dictionary of Chivalry |
Grant Uden (reference) |
| 1967 |
Charles Keeping |
Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary |
— |
| 1966 |
Raymond Briggs |
Mother Goose Treasury |
traditional |
| 1965 |
Victor Ambrus |
The Three Poor Tailors |
— |
| 1964 |
C. Walter Hodges |
Shakespeare's Theatre |
— (nonfiction) |
| 1963 * |
John Burningham |
Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers |
— |
| 1962 |
Brian Wildsmith |
ABC (also Brian Wildsmith's ABC) |
— (no text) |
| 1961 |
Antony Maitland |
Mrs Cockle's Cat |
Philippa Pearce |
| 1960 |
Gerald Rose |
Old Winkle and the Seagulls |
Elizabeth Rose |
| 1959 |
William Stobbs |
Kashtanka (and)
A Bundle of Ballads |
Anton Chekhov (1887);
Ruth Manning-Sanders
from the Child Ballads |
| 1958 |
(Prize withheld as no book considered suitable) |
| 1957 |
V. H. Drummond |
Mrs Easter and the Storks |
— |
| 1956 * |
Edward Ardizzone |
Tim All Alone |
— |
| 1955 |
(Prize withheld as no book considered suitable) |