Kate Greenaway Medal

Essentially the British equivalent to our Caldecott Medial, The Carnegie Medal for Illustration (until 2022, the Kate Greenaway Medal) is a British award that annually recognizes "distinguished illustration in a book for children". It is conferred upon the illustrator by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) which inherited it from the Library Association. CILIP is currently partnered with the audio technology company Yoto in connection with the award, though their sponsorship and the removal of Greenaway’s name from the medal proved controversial.

The Medal is named after the 19th-century English illustrator of children's books Kate Greenaway (1846–1901).[1] It was established in 1955 and inaugurated next year for 1955 publications, but no work was considered suitable.[2] The first Medal was awarded in 1957 to Edward Ardizzone 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.

Kate Greenaway Medal winners[2][6]

Date Illustrator Title Distinct Writer
2023 Jeet Zdung[7] Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear Trang Nguyen
2022 Danica Novgorodoff[8] Long Way Down Jason Reynolds
2021 Sydney Smith[9][10] Small in the City
2020 Shaun Tan Tales from the Inner City
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)
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Tim All Alone
by Edward Ardizzone
from Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
for 1st-4th grade
1956 Kate Greenaway Medal
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)