Kate Greenaway Medal

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The Kate Greenaway Medal was established in the UK in 1955 in honour of the children's illustrator, Kate Greenaway. The medal is given annually to an outstanding work of illustration in children's literature. It is awarded by CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.

The first award was made to Edward Ardizzone for Tim All Alone in 1956. The winner receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a library of their choice.

Since 2000, the recipient of the Kate Greenaway Medal has also been presented with the Colin Mears Award to the value of £5000.

It is interesting to note that the award was not given in 1955 or 1958, since no book was considered suitable - which points to a very different era of children's illustrated literature.

[edit] Full list of winners

2005 Emily Gravett, Wolves
2004 Chris Riddell, Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver"'
2003 Shirley Hughes, Ella's Big Chance
2002 Bob Graham, Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child
2001 Chris Riddell, Pirate Diary
2000 Lauren Child, I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato
1999 Helen Oxenbury, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
1998 Helen Cooper, Pumpkin Soup
1997 P. J. Lynch, When Jessie Came Across the Sea
1996 Helen Cooper, The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed
1995 P. J. Lynch, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
1994 Gregory Rogers, Way Home
1993 Alan Lee, Black Ships Before Troy
1992 Anthony Browne, Zoo
1991 Janet Ahlberg, The Jolly Christmas Postman
1990 Gary Blythe, The Whales' Song
1989 Michael Foreman, War Boy: a Country Childhood
1988 Barbara Firth, Can't You Sleep Little Bear?
1987 Adrienne Kennaway, Crafty Chameleon
1986 Fiona French, Snow White in New York
1985 Juan Wijngaard, Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady
1984 Errol Le Cain, Hiawatha's Childhood
1983 Anthony Browne, Gorilla
1982 Michael Foreman, Long Neck and Thunder Foot and Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales
1981 Charles Keeping, The Highwayman
1980 Quentin Blake, Mr Magnolia
1979 Jan Pienkowski, The Haunted House
1978 Janet Ahlberg, Each Peach Pear Plum
1977 Shirley Hughes, Dogger
1976 Gail E. Haley, The Post Office Cat
1975 Victor Ambrus, Horses in Battle and Mishka
1974 Pat Hutchins, The Wind Blew
1973 Raymond Briggs, Father Christmas
1972 Krystyna Turska, The Woodcutter's Duck
1971 Jan Pienkowski, The Kingdom under the Sea
1970 John Burningham, Mr Gumpy's Outing
1969 Helen Oxenbury, The Quangle Wangle's hat and The Dragon of an Ordinary Family
1968 Pauline Baynes, Dictionary of Chivalry
1967 Charles Keeping, Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary
1966 Raymond Briggs, Mother Goose Treasury
1965 Victor Ambrus, The Three Poor Tailors
1964 C. W. Hodges, Shakespeare's Theatre
1963 John Burningham, Borka: the Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers
1962 Brian Wildsmith, A.B.C
1961 Antony Maitland, Mrs. Cockle's Cat
1960 Gerald Rose, Old Winkle and the Seagulls
1959 William Stobbs, Kashtanka and A Bundle of 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