Greenaway Medal Winners – Illustrators
illustration by Kate Greenaway
The Kate Greenaway Medal was established in the United Kingdom 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 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).
I’ve put the winners first in alphabetical order by author for easier library searches, then in chronological order.
Kate Greenaway Medal Winners 1956 – 2013
(arranged alphabetically by author)
Ahlberg, Allan and Janet – The Jolly Christmas Postman ; Each Peach Pear Plum
Aiken, Joan – The Kingdom Under the Sea (ill. by Jan Pienkowski)
Ambrus, Victor – The Three Poor Tailors ; Horses in Battle ; Mishka
Ardizzone, Edward – Tim All Alone
Baker-Smith, Grahame – FArTHER
Blake, Quentin – Mr. Magnolia
Briggs, Raymond – Father Christmas ; Mother Goose Treasury
Browne, Anthony – Zoo ; Gorilla
Burningham, John – Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers ; Mr. Gumpy’s Outing
Carter, Angela – Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales (ill. Michael Foreman)
Chekhov, Anton – Kashtanka (ill. by William Stobbs)
Child, Lauren – I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato
Cooper, Helen – Pumpkin Soup ; The Baby Who Wouldn’t Go To Bed
Drummond, V.H. – Mrs. Easter and the Storks
Foreman, Michael – War Boy: a Country Childhood
French, Fiona – Snow White in New York
Gaiman, Neil – The Sleeper and the Spindle (ill. by Chris Riddell)
Graham, Bob – Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child
Gravett, Emily – Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears ; Wolves
Grey, Mini – The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon
Grill, William – Shackleton’s Journey
Hadithi, Mwenye – Crafty Chameleon (ill. by Adrienne Kennaway)
Haley, Gail E. – The Post Office Cat
Hastings, Selma – Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (ill. by Juan Wijngaard)
Hathorn, Libby – Way Home (ill. by Gregory Rogers)
Hest, Amy – When Jessie Came Across the Sea (ill. by P. J. Lynch)
Hodges, C. Walter – Shakespeare’s Theatre
Hughes, Shirley – Ella’s Big Chance ; Dogger
Hutchins, Pat – The Wind Blew
Keeping, Charles – The Highwayman ; Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary
Klassen, Jon – This is Not My Hat
LeCain, Errol – Hiawatha’s Childhood
MacFarlane, Robert – The Lost Words (ill. by Jackie Morris)
Manning-Sanders, Ruth (ed.) – A Bundle of Ballads (ill. by William Stobbs)
Ness, Patrick – A Monster Calls (ill. by Jim Kay)
Oxenbury, Helen – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ; The Quangle Wangle’s Hat ; The Dragon of an Ordinary Family
Pearce, Philippa – Mrs. Cockle’s Cat (ill. by Antony Maitland)
Pienkowski, Jan – The Haunted House
Piers, Helen – Long Neck and Thunder Foot (ill. by Michael Foreman)
Pinfold, Levi – Black Dog
Platt, Richard – Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter (ill. by Chris Riddell)
Rayner, Catherine – Harris Finds His Feet
Riddell, Chris – Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver”
Rose, Gerald – Old Winkle and the Seagulls
Schwartz, Joanne – Town is by the Sea (ill. by Sydney Smith)
Sheldon, Dyan – The Whales’ Song (ill. by Gary Blythe)
Smith, Lane – There is a Tribe of Kids
Sutcliff, Rosemary – Black Ships Before Troy (ill. by Alan Lee)
Tan, Shaun – Tales from the Inner City
Turska, Krystyna – The Woodcutter’s Duck
Uden, Grant – Dictionary of Chivalry (ill. by Pauline Baynes)
Waddell, Martin – Can’t You Sleep Little Bear? (ill. by Barbara Firth)
Wild, Margaret – Harry and Hopper (ill. by Freya Blackwood)
Wildsmith, Brian – ABC
Wojciechowski, Susan – The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (ill. P. J. Lynch)
Kate Greenaway Medal Winners 1956 – 2013
(chronological list)
1956:Tim All Alone, Edward Ardizzone
1957: Mrs. Easter and the Storks, V. H. Drummond
1959: Kashtanka and A Bundle of Ballads, William Stobbs
1960: Old Winkle and the Seagulls, Gerald Rose
1961: Mrs. Cockle’s Cat, Antony Maitland
1962: A.B.C., Brian Wildsmith
1963: Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers, John Burningham
1964: Shakespeare’s Theatre, C. Walter Hodges
1965: The Three Poor Tailors, Victor Ambrus
1966: Mother Goose Treasury, Raymond Briggs
1967: Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary, Charles Keeping
1968: Dictionary of Chivalry, Pauline Baynes
1969: The Quangle Wangle’s Hat and The Dragon of an Ordinary Family, Helen Oxenbury
1970: Mr. Gumpy’s Outing, John Burningham
1971: The Kingdom Under the Sea, Jan Pienkowski
1972: The Woodcutter’s Duck, Krystyna Turska
1973: Father Christmas, Raymond Briggs
1974: The Wind Blew, Pat Hutchins
1975: Horses in Battle and Mishka, Victor Ambrus
1976: The Post Office Cat, Gail E. Haley
1977: Dogger, Shirley Hughes
1978: Each Peach Pear Plum, Janet Ahlberg
1979: The Haunted House, Jan Pienkowski
1980: Mr. Magnolia, Quentin Blake
1981: The Highwayman, Charles Keeping
1982: Long Neck and Thunder Foot and Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales, Michael Foreman
1983: Gorilla, Anthony Browne
1984: Hiawatha’s Childhood, Errol Le Cain
1985: Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady, Juan Wijngaard
1986: Snow White in New York, Fiona French
1987: Crafty Chameleon, Adrienne Kennaway
1988: Can’t You Sleep Little Bear?, Barbara Firth
1989: War Boy: a Country Childhood, Michael Foreman
1990: The Whales’ Song, Gary Blythe
1991: The Jolly Christmas Postman, Janet Ahlberg
1992: Zoo, Anthony Browne
1993: Black Ships Before Troy, Alan Lee
1994: Way Home, Gregory Rogers
1995: The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, P. J. Lynch
1996: The Baby Who Wouldn’t Go to Bed, Helen Cooper
1997: When Jessie Came Across the Sea, P. J. Lynch
1998: Pumpkin Soup, Helen Cooper
1999: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Helen Oxenbury
2000: I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato, Lauren Child
2001: Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter, Chris Riddell
2002:Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child, Bob Graham
2003: Ella’s Big Chance, Shirley Hughes
2004: Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver”, Chris Riddell
2005: Wolves, Emily Gravett
2007: The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon, Mini Grey
2008: Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears, Emily Gravett
2009: Harris Finds His Feet, Catherine Rayner
2010: Harry and Hopper, Freya Blackwood
2011: FArTHER, Grahame Baker-Smith
2012: A Monster Calls, Jim Kay
2013: Black Dog, Levi Pinfold
2014: This is Not My Hat, Jon Klassen
2015: Shackleton’s Journey, William Grill
2016: The Sleeper and the Spindle, Chris Riddell
2017: There is a Tribe of Kids, Lane Smith
2018: Town is by the Sea, Sydney Smith
2019: The Lost Words, Jackie Morris
2020: Tales From the Inner City, Shaun Tan
[ all information courtesy of Wikipedia.org ]
