Kate Greenaway Medal

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).

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.

Full list of winners

Note: Since 2007 the year relates to when the medal was awarded. Previously the year refers to the publication date of the books. [http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/greenaway/full_list_of_winners.php Kate Greenaway Medal: Full List of Winners] ]

* 2008 Emily Gravett, "Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears"
* 2007 Mini Grey, "The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon"
* 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, (Charlie and Lola)
* 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, ""
* 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. Walter Hodges, "Shakespeare's Theatre"
* 1963 John Burningham, ""
* 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"

hortlists

Note: Since 2007 the year relates to when the medal was awarded. Previously the year refers to the publication date of the books.

* 2008
** Anthony Browne, "Silly Billy"
** Polly Dunbar, "Penguin"
** Emily Gravett, "Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears"
** Emily Gravett, "Monkey and Me"
** Jane Ray, "The Lost Happy Endings"
** Chris Riddell, "Ottoline and the Yellow Cat"
** Ed Vere, "Banana!"
* 2007
** Ross Collins, "The Elephantom"
** Emily Gravett, "Orange Pear Apple Bear"
** Mini Grey, "The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon"
** John Kelly & Cathy Tincknell, "Scoop! An Exclusive by Monty Molenski"
** Catherine Rayner, "Augustus and His Smile"
** Chris Riddell, "The Emperor of Absurdia"
* 2005
** Tony DiTerlizzi, "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You"
** Emily Gravett, "Wolves"
** Mini Grey, "Traction Man is Here"
** Oliver Jeffers, "Lost and Found
** Dave McKean, "Mirrormask"
** Jane Ray, "Jinnie Ghost"
** David Roberts, ""
** Rob Scotton, "Russell the Sheep"
* 2004
** Ian Andrew, "The Boat"
** Russell Ayto, "One More Sheep"
** Simon Bartram, "Dougal's Deep-Sea Diary"
** Quentin Blake, "Sad Book"
** Nick Butterworth, "The Whisperer"
** John Kelly, "Guess Who's Coming For Dinner?"
** Chris Riddell, "Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver""
* 2003
** Anthony Browne, "The Shape Game"
** Alexis Deacon, "Beegu"
** Debi Gliori, "Always and Forever"
** Mini Grey, "The Pea and the Princess"
** Shirley Hughes, "Ella's Big Chance"
** Dave McKean, "The Wolves in the Walls"
** Bee Willey, "Bob Robber and Dancing Jane"
** Chris Wormell, "Two Frogs"
* 2002
** Simon Bartram, "Man on the Moon"
** Nick Butterworth, "Albert le Blanc"
** Lauren Child, "That Pesky Rat"
** Lauren Child, "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Book?"
** Bob Graham, "Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child"
** David Melling, "The Kiss That Missed"
** Nick Sharratt, "Pants"
** Helen Ward, "The Cockerel And The Fox"
* 2001
** Jez Alborough, "Fix-it Duck"
** Russell Ayto, "The Witch's Children"
** Nicola Bayley, "Katje The Windmill Cat"
** Caroline Binch, "Silver Shoes"
** Helen Cooper, "Tatty Ratty"
** Charles Fuge, "Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball"
** Bob Graham "Let's Get A Pup!"
** Chris Riddell, "Pirate Diary"

Nominations

Note: Since 2007 the year relates to when the medal was awarded. Previously the year refers to the publication date of the books.

* 2008
** Pamela Allen, "Shhh! Little Mouse"
** Deborah Allwright, "Hello! Is That Grandma?"
** Ian Andrew, "Water Boy"
** Clare Beaton, "Elusive Moose"
** Patrick Benson, "Moby-Dick"
** Michael Broad, "Scaredy Cat and Boo"
** Anthony Browne, "Silly Billy"
** Helen Cooper, "Delicious!"
** Polly Dunbar, "Penguin"
** Michael Foreman, "Beowulf"
** Emily Gravett, "Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears"
** Emily Gravett, "Monkey and Me"
** Mairi Hedderwick, "Katie Morag and the Dancing Class"
** Oliver Jeffers, "The Incredible Book Eating Boy"
** Neal Layton, "That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown"
** David Melling, "The Scallywags"
** David Melling, "Two by Two and a half"
** Jackie Morris, "The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems"
** Helen Oxenbury, "The Growing Story"
** Guy Parker-Rees, "All Afloat on Noah's Boat"
** Jane Ray, "The Lost Happy Endings"
** Adrian Reynolds, "Who's in the Loo?"
** Peter Richardson, "Boffin Boy and the Invaders from Space"
** Chris Riddell, "Ottoline and the Yellow Cat"
** David Roberts, "Tyrannosaurus Drip"
** Nick Sharratt, "Never use a Knife and Fork"
** Nick Sharratt, "When a Monster is Born"
** Manya Stojic, "Tiger's Story"
** Ed Vere, "Banana!"
** Ed Vere, "The Getaway"
** Sarah Warburton, "My Unwilling Witch"
** Helen Ward, "Wonderful Life"
* 2007
** Russell Ayto, "Tim, Ted and the Pirates"
** Carol Baicker-McKee, "Cheep! Cheep!"
** Christina Balit, "The Scarab's Secret"
** Ian Beck, "Winston the Book Wolf"
** Ruth Brown, "Imagine"
** Matt Buckingham, "Bright Stanley"
** Nick Butterworth, "Tiger"
** Ross Collins, "The Elephantom"
** Alexis Deacon, "While You Are Sleeping"
** Joelle Dreidemy, "The Lamb Who Came for Dinner"
** Polly Dunbar, "Down the Back of the Chair"
** Michael Foreman, "Mia's Story"
** Michael Foreman, "Norman's Ark"
** Ben Galbraith, "The Three Fishing Brothers Gruff"
** Bob Graham, "Dimity Dumpty"
** Emily Gravett, "Meerkat Mail"
** Emily Gravett, "Orange Pear Apple Bear"
** Mini Grey, "The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon"
** Mairi Hedderwick, "The Utterly Otterleys"
** Tim Hopgood, "Our Big Blue Sofa"
** Petr Horacek, "Silly Suzy Goose"
** Bruce Ingman, "The Runaway Dinner"
** Karin Littlewood, "The Most Important Gift of All"
** Sam Lloyd, "Mr Pusskins"
** Jane Ray, "Lugalbanda"
** Jane Ray, "Moonbird"
** Catherine Rayner, "Augustus and His Smile"
** Chris Riddell, "The Emperor of Absurdia"
** Tony Ross, "Mayfly Day"
** Rob Scotton, "Russell and the Lost Treasure"
** Nick Sharratt, "006 and a Bit"
** Colin Thompson, "Castles"
** John Kelly & Cathy Tincknell, "Scoop! An Exclusive by Monty Molenski"
* 2005
** Wayne Anderson, "Moon Dog"
** Nicola Bayley, ""
** Rosalind Beardshaw, "A Tale of Two Goats"
** Christian Birmingham, "Wenceslas"
** Ruth Brown, "Night-time Tale"
** Chiara Cervasio & Sarah Marshall (editors), "Dis N Dat"
** Lauren Child, "The Princess and the Pea"
** Izhar Cohen, "The Wolf's Story"
** Lucy Cousins, "Hooray for Fish!"
** Steve Cox, "Pigs Might Fly!"
** Tony DiTerlizzi, "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You"
** Charles Fuge, "Gilbert the Great"
** Charles Fuge, "It's Lovely When You Smile"
** Charles Fuge, "Swim, Little Wombat, Swim"
** Melvyn Grant, "Where's My Cow?"
** Emily Gravett, "Wolves"
** Mini Grey, "Traction Man is Here"
** Oliver Jeffers, "Lost and Found
** Steve Johnson & Lou Fancher, "The Dancing Tiger"
** Iiris Maanoja, "Miki Has Cancer"
** Emma McCann, "Munch"
** Dave McKean, "Mirrormask"
** Colin McNaughton, "Potty Poo-Poo Wee-Wee!"
** David Melling, "Good Knight Sleep Tight"
** Jackie Morris, "Can You See a Little Bear?"
** Helen Oxenbury, "Alice Through the Looking-Glass"
** Jane Ray, "Jinnie Ghost"
** David Roberts, ""
** Fay Robinson, "A Fish Wish"
** Tony Ross, "Killer Gorilla"
** Axel Scheffler, "Charlie Cook's Favourite Book"
** Rob Scotton, "Russell the Sheep"
** Nick Sharratt, "Mr Pod and Mr Piccalilli"
** Alan Snow, "Here Be Monsters!"
** Adam Stower, "Mungo and the Picture Book Pirates"
** Adam Stower, "Slam!"
** Sophy Williams, "Princess Pearl"
** Chris Wormell, "The Sea Monster"
** Chris Wormell, "The Wild Girl"
** Selina Young, "Once Upon a Tide"
* 2004
** Ian Andrew, "The Boat"
** Ian Andrew, Nick Harris, Helen Ward, ""
** Russell Ayto, "One More Sheep"
** Jeannie Baker, "Belonging"
** Simon Bartram, "Dougal's Deep-Sea Diary"
** Caroline Binch, "The Princess and the Castle"
** Quentin Blake, "Sad Book"
** Gary Blythe, "Milo and the Night Market"
** Raymond Briggs, "The Puddleman"
** Anthony Browne, "Into the Forest"
** Nick Butterworth, "The Whisperer"
** Lauren Child, "Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent"
** Jason Cockcroft, "Room for a Little One"
** Jan Fearnley, "Watch Out, Wilf!"
** Michael Foreman, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
** Lindsey Gardiner, "Mile-High Apple Pie"
** Mini Grey, "Biscuit Bear"
** Kevin Hawkes, "City Circus"
** John Kelly, "Guess Who's Coming For Dinner?"
** Satoshi Kitamura, "Once Upon An Ordinary School Day"
** David McKee, "The Conquerors"
** Peter Malone, "How Many Miles to Bethlehem?"
** Lydia Monks, "Aaaarrgghh Spider!"
** Elena Odriozola, "Vegetable Glue"
** Guy Parker-Rees, "Spookyrumpus"
** Rosie Reeve, "Hey, I Love You!"
** Chris Riddell, "Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver""
** Tony Ross, "Shhh!"
** Axel Scheffler, "The Gruffalo's Child"
** Posy Simmonds, "Baker Cat"
** Jane Simmons, "Daisy and the Moon"
** Jane Simmons, "Pog and the Birdies"
** Helen Ward, ""
** Bee Willey, "The Wooden Dragon"
* 2003
** Jez Alborough, "Some Dogs Do"
** Wayne Anderson, "The Dragon Machine"
** Russell Ayto, "The Witch's Children and the Queen"
** Simon Bartram, "Winter's Tale"
** Caroline Birch, "Petar's Song"
** Christian Birmingham, "Sleeping Beauty"
** Anthony Browne, "The Shape Game"
** Julia Cairns, ""
** Lauren Child, "I Am Too Absolutely Small For School"
** Carll Cneut, "Antonio on the Other Side of the World, Getting Smaller"
** Ben Cort, "Under the Bed"
** Alexis Deacon, "Beegu"
** Shelley Fowles, "The Bachelor and the Bean"
** Caroline Glicksman, "Eric the Red"
** Debi Gliori, "Always and Forever"
** Brita Granstrom, "A Chick Called Saturday"
** Mini Grey, "The Pea and the Princess"
** Sue Heap & Nick Sharratt, "Red Rockets and Rainbow Jelly"
** Shirley Hughes, "Ella's Big Chance"
** P. J. Lynch, "The Bee-Man of Orn"
** Dave McKean, "The Wolves in the Walls"
** Mary McQuillan, "Cluck O'Clock"
** Mary McQuillan, "Our Twitchy"
** Chris Mould, "Vesuvius Poovius"
** Steve Noon, "Story of the Nile"
** Colin Paine, "Arthur's Tractor"
** Guy Parker-Rees, "Ducky Dives In!"
** Sara Pinto, "The Alphabet Room"
** David Roberts, ""
** Tony Ross, "Tadpole's Promise"
** Axel Scheffler, "Jingle Jangle Jungle"
** Axel Scheffler, "The Snail and the Whale"
** Posy Simmonds, "Lavender"
** Bee Willey, "Bob Robber and Dancing Jane"
** Sophy Williams, "The Winter Dragon"
** Chris Wormell, "Two Frogs"
** Chris Wormell, "In the Woods"
* 2002
** Jez Alborough, "Captain Duck"
** Simon Bartram, "Man on the Moon"
** Ian Beck, "The Nutcracker"
** Raymond Briggs, "A Bit More Bert"
** Ken Brown, "The Lion in the Long Grass"
** Nick Butterworth, "Albert le Blanc"
** Lauren Child, "That Pesky Rat"
** Lauren Child, "Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Book?"
** Alexis Deacon, "Slow Loris"
** Tony DiTerlizzi, "The Spider and the Fly"
** Sara Fanelli, "Mythological Monsters of Ancient Greece"
** Sarah Fox-Davies, "Snow Bears"
** Debi Gliori, "Penguin Post"
** Bob Graham, "Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child"
** Mini Grey, "Egg Drop"
** Stephen Lambert, "My Grandmother's Clock"
** David Melling, "The Kiss That Missed"
** Kadir Nelson, "The Village that Vanished"
** Helen Oxenbury, "Big Mama Makes The World"
** Korky Paul, "Tiny"
** Jane Ray, "Can You Catch A Mermaid"
** Chris Riddell, "The Story Giant"
** Angelo Rinaldi, "Cow"
** John A. Rowe, "But I Want To!"
** Axel Scheffler, "The Smartest Giant in Town"
** Nick Sharratt, "Pants"
** Joel Stewart, "The Adventures of a Nose"
** Karen Sutherland, ""
** Michael Terry, "The Sulky Vulture"
** Helen Ward, "The Cockerel And The Fox"
** Christopher Wormell, "George and the Dragon"

50th Anniversary "Greenaway of Greenaways" (2007)

For the 50th Anniversary of the Kate Greenaway Medal CILIP ran an online poll to find the nation's favourite Kate Greenaway Medal winning book of all time. The winner, announced at the British Library in June 2007, was Shirley Hughes's "Dogger", just beating Allan Ahlberg’s "Each Peach Pear Plum". [ [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6454463.html Publishers Weekly "Rosoff, Grey Win Carnegie, Greenaway Medals in U.K."] ]

The shortlist of ten medal winning books was as follows (the bracketed date refers to the year of first publication):
*Janet Ahlberg, "Each Peach Pear Plum" (1978)
*Edward Ardizzone, "Tim All Alone" (1956)
*Quentin Blake, "Mr Magnolia" (1980)
*Raymond Briggs, "Father Christmas" (1973)
*Anthony Browne, "Gorilla" (1983)
*John Burningham, "" (1963)
*Lauren Child, "I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato" (2000)
*Shirley Hughes, "Dogger" (1977)
*Charles Keeping, "The Highwayman" (1981)
*Helen Oxenbury, "Alice in Wonderland" (1999)

ee also

* Carnegie Medal
* Children's Laureate
* Guardian Award
* Nestlé Smarties Book Prize

References

External links

* [http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/ Kate Greenaway Medal Official Site and Archives]