Kate Greenaway Medal

The [British] Library Association, Youth Libraries Group.

Established 1956. Presented annually for the most distinguished work in the illustration of children's books published in the United Kingdom. The date below reflects the date the book was published. The award is presented during the summer of the following year.

1997 - P.J. Lynch, When Jessie Came Across the Sea (Text: Amy Hest) Macdonald Young Books

Highly commended
Charlotte Voake. Ginger (Walker Books)
Bob Graham. Queenie the Bantam (Walker Books)
Complete Shortlist

1996 - Helen Cooper, The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed. Doubleday

Highly Commended:
Caroline Binch, Down by the River: Afro-Caribbean rhymes, games, and songs for children (Compiled by: Grace Hallworth) Heinemann.
Commended:
Christina Balit, Ishtar and Tammuz: a Babylonian myth of the seasons (Text: Christopher Moore) Frances Lincoln.
Complete Shortlist

1995 - P.J. Lynch, The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (Text: Susan Wojciechowski)

1994 - Gregory Rogers, The Way Home (Text: Libby Hathorn)

Highly commended:
Helen Oxenbury, So Much (Text: Trish Cooke)
Commended:
Chris Riddell, Something Else (Text: Kathryn Cave)

1993 - Alan Lee, Black Ships before Troy (Text: Rosemary Sutcliff)

1992 - Anthony Browne, Zoo

1991 - Janet Ahlberg, The Jolly Christmas Postman (Text: Allan Ahlberg)

1990 - Gary Blythe, The Whales' Song (Text: Dyan Sheldon)

1989 - Michael Foreman, War Boy: A Country Childhood

1988 - Barbara Firth, Can't you Sleep, Little Bear? (Text: Martin Waddell)

1987 - Adrienne Kennaway, Crafty Chameleon (Text: Mwenye Hadithi)

1986 - Fiona French, Snow White in New York

1985 - Juan Wijngaard, Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (Text: Selina Hastings)

1984 - Errol LeCain, Hiawatha's Childhood

1983 - Anthony Browne, Gorilla

1982 - Michael Foreman, Long Neck and Thunder Foot (Text: Helen Piers), and Sleeping Beauty and other Favorite Fairy Tales (Selected by: Angela Carter)

1981 - Charles Keeping, The Highwayman (Text: Alfred Noyes)

1980 - Quentin Blake, Mr. Magnolia

1979 - Jan Pienkowski, The Haunted House

1978 - Janet Ahlberg, Each Peach Pear Plum (Text: Allan Ahlberg)

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 (Text: Edward Lear)

1968 - Pauline Baynes, A Dictionary of Chivalry (Text: Grant Uden)

1967 - Charles Keeping, Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary

1966 - Raymond Briggs, Mother Goose Treasury

1965 - Victor Ambrus, Three Poor Tailors

1964 - C. Walter Hodges, Shakespeare's Theatre

1963 - John Burningham, Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers

1962 - Brian Wildsmith, Brian Wildsmith's ABC

1961 - Anthony Maitland, Mrs. Cockle's Cat (Text: Philippa Pearce)

1960 - Gerald Rose, Old Winkle and the Seagulls (Text: Elizabeth Rose)

1959 - William Stobbs, Kashtanka (Text: Anton Chekov), and A Bundle of Ballads (Compiled by: Ruth Manning-Sanders)

1958 - No Award

1957 - V.H. Drummond, Mrs. Easter and the Storks

1956 - Edward Ardizzone, Tim All Alone

1955 - No Award

Thursday, October 15, 1998
U.K. Book Awards from:
The Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/