Kate Greenaway Medal |
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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)
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.
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
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