Kate Greenaway Medal
Winners
Through 2017 there have been 60 Greenaway Medals awarded in 62 years, covering 1955 to 2016 publications approximately. No eligible book published in 1955 or 1958 was considered suitable.

Kate Greenaway Medal

Section Title: Winners
Table Section Text: Through 2017 there have been 60 Greenaway Medals awarded in 62 years, covering 1955 to 2016 publications approximately. No eligible book published in 1955 or 1958 was considered suitable.

Date	Illustrator	Title	Distinct Writer

2018	Sydney Smith	Town Is by the Sea	Joanne Schwartz

2017	Lane Smith	There Is a Tribe of Kids	—

2016	Chris Riddell	The Sleeper and the Spindle	Neil Gaiman

2015	William Grill	Shackleton's Journey	—

2014	Jon Klassen	This Is Not My Hat	—

2013	Levi Pinfold	Black Dog	—

2012	Jim Kay	A Monster Calls	Patrick Ness

2011	Grahame Baker-Smith	FArTHER	—

2010	Freya Blackwood	Harry and Hopper	Margaret Wild

2009	Catherine Rayner	Harris Finds His Feet	—

2008	Emily Gravett	Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears	—

2007	Mini Grey	The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon	—

2006 The award date is the year of publication before 2006, the year of presentation after 2006.

2005	Emily Gravett	Wolves	—

2004	Chris Riddell	Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver"	Jonathan Swift (1726) adapted

2003	Shirley Hughes	Ella's Big Chance	— (Cinderella adapted)

2002	Bob Graham	Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child	—

2001	Chris Riddell	Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter	Richard Platt (informational)

2000 *	Lauren Child	I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato	—

1999 *	Helen Oxenbury	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll (1865)

1998	Helen Cooper	Pumpkin Soup	—

1997	P. J. Lynch	When Jessie Came Across the Sea	Amy Hest

1996	Helen Cooper	The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed	—

1995	P. J. Lynch	The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey	Susan Wojciechowski

1994	Gregory Rogers	Way Home	Libby Hathorn

1993	Alan Lee	Black Ships Before Troy	Rosemary Sutcliff

1992	Anthony Browne	Zoo	—

1991	Janet Ahlberg	The Jolly Christmas Postman	Allan Ahlberg

1990	Gary Blythe	The Whales' Song	Dyan Sheldon

1989	Michael Foreman	War Boy: A Country Childhood	—

1988	Barbara Firth	Can't You Sleep Little Bear?	Martin Waddell

1987	Adrienne Kennaway	Crafty Chameleon	Mwenye Hadithi

1986	Fiona French	Snow White in New York	—

1985	Juan Wijngaard	Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady	retold by Selena Hastings

1984	Errol Le Cain	Hiawatha's Childhood	Longfellow (1855)

1983 *	Anthony Browne	Gorilla	—

1982	Michael Foreman	Long Neck and Thunder Foot (and) Sleeping Beauty and other favourite fairy tales	Helen Piers (and) traditional

1981 *	Charles Keeping	The Highwayman	Alfred Noyes (1906)

1980 *	Quentin Blake	Mr Magnolia	—

1979	Jan Pieńkowski	Haunted House	—

1978 *	Janet Ahlberg	Each Peach Pear Plum	Allan Ahlberg

1977 *	Shirley Hughes	Dogger	—

1976	Gail E. Haley	The Post Office Cat	—

1975	Victor Ambrus	Horses in Battle (and) Mishka	— (nonfiction) —

1974	Pat Hutchins	The Wind Blew	— (informational)

1973 *	Raymond Briggs	Father Christmas	—

1972	Krystyna Turska	The Woodcutter's Duck	—

1971	Jan Pieńkowski	The Kingdom Under the Sea and other stories	retold by Joan Aiken

1970	John Burningham	Mr Gumpy's Outing	—

1969	Helen Oxenbury	The Quangle Wangle's Hat (and) The Dragon of an Ordinary Family	Edward Lear (unknown); Margaret Mahy (1969)

1968	Pauline Baynes	A Dictionary of Chivalry	Grant Uden (reference)

1967	Charles Keeping	Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary	—

1966	Raymond Briggs	Mother Goose Treasury	traditional

1965	Victor Ambrus	The Three Poor Tailors	—

1964	C. Walter Hodges	Shakespeare's Theatre	— (nonfiction)

1963 *	John Burningham	Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers	—

1962	Brian Wildsmith	ABC (also Brian Wildsmith's ABC)	— (no text)

1961	Antony Maitland	Mrs Cockle's Cat	Philippa Pearce

1960	Gerald Rose	Old Winkle and the Seagulls	Elizabeth Rose

1959	William Stobbs	Kashtanka (and) A Bundle of Ballads	Anton Chekhov (1887); Ruth Manning-Sanders from the Child 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)

Sentence(s)

A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay, won the Greenaway Medals for writing and illustration (2012).

final_sentence: A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay, won the Greenaway Medals for writing and illustration (2012).