# Costa Book Award for Children's Book

The Costa Book Award for Children's Book, formerly known as the Whitbread Award (1971–2005), was an annual literary award for children's books, part of the Costa Book Awards, which were discontinued in 2022, the 2021 awards being the last made.

## Recipients

Costa Book Award for Children's Book winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 1972 | Rumer Godden | The Diddakoi | Winner |
| 1973 | Alan Aldridge and William Plomer | The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast | Winner |
| 1974 | Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake | How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen | Winner |
| 1974 | Jill Paton Walsh | The Emperor's Winding Sheet | Winner |
| 1975 | No award presented in 1975 | No award presented in 1975 | |
| 1976 | Penelope Lively | A Stitch in Time | Winner |
| 1977 | Shelagh Macdonald | No End to Yesterday | Winner |
| 1978 | Philippa Pearce | The Battle of Bubble & Squeak | Winner |
| 1979 | Peter Dickinson | Tulku | Winner |
| 1980 | Leon Garfield | John Diamond | Winner |
| 1981 | Jane Gardam | The Hollow Land | Winner |
| 1982 | W. J. Corbett | The Song of Pentecost | Winner |
| 1983 | Roald Dahl | The Witches | Winner |
| 1984 | Barbara Willard | The Queen of the Pharisees' Children | Winner |
| 1985 | Janni Howker | The Nature of the Beast | Winner |
| 1986 | Andrew Taylor | The Coal House | Winner |
| 1987 | Geraldine McCaughrean | A Little Lower than the Angels | Winner |
| 1988 | Judy Allen | Awaiting Developments | Winner |
| 1989 | Hugh Scott | Why Weeps the Brogan | Winner |
| 1990 | Peter Dickinson | AK | Winner |
| 1991 | Diana Hendry | Harvey Angell | Winner |
| 1992 | Gillian Cross | The Great Elephant Chase | Winner |
| 1993 | Anne Fine | Flour Babies | Winner |
| 1994 | Geraldine McCaughrean | Gold Dust | Winner |
| 1995 | Michael Morpurgo | The Wreck of the Zanzibar | Winner |
| 1995 | Elizabeth Arnold | The Parsley Parcel | Shortlist |
| 1995 | Philip Ridley | Kasper in the Glitter | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Anne Fine | The Tulip Touch | Winner |
| 1996 | Russell Hoban | The Trokeville Way | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Geraldine McCaughrean | Plundering Paradise | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Philip Pullman | Clockwork or All Wound Up | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Andrew Norriss | Aquila | Winner |
| 1997 | Alan Temperley | Harry and the Wrinklies | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Sharon Creech | Chasing Redbird | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Melvin Burgess | Junk | Shortlist |
| 1998 | David Almond | Skellig | Winner |
| 1998 | Robert Swindells | Abomination | Shortlist |
| 1998 | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Shortlist |
| 1998 | James Riordan | Sweet Clarinet | Shortlist |
| 1999 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Winner |
| 1999 | Carol Ann Duffy | Meeting Midnight | Shortlist |
| 1999 | Michael Morpurgo | Kensuke's Kingdom | Shortlist |
| 1999 | Jacqueline Wilson | The Illustrated Mum | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Jamila Gavin | Coram Boy | Winner |
| 2000 | David Almond | Heaven Eyes | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Kevin Crossley-Holland | The Seeing Stone | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Adéle Geras | Troy | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Philip Pullman | The Amber Spyglass | Winner |
| 2001 | Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Eva Ibbotson | Journey to the River Sea | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Terry Jones | The Lady and the Squire | Shortlist |
| 2002 | Hilary McKay | Saffy's Angel | Winner |
| 2002 | Julie Bertagna | Exodus | Shortlist |
| 2002 | Celia Rees | Sorceress | Shortlist |
| 2002 | Philip Reeve | Mortal Engines | Shortlist |
| 2003 | David Almond | The Fire-Eaters | Winner |
| 2003 | Catherine Fisher | The Oracle | Shortlist |
| 2003 | Michael Morpurgo | Private Peaceful | Shortlist |
| 2003 | Jeanne Willis | Naked Without a Hat | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Geraldine McCaughrean | Not the End of the World | Winner |
| 2004 | Anne Cassidy | Looking for JJ | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Meg Rosoff | How I Live Now | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Ann Turnbull | No Shame, No Fear | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Kate Thompson | The New Policeman | Winner |
| 2005 | Frank Cottrell Boyce | Framed | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Geraldine McCaughrean | The White Darkness | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Hilary McKay | Permanent Rose | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Linda Newbery | Set in Stone | Winner |
| 2006 | David Almond | Clay | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Julia Golding | The Diamond of Drury Lane | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Meg Rosoff | Just in Case | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Ann Kelley | The Bower Bird | Winner |
| 2007 | Elizabeth Laird | Crusade | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Meg Rosoff | What I Was | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Marcus Sedgwick | Blood Red Snow White | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Michelle Magorian | Just Henry | Winner |
| 2008 | Keith Gray | Ostrich Boys | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Saci Lloyd | The Carbon Diaries: 2015 | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Jenny Valentine | Broken Soup | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Patrick Ness | The Ask and the Answer | Winner |
| 2009 | Siobhan Dowd | Solace of the Road | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Mary Hoffman | Troubadour | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Anna Perera | Guantanamo Boy | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Jason Wallace | Out of Shadows | Winner |
| 2010 | Lucy Christopher | Flyaway | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Sharon Dogar | Annexed | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Jonathan Stroud | Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Moira Young | Blood Red Road | Winner |
| 2011 | Martyn Bedford | Flip | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Frank Cottrell Boyce | The Unforgotten Coat | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Lissa Evans | Small Change for Stuart | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Sally Gardner | Maggot Moon | Winner |
| 2012 | Diana Hendry | The Seeing | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Hayley Long | What’s Up with Jody Barton? | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Dave Shelton | A Boy and a Bear in a Boat | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Chris Riddell | Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse | Winner |
| 2013 | Ross Montgomery | Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Sarah Naughton | The Hanged Man Rises | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Elizabeth Wein | Rose Under Fire | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Kate Saunders | Five Children on the Western Front | Winner |
| 2014 | Simon Mason | Running Girl | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Michael Morpurgo | Listen to the Moon | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Marcus Sedgwick | The Ghosts of Heaven | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Frances Hardinge | The Lie Tree | Winner |
| 2015 | Hayley Long | Sophie Someone | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Sally Nicholls | An Island of Our Own | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Andrew Norriss | Jessica's Ghost | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Brian Conaghan | The Bombs That Brought Us Together | Winner |
| 2016 | Ross Welford | Time Travelling With a Hamster | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Francesca Simon | The Monstrous Child | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Katherine Rundell | The Explorer | Winner |
| 2017 | Sarah Crossan | Moonrise | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Lissa Evans | Wed Wabbit | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Millwood Hargrave | The Island at the End of Everything | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Katherine Rundell | The Explorers | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Hilary McKay | The Skylarks' War | Winner |
| 2018 | David Almond | The Colour of the Sun | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Candy Gourlay | Bone Talk | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Matt Killeen | Orphan Monster Spy | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Jasbinder Bilan | Asha & the Spirit Bird | Winner |
| 2019 | Malorie Blackman | Crossfire | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Nicholas Bowling | In the Shadow of Heroes | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Jenny Downham | Furious Thing | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Natasha Farrant | Voyage of the Sparrowhawk | Winner |
| 2020 | Darren Charlton | Wranglestone | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Jenny Pearson | The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Meg Rosoff | The Great Godden | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Manjeet Mann | The Crossing | Winner |
| 2021 | Anna Goodall | Maggie Blue and the Dark World | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Ross Montgomery | The Midnight Guardians | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Helen Rutter | The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh | Shortlist |