Kate Greenaway Medal

The **Kate Greenaway Medal** is an award that was created in the United Kingdom in 1955.  It was named after the children's illustrator, Kate Greenaway. The medal is given every year to an extremely good work of illustration in children's literature. It is awarded by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).

The first award was given to Edward Ardizzone for _Tim All Alone_ in 1956. The winner gets a golden medal and £500 worth of books to give to a library of their choice.

Since the year 2000, the winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal has also been presented with the Colin Mears Award of £5000.

## Full list of winners

- **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_
- **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, _War Boy: a Country Childhood_
- **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, _Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers_
- **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 because no book was good enough_
- **1957** V. H. Drummond, _Mrs Easter and the Storks_
- **1956** Edward Ardizzone, _Tim All Alone_
- **1955** _Prize withheld because no book was good enough_