Explore the titles that have won the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal in previous years!

The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people. The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are the UK’s oldest and best-loved children’s book awards, recognising outstanding reading experiences created through writing and illustration in books for children and young people.

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2010 - Harry and Hopper - Margaret Wild & Freya Blackwood

2003 - Ella's Big Chance - Shirley Hughes

2002 - Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child - Bob Graham

1999 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Helen Oxenbury

1993 - Black Ships Before Troy - Rosemary Sutcliff & Alan Lee

1985 - Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady - Selena Hastings & Juan Wijngaard

1984 - Hiawatha's Childhood - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Errol Le Cain

1976 - The Post Office Cat - Gail E. Haley

1975 - Mishka - Victor Ambrus

1974 - The Wind Blew - Pat Hutchins

1972 - The Woodcutter's Duck - Krystyna Turska

1971 - The Kingdom Under the Sea - Joan Aiken & Jan Pieńkowski

1969 - The Quangle Wangle's Hat - Edward Lear & Helen Oxenbury

1968 - A Dictionary of Chivalry - Grant Uden & Paulines Baynes

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

1966 - Mother Goose Treasury - Raymond Briggs

1965 - The Three Poor Tailors - Victor Ambrus

1964 - Shakespeare's Theatre - C. Walter Hodges

1962 - ABC - Brian Wildsmith

1961 - Mrs Cockle's Cat - Philippa Pearce & Antony Maitland

1960 - Old Winkle and the Seagulls - Elizabeth Rose

1959 - Kastanka - Anton Chekhov & William Stobbs

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

1956 - Tim All Alone - Edward Ardizzone

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