| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2010 |
|
Freya Blackwood |
Harry and Hopper |
| 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 |
| 2005 |
|
Emily Gravett |
Wolves |
| 2004 |
|
Chris Riddell |
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver |
| 2003 |
|
Shirley Hughes |
Ella's Big Chance |
| 2002 |
|
Bob Graham |
Jethro Byrd, 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 |
Mister Magnolia |
| 1979 |
|
Jan Pie?kowski |
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 Pie?kowski |
The Kingdom Under the Sea and Other Stories |
| 1970 |
|
John Burningham |
Mr. Gumpy's Outing |
| 1969 |
|
Helen Oxenbury |
|
| 1968 |
|
Pauline Baynes |
A dictionary of chivalry |
| 1967 |
|
Charles Keeping |
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 |
| 1962 |
|
Brian Wildsmith |
ABC |
| 1961 |
|
Antony Maitland |
Mrs. Cockle's Cat |
| 1960 |
|
Gerald Rose |
Old Winkle and the Seagulls |
| 1959 |
|
William Stobbs |
A Bundle of Ballads, Kashtanka |
| 1957 |
|
V.H. Drummond |
Mrs Easter and the Storks |
| 1956 |
|
Edward Ardizzone |
Tim all alone |
