Winners

 

2021 - The Highland Falcon Thief by M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman

2020 – A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

2019 –

2018 – The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris — The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas (joint winners)

2017 – The Girl of Ink & Stars - Kiran Millwood

2015–2016 (no award)

2014 – Awful Auntie – David Walliams

2013 – Demon Dentist – David Walliams

2012 – Ratburger – David Walliams

2011 – A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness

2010 – Zog – Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler

2009 – Breaking Dawn – Stephenie Meyer 

2008 – Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman – Francesca Simon 

2007 – Flanimals of the Deep – Ricky Gervais 

2006 – Ark Angel – Anthony Horowitz 

2005 – The Gruffalo's Child – Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler 

2004 – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon 

2003 – Girls in Tears – Jacqueline Wilson 

2002 – Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer 

2001 – The Amber Spyglass – Philip Pullman 

2000 – The Illustrated Mum – Jacqueline Wilson 

1999 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J. K. Rowling 

1998 – Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – J. K. Rowling 

1997 – Northern Lights – Philip Pullman 

1996 – The Hutchinson Treasury of Children's Literature – ed. Alison Sage