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Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals

The Kate Greenaway Medal is a British literary award that annually recognises "distinguished illustration in a book for children". 

The Medal is named after the 19th-century English illustrator of children's books Kate Greenaway(1846–1901). The first Medal was awarded in 1957. The Greenaway is a companion to the Carnegie Medal which recognises one outstanding work of writing for children and young adults

Winners

Year

Illustrator

Book Title

2021

Sydney Smith

Small in the City

2020

Shaun Tan

Tales from the Inner City

2019

Jackie Morris

The Lost Words

2018

Sydney Smith

Town Is by the Sea

2017

Lane Smith

There Is a Tribe of Kids

2016

Chris Riddell

The Sleeper and the Spindle

2015

William Grill

Shackleton's Journey

2014

Jon Klassen

This Is Not My Hat

2013

Levi Pinfold

Black Dog

2012

Jim Kay

A Monster Calls

2011

Grahame Baker-Smith 

FATHER

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 Byrde, Fairy Child

2001

Chris Riddell

Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter

2000 

Lauren Child

I Will Never Not Ever 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 Pieńkowski

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 Pieńkowski

The Kingdom Under the Sea and other stories

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

A 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

ABC 

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

 

1957

V. H. Drummond

Mrs Easter and the Storks

1956 

Edward Ardizzone

Tim All Alone