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The Carnegie Medal for Illustration (until 2022 the Kate Greenaway Medal<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>) is a British award that annually recognises "distinguished illustration in a book for children". It is conferred upon the illustrator by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)<ref name=about/> which inherited it from the Library Association.

The Medal was first named after the 19th-century English illustrator of children's books Kate Greenaway (1846–1901).<ref name=about/> It was established in 1955 and inaugurated in 1956 for 1955 publications, but no work that year was considered suitable.<ref name=winners/> The first Medal was awarded in 1957 to Edward Ardizzone for Tim All Alone (Oxford, 1956), which he also wrote. That first Medal was dated 1956. Since 2007 the Medal has been dated by its presentation during the year following publication. This medal is a companion to the Carnegie Medal for Writing which recognises an outstanding work of writing for children and young adults.<ref name=carnegie/>

Nominated books must be first published in the U.K. during the preceding school year (September to August), with English-language text if any.<ref name=rules/>

The award by CILIP is a gold Medal and £500 worth of books donated to the illustrator's chosen library. Since 2000 there is also a £5000 cash prize from a bequest by the children's book collector Colin Mears.<ref name=about/>

Rules

Library and information professionals in CILIP nominate books in September and October, after the close of the publication year. A panel of 12 children's librarians in CILIP's youth interest group judges books for both the Writing and Illustration awards. The shortlist is announced in March and the winner in June.<ref name=CGprocess/>

Candidates must be published in the U.K. during the preceding year (September to August). They must be published for young people, and published in the U.K. originally or within three months in case of co-publication. English must be the language of any text, or one of dual languages. "All categories of illustrated books for children and young people are eligible."<ref name="rules" />

CILIP specifies numerous points of artistic style, format, and visual experience, and also "synergy of illustration and text" that should be considered. Furthermore, "The whole work should provide pleasure from a stimulating and satisfying visual experience which leaves a lasting impression. Illustrated work needs to be considered primarily in terms of its graphic elements, and where text exists particular attention should be paid to the synergy between the two."<ref name="rules" />

Winners

Through 2025 there have been 69 Medals awarded in 70 years, covering 1955 to 2024 publications. No eligible book published in 1955 or 1958 was considered suitable. From 2007 the medals are dated by the year of presentation; previously by the calendar year of British publication.<ref name=winners/>

Medal winners<ref name=winners/>
Date Illustrator Title Author (if different) Publisher
2025 Olivia Lomenech Gill Clever Crow Chris Butterworth Walker Books
2024 Aaron Becker The Tree and the River Walker Books
2023 Jeet Zdung Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear Trang Nguyen Kingfisher
2022 Danica Novgorodoff Long Way Down Jason Reynolds Faber & Faber
2021 Sydney Smith Small in the City — Walker Books
2020 Shaun Tan Tales from the Inner City — Walker Books
2019 Jackie Morris The Lost Words Robert Macfarlane Hamish Hamilton
2018 Sydney Smith Town is by the Sea Joanne Schwartz Walker Books
2017 Lane Smith There is a Tribe of Kids — Two Hoots
2016 Chris Riddell The Sleeper and the Spindle Neil Gaiman Bloomsbury
2015 William Grill Shackleton's Journey — Flying Eye Books
2014 Jon Klassen This Is Not My Hat — Walker Books
2013 Levi Pinfold Black Dog — Templar
2012 Jim Kay A Monster Calls Patrick Ness Walker Books
2011 Grahame Baker-Smith FArTHER — Templar
2010 Freya Blackwood Harry and Hopper Margaret Wild Scholastic
2009 Catherine Rayner Harris Finds His Feet — Little Tiger
2008 Emily Gravett Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears — Pan Macmillan
2007 Mini Grey The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon — Jonathan Cape
2006 (The award date is the year of publication before 2006, the year of presentation after 2006.)
2005 Emily Gravett Wolves — PanMacmillan
2004 Chris Riddell Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver" Jonathan Swift (1726) adapted Walker Books
2003 Shirley Hughes Ella's Big Chance — (Cinderella adapted) Bodley Head
2002 Bob Graham Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child — Walker Books
2001 Chris Riddell Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter Richard Platt (informational) Walker Books
2000 Lauren Child I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato * — Orchard Books
1999 Helen Oxenbury Alice's Adventures in Wonderland * Lewis Carroll (1865) Walker Books
1998 Helen Cooper Pumpkin Soup — Doubleday
1997 P. J. Lynch When Jessie Came Across the Sea Amy Hest Walker Books
1996 Helen Cooper The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed — Doubleday
1995 P. J. Lynch The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey Susan Wojciechowski Walker Books
1994 Gregory Rogers Way Home Libby Hathorn Andersen
1993 Alan Lee Black Ships Before Troy Rosemary Sutcliff Frances Lincoln
1992 Anthony Browne Zoo — Julia MacRae
1991 Janet Ahlberg The Jolly Christmas Postman Allan Ahlberg Heinemann
1990 Gary Blythe The Whales' Song Dyan Sheldon Hutchinson
1989 Michael Foreman War Boy: A Country Childhood — (autobiographical) Pavilion
1988 Barbara Firth Can't You Sleep Little Bear? Martin Waddell Walker Books
1987 Adrienne Kennaway Crafty Chameleon Mwenye Hadithi Hodder & Stoughton
1986 Fiona French Snow White in New York — Oxford
1985 Juan Wijngaard Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady retold by
Selina Hastings 		Walker Books
1984 Errol Le Cain Hiawatha's Childhood Longfellow (1855) Faber
1983 Anthony Browne Gorilla * — Julia MacRae
1982 Michael Foreman Long Neck and Thunder Foot (and)
Sleeping Beauty and other favourite fairy tales		 Helen Piers (and)

traditional

Kestrel;

Gollancz

1981 Charles Keeping The Highwayman * Alfred Noyes (1906) Oxford
1980 Quentin Blake Mr Magnolia * — Jonathan Cape
1979 Jan Pieńkowski Haunted House — Heinemann
1978 Janet Ahlberg Each Peach Pear Plum * Allan Ahlberg Kestrel
1977 Shirley Hughes Dogger * — Bodley Head
1976 Gail E. Haley The Post Office Cat — Bodley Head
1975 Victor Ambrus Horses in Battle (and)
Mishka		 — (nonfiction)
— 		Oxford;

Oxford

1974 Pat Hutchins The Wind Blew — (informational) Bodley Head
1973 Raymond Briggs Father Christmas * — Hamish Hamilton
1972 Krystyna Turska The Woodcutter's Duck — Hamish Hamilton
1971 Jan Pieńkowski The Kingdom Under the Sea and other stories retold by Joan Aiken Jonathan Cape
1970 John Burningham Mr Gumpy's Outing — Jonathan Cape
1969 Helen Oxenbury The Quangle Wangle's Hat (and)
The Dragon of an Ordinary Family		 Edward Lear (unknown);
Margaret Mahy (1969) 		Heinemann, Franklin Watts; Heinemann
1968 Pauline Baynes A Dictionary of Chivalry Grant Uden (reference) Longman
1967 Charles Keeping Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary — Oxford
1966 Raymond Briggs Mother Goose Treasury traditional Hamish Hamilton
1965 Victor Ambrus The Three Poor Tailors — Oxford, Hamish Hamilton
1964 C. Walter Hodges Shakespeare's Theatre — (nonfiction) Oxford
1963 John Burningham Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers * — Jonathan Cape
1962 Brian Wildsmith ABC (also Brian Wildsmith's ABC) — (no text) Oxford
1961 Antony Maitland Mrs Cockle's Cat Philippa Pearce Constable,Longman
1960 Gerald Rose Old Winkle and the Seagulls Elizabeth Rose Faber
1959 William Stobbs Kashtanka (and)
A Bundle of Ballads		 Anton Chekhov (1887);
Ruth Manning-Sanders from the Child Ballads 		Oxford;

Oxford

1958 (Prize withheld as no book considered suitable)
1957 V. H. Drummond Mrs Easter and the Storks — Faber
1956 Edward Ardizzone Tim All Alone * — Oxford
1955 (Prize withheld as no book considered suitable)

* Named to the 50th Anniversary Top Ten in 2007.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":49">Template:Cite web</ref>

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Winners of multiple awards

Only one illustrator, Chris Riddell, has won three Medals. Fourteen other illustrators have won two of the 64 Medals awarded through 2021. The first winner of two Medals was John Burningham, 1963 and 1970. The most recent is Sydney Smith in 2018 and 2021.

Only A Monster Calls (Walker Books, 2011), by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay, has won both the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for writing and illustration (2012).

In 2014, This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen won both the Greenaway Medal and the American Caldecott Medal, which recognises a picture book illustrated by a U.S. citizen or resident. This is the first time the same book has won both medals.<ref name="walker2">Template:Cite web</ref> The recently common practice of co-publication makes a double win possible. Indeed, This Is Not My Hat was released in Britain and America on the same day, 9 October 2012, by Walker Books and its American subsidiary Candlewick Press.<ref name=walker>This Is Not My Hat Template:Webarchive (hardcover). Walker Books. Retrieved 2014-06-29.</ref><ref>"THIS IS NOT MY HAT by Jon Klassen". Kirkus Reviews. 15 September 2012. Retrieved 2014-06-29.</ref>

Gail E. Haley was the first illustrator to win both medals, albeit for different works: the 1971 Caldecott for A Story a Story (1970) and the 1976 Greenaway for The Post Office Cat. She also wrote both books.

Helen Oxenbury, who won the 1969 and 1999 medals, was also a "Highly Commended" runner-up four times from 1989 to 1994; the distinction was used 31 times in 29 years to 2002 and no other illustrator was highly commended more than twice.<ref name=ccsu/> Michael Foreman, who won the 1982 and 1989 medals, was highly commended once and four times a "Commended" runner-up, a distinction used 68 times in 44 years to 2002.<ref name=ccsu/>

Walker Books, based in London, with American subsidiary Candlewick Press in Somerville, MA, has published 10 of the 30 Greenaway Medal-winning works from 1985 to 2014.<ref name=walker2/>

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50-year Greenaway of Greenaways (2007)

For the 50th medal anniversary,Template:Efn CILIP posted online information about all of the winning works (1955–2005) and conducted a poll to identify the nation's favourite Kate Greenaway Medalist. The public were invited to send in their nominations between 16 October and 1 December 2006.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Polling was subsequently opened between 20 April and 14 June 2007 for ten shortlisted titles determined by a panel and the winner was announced on 21 June 2007 at the British Library.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> By less than one percentage point Dogger, illustrated and written by Shirley Hughes (1977), outpolled Each Peach Pear Plum illustrated by Janet Ahlberg and written by Allan Ahlberg (1978).<ref name=":50">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":51">Template:Cite news</ref>

The nation, and international voters too, considered a ballot or all-time shortlist comprising ten of the 50 Medal-winning works, selected by six "children's book experts". The panel provided annotations including recommended ages that range from 1+ to 10+ years; age 4+ for the winner.<ref>70 Years Celebration The CILIP Book Awards.</ref>Template:Failed verification

50th Anniversary Top Ten

Shortlists and Honorees

Headings give the official award dates: years of publication before 2006; years of presentation after 2006.<ref name="winners" />

Prior to the 1990's these listings cover only the Medalist and known Highly Commended (+) or Commended (–) books.<ref name="ccsu" /><ref name="writers" />

1954 Carnegie Medal

Illustrator Harold Jones received a Special Commendation for the 1954 Carnegie Medal, for his part in Lavender's Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes, compiled by Kathleen Lines (Oxford) — a 180-page collection named for "Lavender's Blue", which Oxford University Press has reprinted many times. It was "a major reason" for the Library Association to establish the Kate Greenaway Medal that year.<ref name=ccsu/> No 1955 work was judged worthy in 1956, so the Greenaway was actually inaugurated one year later, recognising a 1956 publication.

1955 to 1989

1955 (not awarded)

1956 Edward Ardizzone, Tim All Alone (Oxford) @

Ardizzone had inaugurated the Tim series in 1936 with Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (Oxford); its last sequel was Ships Cook Ginger (1977). Tim All Alone was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.<ref name=":49" />

1957 V. H. Drummond, Mrs Easter and the Storks (Faber) @

1958 (not awarded)

No work was considered suitable, the second and last time.

1959 William Stobbs, Kashtanka (Oxford), by Anton Chekhov (1887) and A Bundle of Ballads (Oxford), by Ruth Manning-Sanders from the Child Ballads (19th century collection)

– Edward Ardizzone, Titus in Trouble (Bodley Head), by James Reeves
– Gerald Rose, Wuffles Goes To Town (Faber), by Elizabeth Rose

The 1959 medal recognised two books, the first of four such occasions to 1982. Two runners-up were "Commended", a new distinction that would be used 99 times in 44 years to 2002, including 31 "Highly Commended" books that were named beginning 1974.<ref name=ccsu/>

1960 Gerald Rose, Old Winkle and the Seagulls (Faber), by Elizabeth Rose

(no commendations)

1961 Antony Maitland, Mrs Cockle's Cat (Constable; Longman), by Philippa Pearce

(no commendations)

1962 Brian Wildsmith, ABC (Oxford) @

– Carol Barker, Achilles the Donkey (Dobson), by H. E. Bates

ABC was Wildsmith's first book, an alphabet book without any words, commissioned by Mabel George at Oxford.

1963 John Burningham, Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers (Jonathan Cape) @

– Victor Ambrus, The Royal Navy (Oxford), by Peter Dawlish
– Victor Ambrus, A Time of Trial (Oxford), by Hester Burton
– Brian Wildsmith, The Lion and the Rat: A Fable (Oxford), by Jean de La Fontaine (1668), from Aesop (6th century BCE)
– Brian Wildsmith, Oxford Book of Poetry for Children (Oxford), ed. Edward Blishen

Borka was Burningham's first book as an author or illustrator and it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.<ref name=":49" />

1964 C. Walter Hodges, Shakespeare's Theatre (Oxford) @ —nonfiction

– Raymond Briggs, Fee Fi Fo Fum (Hamish Hamilton) @
– Victor Ambrus, for work in general
– William Papas, for work in generalTemplate:Efn

Hodges was a freelance illustrator, a lover of theatre, and an authority on theatre construction in Shakespeare's time. Shakespeare's Theatre was the first nonfiction book cited for the medal.

Ambrus and Papas received the first and only commendations for "work in general".

1965 Victor Ambrus, The Three Poor Tailors (Oxford; Hamish Hamilton) @

(no commendations)

The Three Poor Tailors was the first-published book written by Ambrus, who had illustrated dozens of fiction and nonfiction books for Oxford since immigrating from Hungary via Austria.

1966 Raymond Briggs, Mother Goose Treasury (Hamish Hamilton), traditional

– Doreen Roberts, The Story of Saul the King (Constable; Oxford), abridged from Helen Waddell, Stories from Holy Writ (1949)

1967 Charles Keeping, Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary (Oxford) @

– William Papas, The Church (Oxford), by Geoffrey Moorhouse
– William Papas, No Mules (Oxford) @
– Brian Wildsmith, Birds (Oxford) @

1968 Pauline Baynes, A Dictionary of Chivalry (Longman), by Grant Uden —reference

– Gaynor Chapman, The Luck Child: Based on a story of the Brothers Grimm (Hamish Hamilton), based on Brothers Grimm
– Shirley Hughes, Flutes and Cymbals: Poetry for the Young (Bodley Head), compiled by Leonard Clark
– William Papas, A Letter from India (Oxford) @Template:Efn —information book
– William Papas, A Letter from Israel (Oxford) @ —information book
– William Papas, Taresh the tea planter (Oxford) @

Baynes alone has won the medal for illustrating a reference book; only a few nonfiction or fictionalised information books have been cited.

The distinguished runners-up (–) were called "Honours" rather than "Commended" for 1968, 1969, and perhaps 1970.

1969 Helen Oxenbury, The Quangle Wangle's Hat (Heinemann; Franklin Watts), by Edward Lear (late 19th century) and The Dragon of an Ordinary Family (Heinemann), by Margaret Mahy

– Errol Le Cain, The Cabbage Princess (Faber) @
– Charles Keeping, Joseph's Yard (Longman) @

The distinguished runners-up (–) were called "Honours" again.

1970 John Burningham, Mr Gumpy's Outing (Jonathan Cape) @

– Charles Keeping, The God Beneath the Sea (Longman), by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen
– Jan Pieńkowski, The Golden Bird (J. M. Dent), by Edith Brill
– Krystyna Turska, Pegasus (Hamish Hamilton), the myth of Pegasus and Bellerophon retold by Turska

Burningham became the first to win two medals, 1963 and 1970, one year after his wife Helen Oxenbury won her first of two. As of 2012 fourteen illustrators have won two Greenaways, none three.

Garfield and Blishen won the companion Carnegie Medal for The God Beneath the Sea. (For more than fifty years until 2012, no single book won both of the CILIP awards.)

1971 Jan Pieńkowski, The Kingdom under the Sea and other stories (Jonathan Cape), retold by Joan Aiken

– Victor Ambrus, The Sultan's Bath (Oxford) @
– Brian Wildsmith, The Owl and the Woodpecker (Oxford) @

(One source calls these two runners-up "Highly Commended". They would be the first.)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

1972 Krystyna Turska, The Woodcutter's Duck (Hamish Hamilton) @

– Carol Barker, King Midas and the Golden Touch (Franklin Watts), a version of the Midas myth
– Pauline Baynes, Snail and Caterpillar (Longman), by Helen Piers
– Antony Maitland, The Ghost Downstairs (Longman), by Leon Garfield

1973 Raymond Briggs, Father Christmas (Hamish Hamilton) @

– Fiona French, King Tree (Oxford) @
– Errol Lloyd, My Brother Sean (Bodley Head), by Petronella Breinburg

Briggs introduced the grumpy old man with a challenging, lonely job, to be continued in Father Christmas Goes on Holiday ( ). Father Christmas was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.<ref name=":49" />

1974 Pat Hutchins, The Wind Blew (Bodley Head) @

– Mitsumasa Anno, Anno's Alphabet (Bodley Head) @
+ Charles Keeping, Railway Passage (Oxford) @

The Wind Blew has been called informative, meteorological poetry.Template:Citation needed

(According to answers.com citing Gale Biographies, Anno's Alphabet was ineligible for the medal, with its Japanese author and original publisher.)

1975 Victor Ambrus, Horses in Battle (Oxford) @ and Mishka (Oxford) @

– Shirley Hughes, Helpers (Bodley Head) @
– Errol Le Cain, Thorn Rose, or the Sleeping Beauty (Faber), from Brothers Grimm

Ambrus won his second medal. Horses in Battle, nonfiction or fictionalised history, is the latest "information book" to be cited except for one, Pirate Diary (2001).<ref name=pr2001/>

1976 Gail E. Haley, The Post Office Cat (Bodley Head) @

+ Graham Oakley, The Church Mice Adrift (Macmillan) @ —fifth of 12 Church Mice books
+ Maureen Roffey, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor (Bodley Head), by Bernard Lodge
+ Joanna Troughton, How the Birds Changed Their Feathers (Blackie, Folk Tales of the World), retold and illustrated by Troughton @

Haley had won the 1971 Caldecott Medal (U.S.) and moved to the U.K. in 1973. No one else has won both medals, which CILIP rules and co-publication enable in the 21st century.

1977 Shirley Hughes, Dogger (Bodley Head) @

– Janet Ahlberg, Burglar Bill (Heinemann), by Allan Ahlberg
– Mary Rayner, Garth Pig and the Ice Cream Lady (Macmillan) @

Dogger was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007, and was voted the public favourite from that slate.<ref name=":49" />

1978 Janet Ahlberg, Each Peach Pear Plum (Kestrel), by Allan Ahlberg

+ Raymond Briggs, The Snowman (Hamish Hamilton) @ —no text
– Michael Foreman, Popular Folk Tales (Gollancz), newly translated from Brothers Grimm by Brian Alderson
– Errol Le Cain, The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Faber), retold from Brothers Grimm by Le Cain

Each Peach Pear Plum was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007, and finished a close second in public voting on that slate.<ref name=":49" />

1979 Jan Pieńkowski, The Haunted House (Heinemann) @

+ Quentin Blake, The Wild Washerwomen: A new folk tale ( ), by John Yeoman
– Pat Hutchins, One-Eyed Jack ( ) @

Pieńkowski won his second medal.

1980 Quentin Blake, Mr Magnolia (Jonathan Cape) @

– Beryl Cook, Seven Years and a Day (Collins), by Colette O'Hare
+ Michael Foreman, City of Gold and other stories from the Old Testament (Gollancz), retold by Peter Dickinson
– Jill Murphy, Peace at Last ( ) @

Mister Magnolia was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.<ref name=":49" />

Dickinson won the companion Carnegie Medal for City of Gold. (For more than fifty years until 2012, no single book won both of the CILIP awards.)

1981 Charles Keeping, The Highwayman (Oxford), an edition of the 1906 poem by Alfred Noyes

– Nicola Bayley, The Patchwork Cat (Jonathan Cape), by William Mayne
+ Jan Ormerod, Sunshine (Kestrel) @

Keeping won his second medal. The Highwayman was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.<ref name=":49" />

1982 Michael Foreman, Long Neck and Thunder Foot (Kestrel), by Helen Piers and Sleeping Beauty and other favourite fairy tales (Gollancz), selected and translated by Angela Carter

– Janet Ahlberg, The Baby's Catalogue ( ), by Allan Ahlberg
+ Graham Oakley, The Church Mice in Action (Macmillan) @ —eighth of twelve Church Mice books

The 1982 medal recognised two books, the last of four times from 1959. Sleeping Beauty also won the inaugural Kurt Maschler Award for children's book "text and illustration ... integrated so that each enhances and balances the other."<ref name=bizland/>

Oakley and the Church Mice series were highly commended for the second time, the first double recognition for a series (books five and eight). Subsequently, Janet Ahlberg (Jolly Postman series) and Chris Riddell (Diary series) were runners-up for the first books and medalists for the sequels.

1983 Anthony Browne, Gorilla (Julia MacRae) @

– Molly Bang, Ten, Nine, Eight ( ) @ —a counting book
– Michael Foreman, The Saga of Erik the Viking (Pavilion), by Terry Jones
– Ron Maris, My Book (Julia MacRae) @

Gorilla was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.<ref name=":49" /> It also won the annual Kurt Maschler Award for integrated text and illustration.<ref name=bizland/>

Ten, Nine, Eight was also a runner-up for the U.S. Caldecott Medal ("Honour Book").

1984 Errol Le Cain, Hiawatha's Childhood (Faber), a section of the 1855 poem by Longfellow

(no commendations)

1985 Juan Wijngaard, Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (Walker), retold by Selina Hastings

– Michael Foreman, Seasons of Splendour: Tales, myths, and legends of India (Pavilion), by Madhur Jaffrey
– Gillian McClure, Tog the Ribber, or, Granny's Tale (Andre Deutsch), poem by Paul Coltman

1986 Fiona French, Snow White in New York (Oxford) @

– Janet Ahlberg, The Jolly Postman (Heinemann), by Allan Ahlberg
– Paddy Bouma, Are We Nearly There? (Bodley Head), by Louis Baum
– Babette Cole, Princess Smartypants ( ) @
+ Jan Ormerod, Happy Christmas, Gemma (Walker), by Sarah Hayes
– Fiona Pragoff, How Many?: From 0 to 20 (Gollancz) @
– Tony Ross, I Want My Potty ( ) @ —the first Little Princess book

The Ahlbergs won the Emils for The Jolly Postman (Kurt Maschler Award).<ref name=bizland/>

1987 Adrienne Kennaway, Crafty Chameleon (Hodder & Stoughton), by Mwenye Hadithi

– Babette Cole, Prince Cinders ( ) @
– Errol Le Cain, The Enchanter's Daughter (Jonathan Cape), by Antonia Barber
– Jill Murphy, All in One Piece ( ) @

1988 Barbara Firth, Can't You Sleep Little Bear? (Walker), by Martin Waddell

– Ruth Brown, Ladybird, Ladybird (Andersen), a traditional rhyme
+ Anthony Browne, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( ), an edition of the 1865 classic by Lewis Carroll
– Penny Dale, Wake Up Mr. B! (Walker) @
+ Roberto Innocenti, The Adventures of Pinocchio (Creative Education), an edition of the 1883 classic by Carlo Collodi
+ Alan Lee, Merlin Dreams ( ), by Peter Dickinson

Browne won an Emil for this edition of Alice (Kurt Maschler Award).<ref name=bizland/>

Special 1988 commendation: David Burnie, Bird (Dorling Kindersley, in association with the National History Museum)<ref> Award-winning Books for Children and Young Adults: An Annual Guide, 1989, Betty L. Criscoe, Scarecrow Press, 1990, p. 109. (google books selection). Retrieved 2012-06-26.</ref>

1989 Michael Foreman, War Boy: a Country Childhood (Pavilion) @ —autobiographical

+ Helen Oxenbury, We're Going on a Bear Hunt (Walker), retold by Michael Rosen

Foreman won his second medal. Oxenbury was highly commended for the first of four times.

1990s

In 1991 Janet Ahlberg won her second medal, both for books that were husband-and-wife collaborations. The Jolly Christmas Postman was the second of three interactive Jolly Postman books; the last would be published posthumously. Janet Ahlberg is one of three people to be commended for the Greenaway Medal, at least, for two books in a series.

1992 saw Anthony Browne win his second medal, on this occasion for Zoo written by Julia MacRae.

In 1993 Michael Foreman was a distinguished runner-up for the fifth time (once highly commended).

In 1994 Helen Oxenbury was the lone "Highly Commended" runner-up for the fourth time in six years. The distinction would be used 31 times in 29 years to 2002. Oxenbury and author Trish Cooke would also win the Emils (Kurt Maschler Award) for So Much.<ref name="bizland" />

In 1995 Patrick Benson and author Kathy Henderson won the Emils (Kurt Maschler Award) for The Little Boat.<ref name="bizland" />

1997, 1998 and 1999 marked second medal wins for three different illustrators. In 1997 P. J. Lynch won for the second time with When Jessie Came Across the Sea, and in 1998 Helen Cooper did the same with Pumpkin Soup. The final year of the decade saw Helen Oxenbury win her second Greenaway Medal for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which would go onto be named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.<ref name=":49" /> Oxenbury also won her second Emil (Kurt Maschler Award), which were subsequently discontinued having run from 1982 to 1999.<ref name="bizland" />

Colour key:

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Medal winners, Commendations and Shortlists, 1990-1999
Year Illustrator Title Publisher Author (if different) Result Ref.
1990 Gary Blythe The Whales' Song Hutchinson Dyan Sheldon Winner <ref name="ccsu" />
Tony Ross Dr Xargle's Book of Earth Tiggers Andersen Press Jeanne Willis Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Nicola Bayley The Mousehole Cat Walker Books Antonia Barber Commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Roberto Innocenti A Christmas Carol Creative Education an edition of the 1843 classic by Charles Dickens Commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Penny Dale Rosie's Babies Walker Books Martin Waddell Shortlist <ref name=":60">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Kim Lewis The Shepherd Boy Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":60" />
Jane Ray Noah’s Ark Orchard Books — Shortlist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1991 Janet Ahlberg The Jolly Christmas Postman Heinemann Allan Ahlberg Winner <ref name="ccsu" />
Helen Oxenbury Farmer Duck Walker Books Martin Waddell Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Caroline Binch Amazing Grace Dial Mary Hoffman Commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Jeannie Baker Window Julia MacRae — (no text) Shortlist <ref name=":57">Template:Cite news</ref>
Fiona French Anancy and Mr Dry-Bone Frances Lincoln — Shortlist <ref name=":57" />
P. J. Lynch East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon Walker Books translated by George W. Dasent Shortlist <ref name=":57" />
Jane Ray The Story of Christmas Orchard Books — Shortlist <ref name=":57" />
1992 Anthony Browne Zoo Julia MacRae — Winner <ref name="ccsu" />
Jill Barton The Pig in the Pond Walker Books Martin Waddell Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Caroline Binch Hue Boy Dial Rita Phillips Mitchell Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Stephen Biesty Incredible Cross-Sections Dorling Kindersley Richard Platt Shortlist <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Robert Ingpen Treasure Island Dragon's World an edition of the 1883 classic by Robert Louis Stevenson Shortlist <ref name=":60" />
Francesca Martin The Honey Hunters Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":60" />
Korky Paul The Dog That Dug Bodley Head Jonathan Long Shortlist <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1993 Alan Lee Black Ships Before Troy Frances Lincoln Rosemary Sutcliff Winner <ref name="ccsu" />
Helen Oxenbury The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig Heinemann Young Books Eugene Trivizas Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Michael Foreman War Game Pavilion — Commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Angela Barrett Beware Beware Walker Books Susan Hill Shortlist <ref name=":58">Template:Cite news</ref>
Gary Blythe The Garden Hutchinson Dyan Sheldon Shortlist <ref name=":58" />
Helen Cooper The Bear Under the Stairs Doubleday — Shortlist <ref name=":58" />
Jill Murphy A Quiet Night In Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":58" />
1994 Gregory Rogers Way Home Andersen Press Libby Hathorn Winner <ref name="ccsu" />
Helen Oxenbury So Much Walker Books Trish Cooke Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Chris Riddell Something Else Puffin Kathryn Cave Commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Caroline Binch Gregory Cool Frances Lincoln — Shortlist <ref name=":59">Template:Cite news</ref>
Anthony Browne King Kong Julia MacRae from the 1932 novelised story of King Kong Shortlist <ref name=":59" />
Paul Geraghty The Hunter Hutchinson — Shortlist <ref name=":59" />
P. J. Lynch Catkin Walker Books Antonia Barber Shortlist <ref name=":59" />
Jane Ray The Happy Prince Orchard Books from the fairy tale by Oscar Wilde Shortlist <ref name=":59" />
1995 P. J. Lynch The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey Walker Books Susan Wojciechowski Winner <ref name="ccsu" />
Patrick Benson The Little Boat Walker Books Kathy Henderson Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Quentin Blake Clown Jonathan Cape — Commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Christina Balit Blodin the Beast Frances Lincoln Michael Morpurgo Shortlist <ref name="95short">Template:Cite news</ref>
Ken Brown Tattybogle Andersen Press Sandra Horn Shortlist <ref name="95short" />
Mick Inkpen Nothing Hodder — Shortlist <ref name="95short" />
Colin McNaughton Here Come the Aliens Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name="95short" />
1996 Helen Cooper The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed Doubleday — Winner <ref name="ccsu" /><ref name=":56">Template:Cite web</ref>
Caroline Binch Down by the River Heinemann Grace Hallworth Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" /><ref name=":56" />
Christina Balit Ishtar and Tammuz: A Babylonian myth of the seasons Frances Lincoln retold by Christopher Moore Commended <ref name="ccsu" /><ref name=":56" />
Ruth Brown The Tale of the Monstrous Toad Andersen Press — Shortlist <ref name="short96">Template:Cite news</ref>
Susan Field The Smallest Whale Orchard Books Elisabeth Beresford Shortlist <ref name="short96" />
Debi Gliori Mr Bear to the Rescue Orchard Books — Shortlist <ref name="short96" />
Colin McNaughton Oops! Andersen Press — Shortlist <ref name="short96" />
Korky Paul The Duck That Had No Luck Bodley Head Jonathan Long Shortlist <ref name="short96" />
1997 P. J. Lynch When Jessie Came Across the Sea Walker Books Amy Hest Winner <ref name="ccsu" />
Bob Graham Queenie the Bantam Walker Books — Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Charlotte Voake Ginger Walker Books — Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Ken Brown Mucky Pup Andersen Press — Shortlist <ref name="short97">Template:Cite news</ref>
Anthony Browne Willy the Dreamer Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name="short97" />
Peter Collington A Small Miracle Jonathan Cape — (no text) Shortlist <ref name="short97" />
Clare Mackie Book of Nonsense Macdonald Young Books Michael Rosen Shortlist <ref name="short97" />
Sophie Windham Unicorns! Unicorns! Hutchinson Geraldine McCaughrean Shortlist <ref name="short97" />
1998 Helen Cooper Pumpkin Soup Doubleday — Winner <ref name="ccsu" />
Shirley Hughes The Lion and the Unicorn Bodley Head — Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Jane Simmons Come on Daisy! Orchard Books — Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Christian Birmingham The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe HarperCollins an edition of the 1950 classic by C. S. Lewis Shortlist <ref name="short98">Template:Cite news</ref>
Quentin Blake Zagazoo Jonathan Cape — Shortlist <ref name="short98" />
Anthony Browne Voices in the Park Doubleday — Shortlist <ref name="short98" />
Emma Chichester Clark I Love You, Blue Kangaroo Andersen Press — Shortlist <ref name="short98" />
1999 Helen Oxenbury Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Walker Books an edition of the 1865 classic by Lewis Carroll Winner <ref name="ccsu" />
Lauren Child Clarice Bean, That's Me! Orchard Books — Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Chris Riddell Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page Walker Books Richard Platt Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Kevin Hawkes Weslandia Walker Books Paul Fleischman Commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Patrick Benson The Sea-Thing Child Walker Books Russell Hoban Shortlist <ref name=":55">Template:Cite web</ref>
Christian Birmingham Wombat Goes Walkabout HarperCollins Michael Morpurgo Shortlist <ref name=":55" />
Kathy Henderson The Storm Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":55" />
Simon James Days Like This Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":55" />

2000s

Thanks to a bequest left in 2000 by children’s book and illustration collector, Colin Mears, the winner now receives a cheque for £5000 along with the Greenaway Medal.

The winning book in the year 2000, I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007, and ranked third in public voting from that slate.<ref name=":51" />

In 2001, Pirate Diary became the latest "information book" to be cited for the medal and the first since 1975.<ref name="pr2001" /> It was the second in a series of four first-person journals, inaugurated by Richard Platt and Chris Riddell in 1999 (Castle Diary) and continued by Platt with another illustrator. Riddell was the third and latest illustrator to be at least commended for the Greenaway for books in a series, following Graham Oakley (Church Mice, 1976 and 1982) and Janet Ahlberg (Jolly Postman, 1986 and 1991).

2002 saw Bob Graham become the first medalist from Australia. Lauren Child was the last "Commended" or "Highly Commended" runner-up; there had been 99 such distinctions over 44 years.

Twenty-six years after her first medal, 2003 marked a second win for Shirley Hughes and Ella's Big Chance —a retelling of Cinderella. Commendations ceased to be awarded in this year. Since 2003 there have usually been eight books on the shortlist.

In 2004, Chris Riddell was awarded his second medal, this time for Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver". In this year there were only 7 shortlisted books.

Wolves by Emily Gravett in its U.S. edition was Gravett's first book as author or illustrator, just one year out of college. She won the 49th Greenaway Medal, awarded in its 51st year (2005). Three years later in 2008, when once again there were only 7 shortlisted nominations, Emily Gravett won her second medal for her fourth book, with the cover title Little Mouse's Emily Gravett's Big Book of Fears.

Colour key:

Template:Color box – Medal Winner
Template:Color box – Highly commended
Template:Color box – Commended
Medal winners, Commendations and Shortlists, 2000-2009
Year Illustrator Title Publisher Author (if different) Result Ref.
2000 Lauren Child I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato Orchard Books — Winner <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Anthony Browne Willy's Pictures — Highly commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Ted Dewan Crispin: The Pig Who Had It All Transworld — Commended <ref name="ccsu" />
Ruth Brown Snail Trail — Shortlist <ref name=":52">Template:Cite news</ref>
Lauren Child Beware of the Storybook Wolves Hodder Children's Books — Shortlist <ref name=":52" />
Jane Ray Fairy Tales Walker Books Berlie Doherty Shortlist <ref name=":52" />
2001 Chris Riddell Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter Walker Books Richard Platt Winner <ref name=":47">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Jez Alborough Fix-it Duck Picture Lions — Highly commended <ref name=":47" />
Charles Fuge Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball Gullane Vicki Churchill Highly commended <ref name=":47" />
Russell Ayto The Witch's Children Orchard Books Ursula Jones Shortlist <ref name=":48">Template:Cite web</ref>
Nicola Bayley Katje the Windmill Cat Walker Books Gretchen Woelfle Shortlist <ref name=":48" />
Caroline Binch Silver Shoes Dorling Kindersley — Shortlist <ref name=":48" />
Helen Cooper Tatty Ratty Doubleday — Shortlist <ref name=":48" />
Bob Graham Let's Get a Pup! Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":48" />
2002 Bob Graham Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child Walker Books — Winner <ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Lauren Child That Pesky Rat Orchard Books — Commended <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Simon Bartram Man on the Moon Templar — Shortlist <ref name=":46">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":53">Template:Cite news</ref>
Nick Butterworth Albert le Blanc Collins — Shortlist <ref name=":46" /><ref name=":53" />
Lauren Child Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book? Hodder — Shortlist <ref name=":46" /><ref name=":53" />
David Melling The Kiss That Missed Hodder — Shortlist <ref name=":46" /><ref name=":53" />
Nick Sharratt Pants David Fickling Books Giles Andrae Shortlist <ref name=":46" /><ref name=":53" />
Helen Ward The Cockerel and the Fox Templar —a retelling of Chanticleer and the Fox Shortlist <ref name=":46" /><ref name=":53" />
2003 Shirley Hughes Ella's Big Chance Bodley Head —a retelling of Cinderella Winner <ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Anthony Browne The Shape Game Doubleday — Shortlist <ref name=":41">Template:Cite web</ref>
Alexis Deacon Beegu Hutchinson — Shortlist <ref name=":41" />
Debi Gliori Always and Forever Doubleday Alan Durant Shortlist <ref name=":41" />
Mini Grey The Pea and the Princess Red Fox —a retelling of "The Princess and the Pea" Shortlist <ref name=":41" />
Dave McKean The Wolves in the Walls Bloomsbury Neil Gaiman Shortlist <ref name=":41" />
Bee Willey Bob Robber and Dancing Jane Jonathan Cape Andrew Matthews Shortlist <ref name=":41" />
Chris Wormell Two Frogs Red Fox ; Jonathan Cape — Shortlist <ref name=":41" />
2004 Chris Riddell Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver" Walker Books the 1726 classic Gulliver's Travels adapted by Martin Jenkins Winner <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Ian Andrew The Boat Templar Helen Ward Shortlist <ref name=":42">Template:Cite web</ref>
Russell Ayto One More Sheep Hodder Mij Kelly Shortlist <ref name=":42" />
Simon Bartram Dougal's Deep-Sea Diary Templar — Shortlist <ref name=":42" />
Quentin Blake Michael Rosen's Sad Book Walker Books Michael Rosen Shortlist <ref name=":42" />
Nick Butterworth The Whisperer HarperCollins — Shortlist <ref name=":42" />
John Kelly Guess Who's Coming For Dinner? Templar Cathy Tincknell Shortlist <ref name=":42" />
2005 Emily Gravett Wolves Pan Macmillan — Winner <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Tony DiTerlizzi Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You Simon & Schuster Holly Black Shortlist <ref name=":43">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":44">Template:Cite news</ref>
Mini Grey Traction Man is Here Red Fox — Shortlist <ref name=":43" /><ref name=":44" />
Oliver Jeffers Lost and Found HarperCollins — Shortlist <ref name=":43" /><ref name=":44" />
Dave McKean Mirrormask Bloomsbury Neil Gaiman Shortlist <ref name=":43" /><ref name=":44" />
Jane Ray Jinnie Ghost Frances Lincoln Berlie Doherty Shortlist <ref name=":43" /><ref name=":44" />
David Roberts Little Red: A Fizzingly Good Yarn Abrams Books Lynn Roberts Shortlist <ref name=":43" /><ref name=":44" />
Rob Scotton Russell the Sheep HarperCollins — Shortlist <ref name=":43" /><ref name=":44" />
2006 After 2006 the awards year was adjusted. Before 2007 the year refers to when the book was published rather than when the medal was awarded i.e. the 2005 winner was announced and the medal presented in July 2006.
2007 Mini Grey The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon Jonathan Cape — Winner <ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":50" />
Ross Collins The Elephantom Templar — Shortlist <ref name=":45">Template:Cite web</ref>
Emily Gravett Orange Pear Apple Bear Pan Macmillan — (four words only) Shortlist <ref name=":45" />
John Kelly and Cathy Tincknell Scoop! An Exclusive by Monty Molenski Templar — Shortlist <ref name=":45" />
Catherine Rayner Augustus and His Smile Little Tiger — Shortlist <ref name=":45" />
Chris Riddell The Emperor of Absurdia Pan Macmillan — Shortlist <ref name=":45" />
2008 Emily Gravett Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears Pan Macmillan — Winner <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Anthony Browne Silly Billy Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":37">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":38">Template:Cite web</ref>
Polly Dunbar Penguin Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":37" /><ref name=":38" />
Emily Gravett Monkey and Me Pan Macmillan — Shortlist <ref name=":37" /><ref name=":38" />
Jane Ray The Lost Happy Endings Bloomsbury Carol Ann Duffy Shortlist <ref name=":37" /><ref name=":38" />
Chris Riddell Ottoline and the Yellow Cat Pan Macmillan — Shortlist <ref name=":37" /><ref name=":38" />
Ed Vere Banana! Puffin Books — Shortlist <ref name=":37" /><ref name=":38" />
2009 Catherine Rayner Harris Finds His Feet Little Tiger — Winner <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Angela Barrett The Snow Goose Hutchinson an edition of the 1941 novella by Paul Gallico Shortlist <ref name=":39">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":40">Template:Cite news</ref>
Marc Craste Varmints Templar Helen Ward Shortlist <ref name=":39" /><ref name=":40" />
Thomas Docherty Little Boat Templar — Shortlist <ref name=":39" /><ref name=":40" />
Bob Graham How to Heal a Broken Wing Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":39" /><ref name=":40" />
Oliver Jeffers The Way Back Home HarperCollins — Shortlist <ref name=":39" /><ref name=":40" />
Dave McKean The Savage Walker Books David Almond Shortlist <ref name=":39" /><ref name=":40" />
Chris Wormell Molly and the Night Monster Jonathan Cape — Shortlist <ref name=":39" /><ref name=":40" />

2010s

In 2012, Jim Kay and Patrick Ness won both the Greenaway and Carnegie Medals for A Monster Calls, the first such double. Prior to this, two illustrators of Carnegie Medal-winning books had been runners-up for the Greenaway, namely Charles Keeping (The God Beneath the Sea, 1970) and Michael Foreman (City of Gold, 1980).

2014 marked the first time that the same book had won both the Greenaway and Caldecott medals, having won the latter in 2013.<ref name="walker2" /><ref name="caldecott" /> The winner, Jon Klassen, the first Greenaway medalist from Canada, was shortlisted for two separate publications.<ref name="slj2014">Template:Cite web</ref> In this year the shortlist comprised only seven nominations as opposed to the usual eight.

In 2016, Chris Riddell became the first triple medalist in the history of the award, having previously won in 2001 and 2004.

From 2016 to 2018 an additional award, The Amnesty CLIP Honour, was bestowed upon a shortlisted entry in conjunction with Amnesty International for "books that most distinctively illuminate, uphold or celebrate freedoms".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2016 There’s a Bear on My Chair received the inaugural honour<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and in 2017 the winner was The Journey, illustrated and written by Italian artist Francesca Sanna, which followed a family of refugees.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":4">Template:Cite news</ref> In 2018, Levi Penfold received the honour for his black and white illustrations in The Song from Somewhere Else.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2018 there were only seven shortlisted nominees as opposed to the usual eight. The winner, Sydney Smith would go on to win again in 2021.

In 2019 the Amnesty CLIP Honour was replaced by the Shadowers' Choice Award, voted for and awarded by children and young people who shadow the Medals.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Colour key:

Template:Color box – Medal Winner
Template:Color box – Amnesty CLIP Honour (2016–2018) and Shadowers' Choice Award (2019–) winner if different from Medal winner
Medal winners and Shortlists, 2010-2019
Year Illustrator Title Publisher Author (if different) Result Ref.
2010 Freya Blackwood Harry and Hopper Scholastic Margaret Wild Winner <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Grahame Baker-Smith Leon and the Place Between Templar Angela McAllister Shortlist <ref name=":33">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":34">Template:Cite web</ref>
Oliver Jeffers The Great Paper Caper HarperCollins — Shortlist <ref name=":33" /><ref name=":34" />
Satoshi Kitamura Millie's Marvellous Hat Andersen — Shortlist <ref name=":33" /><ref name=":34" />
Dave McKean Crazy Hair Bloomsbury Neil Gaiman Shortlist <ref name=":33" /><ref name=":34" />
Chris Riddell The Graveyard Book Bloomsbury Neil Gaiman Shortlist <ref name=":33" /><ref name=":34" />
David Roberts The Dunderheads Walker Books Paul Fleischman Shortlist <ref name=":33" /><ref name=":34" />
Viviane Schwarz There Are Cats in This Book Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":33" /><ref name=":34" />
2011 Grahame Baker-Smith FArTHER Templar — Winner <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Anthony Browne Me and You Doubleday — Shortlist <ref name=":35">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":36">Template:Cite web</ref>
Bob Graham April Underhill Tooth Fairy Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":35" /><ref name=":36" />
Mini Grey Jim Jonathan Cape Hilaire Belloc, 1907 Shortlist <ref name=":35" /><ref name=":36" />
Oliver Jeffers The Heart and the Bottle HarperCollins — Shortlist <ref name=":35" /><ref name=":36" />
Kristin Oftedal Big Bear, Little Brother Pan Macmillan Carl Norac Shortlist <ref name=":35" /><ref name=":36" />
Catherine Rayner Ernest Pan Macmillan — Shortlist <ref name=":35" /><ref name=":36" />
Juan Wijngaard Cloud Tea Monkeys Walker Books Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham Shortlist <ref name=":35" /><ref name=":36" />
2012 Jim Kay A Monster Calls Walker Books Patrick Ness Winner <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Emily Gravett Wolf Won't Bite! Pan Macmillan — Shortlist <ref name=":25">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":26">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":27">Template:Cite web</ref>
Petr Horáček Puffin Peter Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":25" /><ref name=":26" /><ref name=":27" />
Dave McKean Slog's Dad Walker Books David Almond Shortlist <ref name=":25" /><ref name=":26" /><ref name=":27" />
Catherine Rayner Solomon Crocodile Pan Macmillan — Shortlist <ref name=":25" /><ref name=":26" /><ref name=":27" />
Rob Ryan The Gift Barefoot Books Carol Ann Duffy Shortlist <ref name=":25" /><ref name=":26" /><ref name=":27" />
Viviane Schwarz There Are No Cats in This Book Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":25" /><ref name=":26" /><ref name=":27" />
Vicky White Can We Save the Tiger? (nonfiction) Walker Books Martin Jenkins Shortlist <ref name=":25" /><ref name=":26" /><ref name=":27" />
2013 Levi Pinfold Black Dog Templar — Winner <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Rebecca Cobb Lunchtime Pan Macmillan — Shortlist <ref name=":28">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":29">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":54">Template:Cite news</ref>
Emily Gravett Again! Pan Macmillan — Shortlist <ref name=":28" /><ref name=":29" /><ref name=":54" />
Chris Haughton Oh No, George! Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":28" /><ref name=":29" /><ref name=":54" />
Jon Klassen I Want My Hat Back Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":28" /><ref name=":29" /><ref name=":54" />
Chris Mould Pirates 'n' Pistols Hodder — Shortlist <ref name=":28" /><ref name=":29" /><ref name=":54" />
Helen Oxenbury King Jack and the Dragon Puffin Books Peter Bently Shortlist <ref name=":28" /><ref name=":29" /><ref name=":54" />
Salvatore Rubbino Just Ducks! Walker Books Nicola Davies Shortlist <ref name=":28" /><ref name=":29" /><ref name=":54" />
2014 Jon Klassen This is Not My Hat Walker Books — Winner <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Rebecca Cobb The Paper Dolls Pan Macmillan Julia Donaldson Shortlist <ref name=":30">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":31">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":32">Template:Cite news</ref>
Olivia Gill Where My Wellies Take Me Templar Michael Morpurgo and Clare Morpurgo Shortlist <ref name=":30" /><ref name=":31" /><ref name=":32" />
Oliver Jeffers The Day the Crayons Quit HarperCollins Drew Daywalt Shortlist <ref name=":30" /><ref name=":31" /><ref name=":32" />
Jon Klassen The Dark Orchard Books Lemony Snicket Shortlist <ref name=":30" /><ref name=":31" /><ref name=":32" />
Dave McKean Mouse Bird Snake Wolf Walker Books David Almond Shortlist <ref name=":30" /><ref name=":31" /><ref name=":32" />
Birgitta Sif Oliver Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":30" /><ref name=":31" /><ref name=":32" />
2015 William Grill Shackleton's Journey Flying Eye Books — Winner <ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Laura Carlin The Promise Walker Books Nicola Davies Shortlist <ref name=":5">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":6">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":7">Template:Cite web</ref>
Alexis Deacon Jim's Lion Walker Books Russell Hoban Shortlist <ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />
John Higgins and Marc Olivent Dark Satanic Mills Walker Books Marcus Sedgwick and Julian Sedgwick Shortlist <ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />
Catherine Rayner Smelly Louie Pan Macmillan — Shortlist <ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />
Chris Riddell Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse Pan Macmillan — Shortlist <ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />
David Roberts Tinder Orion Books Sally Gardner Shortlist <ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />
Shaun Tan Rules of Summer Lothian Publishing — Shortlist <ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />
2016 Chris Riddell The Sleeper and the Spindle Bloomsbury Neil Gaiman Winner <ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Ross Collins There's a Bear on My Chair Nosy Crow — Shortlist and Amnesty CILIP Honoree <ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" />
Anthony Browne Willy's Stories Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":8">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":9">Template:Cite news</ref>
Oliver Jeffers Once Upon an Alphabet HarperCollins — Shortlist <ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" />
Jon Klassen Sam & Dave Dig a Hole Walker Books Mac Barnett Shortlist <ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" />
Jackie Morris Something About a Bear Frances Lincoln — Shortlist <ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" />
Helen Oxenbury Captain Jack and the Pirates Puffin Books Peter Bently Shortlist <ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" />
Sydney Smith Footpath Flowers Walker Books JonArno Lawson Shortlist <ref name=":8" /><ref name=":9" />
2017 Lane Smith There is a Tribe of Kids Two Hoots — Winner <ref name=":4" />
Francesca Sanna The Journey Flying Eye Books — Shortlist and Amnesty CILIP Honoree <ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" />
Dieter Braun Wild Animals of the North Flying Eye Books — Shortlist <ref name=":10">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":11">Template:Cite news</ref>
Emily Gravett Tidy Two Hoots — Shortlist <ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" />
William Grill The Wolves of Currumpaw Flying Eye Books — Shortlist <ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" />
Jim Kay Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Bloomsbury J. K. Rowling Shortlist <ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" />
Chris Riddell A Great Big Cuddle Walker Books Michael Rosen Shortlist <ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" />
Brian Selznick The Marvels Scholastic — Shortlist <ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" />
2018 Sydney Smith Town is by the Sea Walker Books Joanne Schwartz Winner <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Levi Pinfold The Song from Somewhere Else Bloomsbury A.F. Harrold Shortlist and Amnesty CILIP Honoree <ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" />
Laura Carlin King of the Sky Walker Books Nicola Davies Shortlist <ref name=":12">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":13">Template:Cite news</ref>
Debi Gliori Night Shift Hot Key Books — Shortlist <ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" />
Petr Horáček A First Book of Animals Walker Books Nicola Davies Shortlist <ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" />
Pam Smy Thornhill David Fickling Books — Shortlist <ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" />
Britta Teckentrup Under the Same Sky Little Tiger — Shortlist <ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" />
2019 Jackie Morris The Lost Words Hamish Hamilton Robert Macfarlane Winner & Shadowers' Choice Award <ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref>
Jon Klassen The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse Walker Books Mac Barnett Shortlist <ref name=":14">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":15">Template:Cite web</ref>
Rebecca Cobb The Day War Came Walker Books Nicola Davies Shortlist <ref name=":14" /><ref name=":15" />
Eric Fan and Terry Fan Ocean Meets Sky Frances Lincoln — Shortlist <ref name=":14" /><ref name=":15" />
Maria Gulemetova Beyond the Fence Child's Play — Shortlist <ref name=":14" /><ref name=":15" />
Jessica Love Julian is a Mermaid Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":14" /><ref name=":15" />
Poonam Mistry You're Safe With Me Lantana Publishing Chitra Soundar Shortlist <ref name=":14" /><ref name=":15" />
David Roberts Suffragette: The Battle for Equality Two Hoots Shortlist <ref name=":14" /><ref name=":15" />

2020s

In 2020, Australian artist Shaun Tan became first BAME author to win the Greenaway Medal in its 64-year history.<ref name=":16">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2022, Long Way Down by Danica Novgorodoff became the first graphic novel to win the medal since Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas in 1973.<ref name=":17">Template:Cite news</ref> The 2023 medal also went to a graphic novel.<ref name="winner 2023">Template:Cite web</ref> In that year there were only six shortlisted nominees as opposed to the usual slate of eight.

Colour key:

Template:Color box – Medal Winner
Template:Color box – Shadowers' Choice Award winner if different from Medal winner
Medal winners and Shortlists, 2020-
Year Illustrator Title Publisher Author (if different) Result Ref.
2020 Shaun Tan Tales from the Inner City Walker Books — Winner <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name=":16" />
Kadir Nelson The Undefeated Andersen Press Kwame Alexander Shortlist & Shadowers' Choice Award <ref name=":18">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":19">Template:Cite web</ref>
Poonam Mistry You're Snug with Me Lantana Publishing Chitra Soundar Shortlist <ref name=":18" /><ref name=":19">Template:Cite web</ref>
Chris Mould The Iron Man Faber & Faber Ted Hughes Shortlist <ref name=":18" /><ref name=":19" />
Chris Naylor-Ballesteros The Suitcase Nosy Crow — Shortlist <ref name=":18" /><ref name=":19" />
Levi Pinfold The Dam Walker Books David Almond Shortlist <ref name=":18" /><ref name=":19" />
Júlia Sardà Mary and Frankenstein Andersen Press Linda Bailey Shortlist <ref name=":18" /><ref name=":19" />
Beth Waters Child of St Kilda Child's Play — Shortlist <ref name=":18">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":19" />
2021 Sydney Smith Small in the City Walker Books — Winner <ref name=":3">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":2">Template:Cite web</ref>
Sharon King-Chai Starbird Two Hoots — Shortlist & Shadowers' Choice Award <ref name=":20">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":21">Template:Cite web</ref>
Sara Lundberg The Bird Within Me Book Island — (translated by B. J. Epstein) Shortlist <ref name=":20" /><ref name=":21" />
Kate Milner It's a No-Money Day Barrington Stoke — Shortlist <ref name=":20" /><ref name=":21" />
Poonam Mistry How The Stars Came To Be Tate Publishing — Shortlist <ref name=":20" /><ref name=":21" />
Pete Oswald Hike Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":20" /><ref name=":21" />
David Ouimet I Go Quiet Canongate — Shortlist <ref name=":20" /><ref name=":21" />
Catherine Rayner Arlo The Lion Who Couldn't Sleep Pan Macmillan — Shortlist <ref name=":20" /><ref name=":21" />
2022 Danica Novgorodoff Long Way Down Faber & Faber Jason Reynolds Winner <ref name=":17" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Mariachiara Di Giorgio The Midnight Fair Walker Books Gideon Sterer Shortlist & Shadowers' Choice Award <ref name=":22">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":23">Template:Cite news</ref>
George Butler Drawn Across Borders Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":22">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":23">Template:Cite news</ref>
Emily Gravett Too Much Stuff Pan Macmillan — Shortlist <ref name=":22" /><ref name=":23" />
Christian Robinson Milo Imagines the World Pan Macmillan Matt de la Peña Shortlist <ref name=":22" /><ref name=":23" />
Yu Rong Shu Lin's Grandpa Otter-Barry Books Matt Goodfellow Shortlist <ref name=":22" /><ref name=":23" />
Sydney Smith I Talk Like a River Walker Books Jordan Scott Shortlist <ref name=":22" /><ref name=":23" />
Peter Van den Ende The Wanderer Pushkin Children's Books — (no text) Shortlist <ref name=":22" /><ref name=":23" />
2023 Jeet Zdung Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear Kingfisher Trang Nguyen Winner <ref name="winner 2023" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Joe Todd-Stanton The Comet Flying Eye Books — Shortlist & Shadowers' Choice Award <ref name=":24">Template:Cite web</ref>
Flora Delargy Rescuing Titanic Wide Eyed Editions — Shortlist <ref name=":24">Template:Cite web</ref>
Benjamin Phillips Alte Zachen: Old Things Cicada Ziggy Hanaor Shortlist <ref name=":24" />
Levi Pinfold The Worlds We Leave Behind Bloomsbury Children's Books A.F. Harrold Shortlist <ref name=":24" />
Yu Rong The Visible Sounds UCLan Jianling Yin Shortlist <ref name=":24" />
2024 Aaron Becker The Tree and the River Walker Books — Winner & Shadowers' Choice Award <ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref>
Catalina Echeverri April's Garden Graffeg Isla McGuckin Shortlist <ref name=":1" />
Mariajo Ilustrajo Lost Quarto — Shortlist <ref name=":1" />
Steve McCarthy The Wilderness Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":1" />
Erika Meza To the Other Side Hachette — Shortlist <ref name=":1" />
Poonam Mistry The Midnight Panther Bonnier — Shortlist <ref name=":1" />
Catherine Rayner The Bowerbird Macmillan Julia Donaldson Shortlist <ref name=":1" />
Chloe Savage The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish Walker Books — Shortlist <ref name=":1" />
2025 Olivia Lomenech Gill Clever Crow Walker Chris Butterworth Winner <ref name=":61">Template:Cite web</ref>
Theo Parish Homebody Macmillan — Shortlist & Shadowers' Choice Award <ref name=":61" />
Wen Hsu Chen The Invisible Story Lantana Jaime Gamboa, trans. by Daniel Hahn Shortlist <ref name=":61" />
Lauren Child Grey Walker Laura Dockrill Shortlist <ref name=":61" />
Mariajo Ilustrajo I Love Books Frances Lincoln — Shortlist <ref name=":61" />
Juan Palomino Letters in Charcoal Lantana Irene Vasco, trans. by Lawrence Schimel Shortlist <ref name=":61" />
Kate Rolfe Wolf and Bear Too Hoots — Shortlist <ref name=":61" />
Yu Rong Flying High UCLan Cao Wenxuan, trans. by Simone Monnelly Shortlist <ref name=":61" />

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