The first award was made to Edward Ardizzone for ''Tim All Alone'' in 1956 . The winner receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a Library of their choice.
Since 2000 , the recipient of the Kate Greenaway Medal has also been presented with the Colin Mears Award to the value of £5000.
It is interesting to note that the award was not given in 1955 or 1958 , since no book was considered suitable - which points to a very different era of children's illustrated literature.
- 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''
- 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 , ''Mr Magnolia''
- 1979 Jan Pienkowski , ''The 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 Pienkowski , ''The Kingdom under the Sea''
- 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 , ''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. W. Hodges , ''Shakespeare's Theatre''
- 1963 John Burningham , ''Borka: the Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers''
- 1962 Brian Wildsmith , ''A.B.C''
- 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 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
- 1957 V. H. Drummond , ''Mrs Easter and the Storks''
- 1956 Edward Ardizzone , ''Tim All Alone''
- 1955 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
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