2014 This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen (Walker Books)
2013 Black Dog by Levi Pinfold (Templar)
2012 A Monster Calls by Jim Kay (Walker Books)
2011 FArTHER by Grahame Baker-Smith (Templar)
2010 Harry & Hopper by Freya Blackwood (Scholastic)
2009 Harris Find His Feet by Catherine Rayner (Little Tiger Press)
2008 Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett (Macmillan)
2007 The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon by Mini Grey (Jonathan Cape) 2005 Wolves by Emily Gravett (Macmillan)

2004 Jonathan Swift's “Gulliver” by Chris Riddell (Walker Books) 2003 Ella's Big Chance by Shirley Hughes (The Bodley Head) 2002 Jethro Byrde- Fairy Child by Bob Graham (Walker Books) 2001 Pirate Diary by Chris Riddell (Walker Books)

2000 I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child (Orchard Books) 1999 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Helen Oxenbury (Walker Books) 1998 Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper (Doubleday)
1997 When Jessie Came Across the Se by P J Lynch (Walker Books)

1996 The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed by Helen Cooper (Doubleday)
1995 The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by P J Lynch (Walker Books) 1994 Way Home by Gregory Rogers (Andersen Press)
1993 Black Ships Before Troy by Alan Lee (Frances Lincoln)

1992 Zoo by Anthony Browne (Julia MacRae)
1991 The Jolly Christmas Postman by Janet Ahlberg (Heinemann)
1990 The Whales' Song by Gary Blythe (Hutchinson)
1989 War Boy: a Country Childhood by Michael Foreman (Pavilion)
1988 Can't You Sleep Little Bear? by Barbara Firth (Walker Books)
1987 Crafty Chameleon by Adrienne Kennaway (Hodder & Stoughton)
1986 Snow White in New York by Fiona French (OUP)
1985 Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady by Juan Wijngaard (Walker Books)
1984 Hiawatha's Childhood by Errol Le Cain (Faber)
1983 Gorilla by Anthony Browne (Julia MacRae)
1982 Long Neck and Thunder Foot and Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales by Michael Foreman (Kestrel and Gollancz)
1981 The Highwayman by Charles Keeping (OUP)
1980 Mr Magnolia by Quentin Blake (Cape)
1979 The Haunted House by Jan Pienkowski (Heinemann)
1978 Each Peach Pear Plum Janet Ahlberg (Kestrel)
1977 Dogger by Shirley Hughes (Bodley Head)
1976 The Post Office Cat by Gail E Haley (Bodley Head)
1975 Horses in Battle and Mishka by Victor Ambrus (OUP)
1974 The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins (Bodley Head)
1973 Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs (H Hamilton)
1972 The Woodcutter's Duck by Krystyna Turska (H Hamilton)
1971 The Kingdom Under the Sea by Jan Pienkowski (Cape)
1970 Mr Gumpy's Outing by John Burningham (Cape)
1969 The Quangle Wangle's Hat and The Dragon of an Ordinary Family by Helen Oxenbury (Heinemann)
1968 Dictionary of Chivalry by Pauline Baynes (Longman)
1967 Charlotte and the Golden Canary by Charles Keeping (OUP)
1966 Mother Goose Treasury by Raymond Briggs (H Hamilton)
1965 The Three Poor Tailors by Victor Ambrus (OUP)
1964 Shakespeare's Theatre by C W Hodges (OUP)
1963 Borka: the Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers by John Burningham (Cape)
1962 A.B.C by Brian Wildsmith (OUP)
1961 Mrs. Cockle's Cat by Antony Maitland (Constable)
1960 Old Winkle and the Seagulls by Gerald Rose (Faber)
1959 Kashtanka and a Bundle of Ballads by William Stobbs (OUP)
1958 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1957 Mrs Easter and the Storks by V. H. Drummond (Faber)
1956 Tim All Alone by Edward Ardizzone (OUP)
1955 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable