Winners
Through 2011 there have been 47 Prizes awarded in 45 years (1966 to 2011 publications, approximately). There were co-winners in 1992 and 1996.
| Date | Author | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Frank Cottrell Boyce | The Unforgotten Coat | Walker Books |
| 2011 | Andy Mulligan | Return To Ribblestrop | Simon & Schuster |
| 2010 | Michelle Paver | Ghost Hunter | Orion |
| 2009 | Mal Peet | Exposure | Walker Books |
| 2008 | Patrick Ness | The Knife of Never Letting Go | Walker Books |
| 2007 | Jenny Valentine | Finding Violet Park | HarperCollins |
| 2006 | Philip Reeve | A Darkling Plain | Scholastic UK |
| 2005 | Kate Thompson | The New Policeman | Bodley Head |
| 2004 | Meg Rosoff | How I Live Now | Puffin |
| 2003 | Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | David Fickling |
| 2002 | Sonya Hartnett | Thursday's Child | Walker Books |
| 2001 | Kevin Crossley-Holland | The Seeing Stone | Orion |
| 2000 | Jacqueline Wilson | The Illustrated Mum | Transworld |
| 1999 | Susan Price | The Sterkarm Handshake | Scholastic UK |
| 1998 | Henrietta Branford | Fire, Bed and Bone | Walker Books |
| 1997 | Melvin Burgess | Junk | Penguin |
| 1996 | Philip Pullman | Northern Lights (US title, The Golden Compass) |
Scholastic UK |
| 1996 | Alison Prince | The Sherwood Hero | Macmillan |
| 1995 | Lesley Howarth | MapHead | Walker Books |
| 1994 | Sylvia Waugh | The Mennyms | Julia MacRae |
| 1993 | William Mayne | Low Tide | Jonathan Cape |
| 1992 | Rachel Anderson | Paper Faces | Oxford |
| 1992 | Hilary McKay | The Exiles | Gollancz |
| 1991 | Robert Westall | The Kingdom by the Sea | Methuen |
| 1990 | Anne Fine | Goggle-Eyes | Hamish Hamilton |
| 1989 | Geraldine McCaughrean | A Pack of Lies | Oxford |
| 1988 | Ruth Thomas | The Runaways | Hutchinson |
| 1987 | James Aldridge | The True Story of Spit MacPhee | Viking Kestrel |
| 1986 | Ann Pilling | Henry's Leg | Viking Kestrel |
| 1985 | Ted Hughes | What is the Truth | Faber |
| 1984 | Dick King-Smith | The Sheep-Pig (US title, Babe, the Gallant Pig) |
Gollancz |
| 1983 | Anita Desai | The Village by the Sea | Heinemann |
| 1982 | Michelle Magorian | Goodnight Mr Tom | Kestrel |
| 1981 | Peter Carter | The Sentinels | Oxford |
| 1980 | Ann Schlee | The Vandal | Macmillan |
| 1979 | Andrew Davies | Conrad's War | Blackie |
| 1978 | Diana Wynne Jones | Charmed Life | Macmillan |
| 1977 | Peter Dickinson | The Blue Hawk | Gollancz |
| 1976 | Nina Bawden | The Peppermint Pig | Gollancz |
| 1975 | Winifred Cawley | Gran at Coalgate | Oxford |
| 1974 | Barbara Willard | The Iron Lily | Longman |
| 1973 | Richard Adams | Watership Down | Rex Collings |
| 1972 | Gillian Avery | A Likely Lad | Collins |
| 1971 | John Christopher | The Guardians | Hamish Hamilton |
| 1970 | K. M. Peyton | The Flambards trilogy (1967–1969) | Oxford |
| 1969 | Joan Aiken | The Whispering Mountain | Jonathan Cape |
| 1968 | Alan Garner | The Owl Service | Collins |
| 1967 | Leon Garfield | Devil-in-the-Fog | Constable |
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