Kate Greenaway Medal - Shortlists - 1955

1955

Prior to 1995 these listings cover only the Medalist and known Highly Commended (+) or Commended (–) books.

1955 (no Medal)

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.

1957 V. H. Drummond, Mrs Easter and the Storks (Faber) @ <-- Mrs Ian? Violet H. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85-212030 -->

1958 (no Medal)

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.

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.

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 general

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) @ —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 "Honors" 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 "Honors" 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.)

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.

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.

(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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

Oakley and the Church Mice 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. It also won the annual Kurt Maschler Award for integrated text and illustration.

Ten, Nine, Eight was also a runner up for the U.S. Caldecott Medal ("Honor 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 Selena 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 ( ), 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).

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 Pinnocchio ( ), an edition of the 1883 classic by Carlo Collodi
+ Alan Lee, Merlin Dreams ( ), by Peter Dickinson

Browne won the Emil for this edition of Alice (Kurt Maschler Award).

Special 1988 commendation: David Burnie, Bird (London: Dorling Kindersley, in association with the National History Museum)

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.

1990 Gary Blythe, The Whales' Song (Hutchinson), by Dyan Sheldon

– Nicola Bayley, The Mousehole Cat (Walker), by Antonia Barber
– Roberto Innocenti, A Christmas Carol ( ), an edition of the 1843 classic by Charles Dickens
+ Tony Ross, Dr Xargle's Book of Earth Tiggers ( ), by Jeanne Willis

1991 Janet Ahlberg, The Jolly Christmas Postman (Heinemann), by Allan Ahlberg

– Caroline Binch, Amazing Grace (Dial), by Mary Hoffman
+ Helen Oxenbury, Farmer Duck (Walker), by Martin Waddell

Ahlberg won her second medal, both for 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 Anthony Browne, Zoo (Julia MacRae) @

+ Jill Barton, The Pig in the Pond (Walker), by Martin Waddell
+ Caroline Binch, Hue Boy (Dial), by Rita Phillips Mitchell

Browne won his second medal.

1993 Alan Lee, Black Ships Before Troy (Frances Lincoln), by Rosemary Sutcliff

– Michael Foreman, War Game (Pavilion) @
+ Helen Oxenbury, The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig ( ), by Eugene Trivizas

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

1994 Gregory Rogers, Way Home (Andersen), by Libby Hathorn

+ Helen Oxenbury, So Much (Walker), by Trish Cooke
– Chris Riddell, Something Else (Puffin), by Kathryn Cave

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. Cooke and Oxenbury won the Emils for So Much (Kurt Maschler Award).

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