Charles Keeping - Awards

Awards

Keeping won several awards for book illustration.

• 1967 Kate Greenaway Medal, Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary, written by Keeping
• 1972 Francis Williams Award for Illustration, Tinker Tailor: Folk Song Tales (New York: World), tunes "arranged for voice and piano by K. Neil Slater" (WorldCat)
• 1977 Francis Williams Award for Illustration, The Wildman, written by Kevin Crossley-Holland
• 1981 Kate Greenaway Medal, The Highwayman, written by Alfred Noyes (1906)
• 1987 Kurt Maschler Award, Jack the Treacle Eater, written by Charles Causley
• 1988 W H Smith Illustration Award, Charles Keeping's Classic Tales of the Macabre, written by various authors

Keeping was also a runner up for at least three Greenaway Medals, which then recognised the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject:

• 1969, Joseph's Yard, written by himself
• 1970, The God Beneath the Sea, written by Edward Blishen and Leon Garfield (who jointly won the annual British Carnegie Medal in Literature)
• 1974, Railway Passage (Oxford), written by himself

Railway Passage was the first runner up "Highly Commended" for the Medal. Both distinctions were abandoned after 2002.