Kate Greenaway Medal - 50-year Greenaway of Greenaways (2007)

50-year Greenaway of Greenaways (2007)

For the 50th anniversary, CILIP posted online information about all of the winning works (1955–2005) and conducted a poll to identify the nation's favourite Kate Greenaway Medalist. The winner was announced 21 June 2007 at the British Library. By less than one percentage point Dogger, illustrated and written by Shirley Hughes (1977), outpolled Each Peach Pear Plum illustrated by Janet Ahlberg and written by Allan Ahlberg (1978).

The nation, and international voters too, considered a ballot or all-time shortlist comprising ten of the 53 Medal-winning works, selected by six "children's book experts". The panel provided annotations including recommended ages that range from 1+ to 10+ years; age 4+ for the winner.

50th Anniversary Top Ten

• Janet Ahlberg, Each Peach Pear Plum (Kestrel, 1978), written by Allan Ahlberg
• Edward Ardizzone, Tim All Alone (Oxford, 1956)
• Quentin Blake, Mr Magnolia (Jonathan Cape, 1980)
• Raymond Briggs, Father Christmas (Hamish Hamilton, 1973)
• Anthony Browne, Gorilla (Julia MacRae, 1983)
• John Burningham, Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers (Jonathan Cape, 1963)
• Lauren Child, I will not ever Never eat a tomato (Orchard, 2000)
• Shirley Hughes, Dogger (Bodley Head, 1977)
• Charles Keeping, The Highwayman (Oxford, 1981), an edition of the 1906 poem by Alfred Noyes
• Helen Oxenbury, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Walker, 1999), an edition of the 1865 novel by Lewis Carroll