Winners
Through 2012 there have been 55 Medals awarded in 57 years, covering 1955 to 2011 publications approximately. No eligible book published in 1955 or 1958 was considered suitable.
Since 2007 the Medals are dated by the year of presentation; previously by the calendar year of British publication, which then defined the eligible works.
| Date | Illustrator | Title | distinct Author | |
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| 2012 | Jim Kay | A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness | 9+ |
| 2011 | Grahame Baker-Smith | FArTHER | — | 8+ |
| 2010 | Freya Blackwood | Harry and Hopper | Margaret Wild | 6+ |
| 2009 | Catherine Rayner | Harris Finds His Feet | — | 3+ |
| 2008 | Emily Gravett | Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears | — | 6+ |
| 2007 | Mini Grey | The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon | — | 6+ |
| 2006 The award date is the year of publication before 2006, the year of presentation after 2006. | ||||
| 2005 | Emily Gravett | Wolves | — | 6+ |
| 2004 | Chris Riddell | Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver" | Jonathan Swift (1726) adapted | 10+ |
| 2003 | Shirley Hughes | Ella's Big Chance | — (Cinderella adapted) | 6+ |
| 2002 | Bob Graham | Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child | — | 4+ |
| 2001 | Chris Riddell | Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter | Richard Platt (informational) |
8+ |
| 2000 * | Lauren Child | I will not ever Never eat a tomato | — | 3+ |
| 1999 * | Helen Oxenbury | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll (1865) | 8+ |
| 1998 | Helen Cooper | Pumpkin Soup | — | |
| 1997 | P. J. Lynch | When Jessie Came Across the Sea | Amy Hest | |
| 1996 | Helen Cooper | The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed | — | |
| 1995 | P. J. Lynch | The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey | Susan Wojciechowski | |
| 1994 | Gregory Rogers | Way Home | Libby Hathorn | |
| 1993 | Alan Lee | Black Ships Before Troy | Rosemary Sutcliff | — |
| 1992 | Anthony Browne | Zoo | — | |
| 1991 | Janet Ahlberg | The Jolly Christmas Postman | Allan Ahlberg | |
| 1990 | Gary Blythe | The Whales' Song | Dyan Sheldon | |
| 1989 | Michael Foreman | War Boy: A Country Childhood | — | |
| 1988 | Barbara Firth | Can't You Sleep Little Bear? | Martin Waddell | |
| 1987 | Adrienne Kennaway | Crafty Chameleon | Mwenye Hadithi | |
| 1986 | Fiona French | Snow White in New York | — | |
| 1985 | Juan Wijngaard | Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady | retold by Selena Hastings |
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| 1984 | Errol Le Cain | Hiawatha's Childhood | Longfellow (1855) | |
| 1983 * | Anthony Browne | Gorilla | — | 6+ |
| 1982 | Michael Foreman | Long Neck and Thunder Foot (and) Sleeping Beauty and other favourite fairy tales |
Helen Piers (and) traditional |
pb — |
| 1981 * | Charles Keeping | The Highwayman | Alfred Noyes (1906) | 10+ |
| 1980 * | Quentin Blake | Mr Magnolia | — | 3+ |
| 1979 | Jan Pieńkowski | Haunted House | — | |
| 1978 * | Janet Ahlberg | Each Peach Pear Plum | Allan Ahlberg | 1+ |
| 1977 * | Shirley Hughes | Dogger | — | 4+ |
| 1976 | Gail E. Haley | The Post Office Cat | — | pb |
| 1975 | Victor Ambrus | Horses in Battle (and) Mishka |
— (nonfiction) — |
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| 1974 | Pat Hutchins | The Wind Blew | — (informational) | |
| 1973 * | Raymond Briggs | Father Christmas | — | 6+ |
| 1972 | Krystyna Turska | The Woodcutter's Duck | — | |
| 1971 | Jan Pieńkowski | The Kingdom Under the Sea and other stories | retold by Joan Aiken |
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| 1970 | John Burningham | Mr Gumpy's Outing | — | |
| 1969 | Helen Oxenbury | The Quangle Wangle's Hat (and) The Dragon of an Ordinary Family |
Edward Lear (unknown); Margaret Mahy (1969) |
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| 1968 | Pauline Baynes | A Dictionary of Chivalry | Grant Uden (reference) | |
| 1967 | Charles Keeping | Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary | — | |
| 1966 | Raymond Briggs | Mother Goose Treasury | traditional | |
| 1965 | Victor Ambrus | The Three Poor Tailors | — | |
| 1964 | C. Walter Hodges | Shakespeare's Theatre | — (nonfiction) | |
| 1963 * | John Burningham | Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers | — | 4+ |
| 1962 | Brian Wildsmith | ABC (also Brian Wildsmith's ABC) | — (no text) | |
| 1961 | Antony Maitland | Mrs Cockle's Cat | Philippa Pearce | |
| 1960 | Gerald Rose | Old Winkle and the Seagulls | Elizabeth Rose | |
| 1959 | William Stobbs | Kashtanka (and) A Bundle of Ballads |
Anton Chekhov (1887); Ruth Manning-Sanders from the Child Ballads |
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| 1958 | (Prize withheld as no book considered suitable) | |||
| 1957 | V. H. Drummond | Mrs Easter and the Storks | — | |
| 1956 * | Edward Ardizzone | Tim All Alone | — | 4+ |
| 1955 | (Prize withheld as no book considered suitable) | |||
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- * named to the 50th Anniversary Top Ten in 2007.
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