Kate Greenaway Medal Award Winners, 2000- Present
The Kate Greenaway Medal, established in 1956 in honor of the children's book illustrator Kate Greenaway, is an annual award that is presented to an illustrator of children's literature in the UK who exhibits outstanding work. The winner of the award receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to donate to the library of their choice.
A listing of the Kate Greenaway Medal winners housed in the Curriculum Materials/Media Center is below. These books are organized according to the Library of Congress system of classification.
| Award Date | Title/ Author and Illustrator | Call Number |
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2011 |
PZ7 .B1782 FAR 2010 |
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2010 |
Harry & Hopper / Wild, Margaret. One day when Harry comes home from school, his faithful companion Hopper isn't there to greet him, in a touching story about the process of healing after losing a beloved pet. |
PZ7 .W64574 HAR 2011 |
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2009 |
Harris finds his feet / Catherine Rayner. Harris, a very small hare with very big feet, has an elderly Grandad who teaches him the many uses of big, strong feet and other important life lessons. |
PZ7 .R2297 HAR 2008 |
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2008 |
Little Mouse's big book of fears / Emily Gravett. Little Mouse draws pictures of some of the many things he is afraid of, including creepy crawlies, sharp knives, and having accidents, and provides the correct scientific name for each of his fears. |
PZ7.G77577 EM 2008 |
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2007 |
The adventures of the dish and the spoon / Mini Grey Having run away together, the Dish and the Spoon from the nursery rhyme "The Cat and the Fiddle" become vaudeville stars before turning to a life of crime. |
PZ7 .G873 AD 2006 |
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2005 |
PZ7 .G72 WO 2005 |
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2004 |
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver / retold by Martin Jenkins ; illustrated by Chris Riddell The voyages of an eighteenth-century Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants. |
PZ7.J41733 GU 2004 |
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2003 |
Ella's big chance : a Jazz-Age Cinderella / written and illustrated by Shirley Hughes In this version of the Cinderella tale set in the 1920s, Ella has two men courting her--the handsome Duke of Arc and Buttons the delivery boy. |
PZ8.H873 EL 2004 |
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2002 |
Jethro Byrd, fairy child / Bob Graham Annabelle finds a family of fairies in the cement and weeds, and they sing and dance for her when she gives them tea. |
PZ7.G7516665 JE 2002 |
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2001 |
Pirate diary : the journal of Jake Carpenter / Richard Platt ; illustrated by Chris Riddell |
PZ7.P71295 PI 2001 |
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2000 |
I will never not ever eat a tomato / Lauren Child A fussy eater decides to sample the carrots after her brother convinces her that they are really orange twiglets from Jupiter. |
PZ7.C4383 IL 2000 |