Costa Children's Book Award

Costa Children's Book Award
2017
Winner
The Explorer by Katherine Rundell

Shortlist
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
Wed Wabbit by Lissa Evans
The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

2016
Winner

The Bombs That Brought Us Together by Brian Conaghan

Shortlist
Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence
The Monstrous Child by Francesca Simon
Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford

2015
Winner

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge *

Shortlist
Sophie Someone by Hayley Long
An Island of Our Own by Sally Nicholls
Jessica's Ghost by Andrew Norriss

2014
Winner

Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders

Shortlist
Running Girl by Simon Mason
Listen to the Moon by Michael Morpurgo
The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick

2013
Winner

Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell

Shortlist
Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door by Ross Montgomery
The Hanged Man Rises by Sarah Naughton
Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein

2012
Winner

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner

Shortlist
The Seeing by Diana Hendry
What’s Up With Jody Barton? by Hayley Long
A Boy and a Bear in a Boat Rhymes by Dave Shelton

2011
Winner

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

Shortlist
Flip by Martyn Bedford
The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans

2010

Winner
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace

Shortlist
Flyaway by Lucy Christopher
Annexed by Sharon Dogar
Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon by Jonathon Stroud

2009
Winner

The Ask and the Answer: Chaos Walking, Book Two by Patrick Ness

Shortlist
Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd
Troubadour by Mary Hoffman
Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera

2008
Winner

Just Henry by Michelle Magorian

Shortlist
Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray
The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine

2007
Winner

The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley

Shortlist
Crusade by Elizabeth Laird
What I Was by Meg Rosoff
Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick

2006
Winner

Set in Stone by Linda Newbery

Shortlist
Clay by David Almond
The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding
Just in Case by Meg Rosoff

Whitbread Children's Book Award

2005
Winner

The New Policeman by Kate Thompson

Shortlist
Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean
Permanent Rose by Hilary McKay

2004

Winner
Not the End of the World by Geraldine McCaughrean

Shortlist
Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
No Shame, No Fear by Ann Turnbull

2003
Winner

The Fire-Eaters by David Almond

Shortlist
The Oracle by Catherine Fisher
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Naked Without a Hat by Jeanne Willis

2002
Winner

Saffy’s Angel by Hilary McKay

Shortlist
Exodus by Julie Bertagna
Sorceress by Celia Rees
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve

Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award

(1996-8 ineligible for Book of the Year Award)

2001
Winner

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman *

Shortlist
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
The Lady and the Squire by Terry Jones

2000
Winner

Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin

Shortlist
Heaven Eyes by David Almond
The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Troy by Adele Geras

1999
Winner

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban by JK Rowling

Shortlist
Meeting Midnight by Carol Ann Duffy
Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson

1998
Winner

Skellig by David Almond

Shortlist
Sweet Clarinet by James Riordan
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by JK Rowling
Abomination by Robert Swindells

1997
Winner

Aquila by Andrew Norriss

Shortlist
Junk by Melvin Burgess
Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech
Harry and the Wrinklies by Alan Temperley

1996
Winner

The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine

Shortlist
The Trokeville Way by Russell Hoban
Plundering Paradise by Geraldine McCaughrean
Clockwork or All Wound Up by Philip Pullman

Beefeater Children's Novel Award

1995
Winner

The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo

Shortlist
The Parsley Parcel by Elizabeth Arnold
Kasper in the Glitter by Philip Ridley

Whitbread Children's Novel Award

1994
Winner

Gold Dust by Geraldine McCaughrean

1993
Winner

Flour Babies by Anne Fine

1992
Winner

The Great Elephant Chase by Gillian Cross

1991
Winner

Harvey Angell by Diana Hendry

1990
Winner

AK by Peter Dickinson

1989
Winner

Why Weeps the Brogan? by Hugh Scott

1988
Winner

Awaiting Developments by Judy Allen

1987
Winner

A Little Lower than the Angels by Geraldine McCaughrean

1986
Winner

The Coal House by Andrew Taylor

1985
Winner

The Nature of the Beast by Janni Howker

1984
Winner

The Queen of the Pharisees' Children by Barbara Willard

1983
Winner

The Witches by Roald Dahl

1982
Winner

The Song of Pentecost by WJ Corbett

1981
Winner

The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam

1980
Winner

John Diamond by Leon Garfield

1979
Winner

Tulku by Peter Dickinson

Whitbread Children's Book Award

1978
Winner

The Battle of Bubble & Squeak by Philippa Pearce

1977
Winner

No End to Yesterday by Shelagh MacDonald

1976
Winner

A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively

1974
Winner

How Tom Beat Captain Najork & His Hired Sportsmen by Russell Hoban & Quentin Blake

1974
Winner

The Emperor's Winding Sheet by Jill Paton Walsh

1973
Winner

The Butterfly Ball & The Grasshopper's Feast by Alan Aldridge & William Plomer

1972
Winner

The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden

* Book of the Year