A panel of 12 children's librarians in CILIP's youth interest group judges both the Carnegie and Greenaway books.
"[5] CILIP specifies numerous points of artistic style, format, and visual experience, and also "synergy of illustration and text" that should be considered.
Illustrated work needs to be considered primarily in terms of its graphic elements, and where text exists particular attention should be paid to the synergy between the two.
Only A Monster Calls (Walker Books, 2011), by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay, has won both the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for writing and illustration (2012).
Indeed, This Is Not My Hat was released in Britain and America on the same day, 9 October 2012, by Walker Books and its American subsidiary Candlewick Press.
[12] Walker Books, based in London, with American subsidiary Candlewick Press in Somerville, MA, has published 10 of the 30 Greenaway Medal-winning works from 1985 to 2014.
For the 50th medal anniversary,[a] 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.
[16][17] The nation, and international voters too, considered a ballot or all-time shortlist comprising ten of the 50 Medal-winning works, selected by six "children's book experts".
[12][19] Illustrator Harold Jones received a Special Commendation for the 1954 Carnegie Medal, for his part in Lavender's Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes, compiled by Kathleen Lines (Oxford) — a 180-page collection named for "Lavender's Blue", which Oxford University Press has reprinted many times.
[12] 1960 Gerald Rose, Old Winkle and the Seagulls (Faber), by Elizabeth Rose 1961 Antony Maitland, Mrs Cockle's Cat (Constable; Longman), by Philippa Pearce 1962 Brian Wildsmith, ABC (Oxford) @ ABC was Wildsmith's first book, an alphabet book without any words, commissioned by Mabel George at Oxford.
1966 Raymond Briggs, Mother Goose Treasury (Hamish Hamilton), traditional 1967 Charles Keeping, Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary (Oxford) @ 1968 Pauline Baynes, A Dictionary of Chivalry (Longman), by Grant Uden —reference Baynes alone has won the medal for illustrating a reference book; only a few nonfiction or fictionalised information books have been cited.
1971 Jan Pieńkowski, The Kingdom under the Sea and other stories (Jonathan Cape), retold by Joan Aiken (One source calls these two runners-up "Highly Commended".
[citation needed] (According to answers.com citing Gale Biographies, Anno's Alphabet was ineligible for the medal, with its Japanese author and original publisher.)
Horses in Battle, nonfiction or fictionalised history, is the latest "information book" to be cited except for one, Pirate Diary (2001).
[8] 1982 Michael Foreman, Long Neck and Thunder Foot (Kestrel), by Helen Piers and Sleeping Beauty and other favourite fairy tales (Gollancz), selected and translated by Angela Carter The 1982 medal recognised two books, the last of four times from 1959.
Sleeping Beauty also won the inaugural Kurt Maschler Award for children's book "text and illustration ... integrated so that each enhances and balances the other.
1984 Errol Le Cain, Hiawatha's Childhood (Faber), a section of the 1855 poem by Longfellow 1985 Juan Wijngaard, Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (Walker), retold by Selina Hastings 1986 Fiona French, Snow White in New York (Oxford) @ The Ahlbergs won the Emils for The Jolly Postman (Kurt Maschler Award).
[22] 1987 Adrienne Kennaway, Crafty Chameleon (Hodder & Stoughton), by Mwenye Hadithi 1988 Barbara Firth, Can't You Sleep Little Bear?
(Walker), by Martin Waddell Browne won an Emil for this edition of Alice (Kurt Maschler Award).
[22] In 1995 Patrick Benson and author Kathy Henderson won the Emils (Kurt Maschler Award) for The Little Boat.
The final year of the decade saw Helen Oxenbury win her second Greenaway Medal for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which would go onto be named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.
[22] Colour key: Thanks to a bequest left in 2000 by children’s book and illustration collector, Colin Mears, the winner now receives a cheque for £5000 along with the Greenaway Medal.
The winning book in the year 2000, I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007, and ranked third in public voting from that slate.
Riddell was the third and latest illustrator to be at least commended for the Greenaway for books in a series, following Graham Oakley (Church Mice, 1976 and 1982) and Janet Ahlberg (Jolly Postman, 1986 and 1991).
Twenty-six years after her first medal, 2003 marked a second win for Shirley Hughes and Ella's Big Chance —a retelling of Cinderella.
Colour key: In 2012, Jim Kay and Patrick Ness won both the Greenaway and Carnegie Medals for A Monster Calls, the first such double.
Prior to this, two illustrators of Carnegie Medal-winning books had been runners-up for the Greenaway, namely Charles Keeping (The God Beneath the Sea, 1970) and Michael Foreman (City of Gold, 1980).
"[75] In 2016 There’s a Bear on My Chair received the inaugural honour[76] and in 2017 the winner was The Journey, illustrated and written by Italian artist Francesca Sanna, which followed a family of refugees.
[80][81] Colour key: In 2020, Australian artist Shaun Tan became first BAME author to win the Greenaway Medal in its 64-year history.