Charting the past 28 years since the Award has been running, we thought we would let you see the many authors and illustrators who have won this prestigious award.

1999

Overall Winner - Older Readers
HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS by J.K. Rowling - (Bloomsbury)
Winner of Younger Children
WHAT! by Kate Lum & Adrian Johnson - (Bloomsbury)
Winner of Younger Readers
LITTLE DAD by Pat Moon - (Mammoth)

1998

Overall Winner - Older Readers
HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE by J.K. Rowling - (Bloomsbury)
Winner of Younger Children
THE LION WHO WANTED TO LOVE by Giles Andreae & David Wojtowycz - (Orchard)
Winner of Younger Readers
NIGHTMARE STAIRS by Robert Swindells - (Doubleday)

1997

Overall Winner - Younger Readers
THE HUNDRED-MILE-AN-HOUR DOG by Jeremy Strong - (Viking)
Winner of Younger Children
MR. BEAR TO THE RESCUE by Debi Gliori - (Orchard)
Winner of Older Readers
WHICH WAY IS HOME by Ian Strachan - (Methuen)

1996

Overall Winner - Younger Readers
DOUBLE ACT by Jacqueline Wilson - (Doubleday)
Winner of Younger Children
SOLO by Paul Geraghty - (Hutchinson)
Winner of Older Readers
WRECK OF THE ZANZIBAR by Michael Morpurgo - (Heinemann)

1995

Overall Winner - Younger Readers
HARRIET'S HARE by Dick King-Smith - (Doubleday)
Winner of Younger Children
THE RASCALLY CAKE by Jeanne Willis & Korky Paul - (Andersen)
Winner of Older Readers
WALK TWO MOONS by Sharon Creech - (Macmillan)

1994

Overall Winner - Older Readers
BOY IN THE BUBBLE by Ian Strachan - (Methuen)
Winner of Younger Children
AMAZING ANTHONY ANT by Lorna & Graham Philpot - (Orion)
Winner of Younger Readers
THE FINDERS by Nigel Hinton - (Viking)

1993

Overall Winner - Younger Readers
THE SUITCASE KID by Jacqueline Wilson - (Doubleday)
Winner of Younger Children
SNOWY by Berlie Doherty - (Collins)
Winner of Older Readers
GULF by Robert Westall - (Methuen)

1992

Overall Winner - Older Readers
KISS THE DUST by Elizabeth Laird - (Methuen)
Winner of Younger Children
SHHH! by Sally Grindley & Peter Utton - (ABC)
Winner of Younger Readers
FIND THE WHITE HORSE by Dick King-Smith - (Viking)

For all books from 1991 back to the beginning of the Award there was only one overall winner. Categories were introduced in 1992.

1991

Winner
THREADBEAR by Mick Inkpen - (Hodder)

1990

Winner
ROOM 13 by Robert Swindells - (Doubleday)

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