Costa Book Award for Children's Book

The Costa Book Award for Children's Book, formerly known as the Whitbread Award (1971–2005), was an annual literary award for children's books, part of the Costa Book Awards, which were discontinued in 2022, the 2021 awards being the last made.^[1]

Recipients

Costa Book Award for Children's Book winners and finalists^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1972	Rumer Godden	The Diddakoi	Winner
1973	Alan Aldridge and William Plomer	The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast	Winner
1974	Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake	How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen	Winner
	Jill Paton Walsh	The Emperor's Winding Sheet	Winner
1975	No award presented in 1975
1976	Penelope Lively	A Stitch in Time	Winner
1977	Shelagh Macdonald	No End to Yesterday	Winner
1978	Philippa Pearce	The Battle of Bubble & Squeak	Winner
1979	Peter Dickinson	Tulku	Winner
1980	Leon Garfield	John Diamond	Winner
1981	Jane Gardam	The Hollow Land	Winner
1982	W. J. Corbett	The Song of Pentecost	Winner
1983	Roald Dahl	The Witches	Winner
1984	Barbara Willard	The Queen of the Pharisees' Children	Winner
1985	Janni Howker	The Nature of the Beast	Winner
1986	Andrew Taylor	The Coal House	Winner
1987	Geraldine McCaughrean	A Little Lower than the Angels	Winner
1988	Judy Allen	Awaiting Developments	Winner
1989	Hugh Scott	Why Weeps the Brogan	Winner
1990	Peter Dickinson	AK	Winner
1991	Diana Hendry	Harvey Angell	Winner
1992	Gillian Cross	The Great Elephant Chase	Winner
1993	Anne Fine	Flour Babies	Winner
1994	Geraldine McCaughrean	Gold Dust	Winner
1995	Michael Morpurgo	The Wreck of the Zanzibar	Winner
	Elizabeth Arnold	The Parsley Parcel	Shortlist
	Philip Ridley	Kasper in the Glitter
1996	Anne Fine	The Tulip Touch	Winner
	Russell Hoban	The Trokeville Way	Shortlist
	Geraldine McCaughrean	Plundering Paradise
	Philip Pullman	Clockwork or All Wound Up
1997	Andrew Norriss	Aquila	Winner
	Alan Temperley	Harry and the Wrinklies	Shortlist
	Sharon Creech	Chasing Redbird
	Melvin Burgess	Junk
1998	David Almond	Skellig	Winner
	Robert Swindells	Abomination	Shortlist
	J. K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
	James Riordan	Sweet Clarinet
1999	J.K. Rowling	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Winner
	Carol Ann Duffy	Meeting Midnight	Shortlist
	Michael Morpurgo	Kensuke's Kingdom
	Jacqueline Wilson	The Illustrated Mum
2000	Jamila Gavin	Coram Boy	Winner
	David Almond	Heaven Eyes	Shortlist
	Kevin Crossley-Holland	The Seeing Stone
	Adéle Geras	Troy
2001	Philip Pullman	The Amber Spyglass	Winner
	Eoin Colfer	Artemis Fowl	Shortlist
	Eva Ibbotson	Journey to the River Sea
	Terry Jones	The Lady and the Squire
2002	Hilary McKay	Saffy's Angel	Winner
	Julie Bertagna	Exodus	Shortlist
	Celia Rees	Sorceress
	Philip Reeve	Mortal Engines
2003	David Almond	The Fire-Eaters	Winner
	Catherine Fisher	The Oracle	Shortlist
	Michael Morpurgo	Private Peaceful
	Jeanne Willis	Naked Without a Hat		[3]
2004	Geraldine McCaughrean	Not the End of the World	Winner
	Anne Cassidy	Looking for JJ	Shortlist
	Meg Rosoff	How I Live Now
	Ann Turnbull	No Shame, No Fear
2005	Kate Thompson	The New Policeman	Winner
	Frank Cottrell Boyce	Framed	Shortlist
	Geraldine McCaughrean	The White Darkness
	Hilary McKay	Permanent Rose
2006	Linda Newbery	Set in Stone	Winner
	David Almond	Clay	Shortlist	[4]
	Julia Golding	The Diamond of Drury Lane		[4]
	Meg Rosoff	Just in Case		[4]
2007	Ann Kelley	The Bower Bird	Winner	[5]
	Elizabeth Laird	Crusade	Shortlist
	Meg Rosoff	What I Was
	Marcus Sedgwick	Blood Red Snow White
2008	Michelle Magorian	Just Henry	Winner	[6]
	Keith Gray	Ostrich Boys	Shortlist
	Saci Lloyd	The Carbon Diaries: 2015
	Jenny Valentine	Broken Soup
2009	Patrick Ness	The Ask and the Answer	Winner	[7]
	Siobhan Dowd	Solace of the Road	Shortlist
	Mary Hoffman	Troubadour
	Anna Perera	Guantanamo Boy
2010	Jason Wallace	Out of Shadows	Winner	[8]
	Lucy Christopher	Flyaway	Shortlist	[9]
	Sharon Dogar	Annexed		[9]
	Jonathan Stroud	Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon		[9]
2011	Moira Young	Blood Red Road	Winner	[10]
	Martyn Bedford	Flip	Shortlist	[11]
	Frank Cottrell Boyce	The Unforgotten Coat		[11]
	Lissa Evans	Small Change for Stuart		[11]
2012	Sally Gardner	Maggot Moon	Winner	[12]
	Diana Hendry	The Seeing	Shortlist
	Hayley Long	What’s Up with Jody Barton?
	Dave Shelton	A Boy and a Bear in a Boat
2013	Chris Riddell	Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse	Winner	[13][14]
	Ross Montgomery	Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door	Shortlist	[15]
	Sarah Naughton	The Hanged Man Rises
	Elizabeth Wein	Rose Under Fire
2014	Kate Saunders	Five Children on the Western Front	Winner	[16][17]
	Simon Mason	Running Girl	Shortlist	[18]
	Michael Morpurgo	Listen to the Moon
	Marcus Sedgwick	The Ghosts of Heaven
2015	Frances Hardinge	The Lie Tree	Winner	[19]
	Hayley Long	Sophie Someone	Shortlist	[20]
	Sally Nicholls	An Island of Our Own		[20]
	Andrew Norriss	Jessica's Ghost		[20]
2016	Brian Conaghan	The Bombs That Brought Us Together	Winner	[21]
	Ross Welford	Time Travelling With a Hamster	Shortlist	[22]
	Francesca Simon	The Monstrous Child		[22]
2017	Katherine Rundell	The Explorer	Winner	[23]
	Sarah Crossan	Moonrise	Shortlist	[24]
	Lissa Evans	Wed Wabbit		[24]
	Millwood Hargrave	The Island at the End of Everything		[24]
	Katherine Rundell	The Explorers		[24]
2018	Hilary McKay	The Skylarks' War	Winner	[25][26]
	David Almond	The Colour of the Sun	Shortlist	[27]
	Candy Gourlay	Bone Talk		[27]
	Matt Killeen	Orphan Monster Spy		[27]
2019	Jasbinder Bilan	Asha & the Spirit Bird	Winner	[28]
	Malorie Blackman	Crossfire	Shortlist	[29]
	Nicholas Bowling	In the Shadow of Heroes		[29]
	Jenny Downham	Furious Thing		[29]
2020	Natasha Farrant	Voyage of the Sparrowhawk	Winner	[30]
	Darren Charlton	Wranglestone	Shortlist	[31]
	Jenny Pearson	The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates		[31]
	Meg Rosoff	The Great Godden		[31]
2021	Manjeet Mann	The Crossing	Winner	[32]
	Anna Goodall	Maggie Blue and the Dark World	Shortlist	[33]
	Ross Montgomery	The Midnight Guardians		[33]
	Helen Rutter	The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh		[33]