Costa Book Award for Children's Book
# Costa Book Award for Children's Book

The Costa Book Award for Children's Book, formerly known as the Whitbread Award (1971-2006), 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.

## Recipients

Costa Book Award for Children's Book winners and finalists :

| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| - | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| 1974 | Jill Paton Walsh | The Emperor's Winding Sheet | Winner |
| 1975 | No award presented in 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 |
| 1995 | Elizabeth Arnold | The Parsley Parcel | Shortlist |
| 1995 | Philip Ridley | Kasper in the Glitter | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Anne Fine | The Tulip Touch | Winner |
| 1996 | Russell Hoban | The Trokeville Way | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Geraldine McCaughrean | Plundering Paradise | Shortlist |
| 1996 | Philip Pullman | Clockwork or All Wound Up | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Andrew Norriss | Aquila | Winner |
| 1997 | Alan Temperley | Harry and the Wrinklies | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Sharon Creech | Chasing Redbird | Shortlist |
| 1997 | Melvin Burgess | Junk | Shortlist |
| 1998 | David Almond | Skellig | Winner |
| 1998 | Robert Swindells | Abomination | Shortlist |
| 1998 | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Shortlist |
| 1998 | James Riordan | Sweet Clarinet | Shortlist |
| 1999 | J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Winner |
| 1999 | Carol Ann Duffy | Meeting Midnight | Shortlist |
| 1999 | Michael Morpurgo | Kensuke's Kingdom | Shortlist |
| 1999 | Jacqueline Wilson | The Illustrated Mum | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Jamila Gavin | Coram Boy | Winner |
| 2000 | David Almond | Heaven Eyes | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Kevin Crossley-Holland | The Seeing Stone | Shortlist |
| 2000 | Adéle Geras | Troy | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Philip Pullman | The Amber Spyglass | Winner |
| 2001 | Eoin Colfer | Artemis Fowl | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Eva Ibbotson | Journey to the River Sea | Shortlist |
| 2001 | Terry Jones | The Lady and the Squire | Shortlist |
| 2002 | Hilary McKay | Saffy's Angel | Winner |
| 2002 | Julie Bertagna | Exodus | Shortlist |
| 2002 | Celia Rees | Sorceress | Shortlist |
| 2002 | Philip Reeve | Mortal Engines | Shortlist |
| 2003 | David Almond | The Fire-Eaters | Winner |
| 2003 | Catherine Fisher | The Oracle | Shortlist |
| 2003 | Michael Morpurgo | Private Peaceful | Shortlist |
| 2003 | Jeanne Willis | Naked Without a Hat | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Geraldine McCaughrean | Not the End of the World | Winner |
| 2004 | Anne Cassidy | Looking for JJ | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Rosoff | How I Live Now | Shortlist |
| 2004 | Ann Turnbull | No Shame, No Fear | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Kate Thompson | The New Policeman | Winner |
| 2005 | Frank Cottrell Boyce | Framed | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Geraldine McCaughrean | The White Darkness | Shortlist |
| 2005 | Hilary McKay | Permanent Rose | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Linda Newbery | Set in Stone | Winner |
| 2006 | David Almond | Clay | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Julia Golding | The Diamond of Drury Lane | Shortlist |
| 2006 | Meg Rosoff | Just in Case | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Ann Kelley | The Bower Bird | Winner |
| 2007 | Elizabeth Laird | Crusade | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Meg Rosoff | What I Was | Shortlist |
| 2007 | Marcus Sedgwick | Blood Red Snow White | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Michelle Magorian | Just Henry | Winner |
| 2008 | Keith Gray | Ostrich Boys | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Saci Lloyd | The Carbon Diaries: 2015 | Shortlist |
| 2008 | Jenny Valentine | Broken Soup | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Patrick Ness | The Ask and the Answer | Winner |
| 2009 | Siobhan Dowd | Solace of the Road | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Mary Hoffman | Troubadour | Shortlist |
| 2009 | Anna Perera | Guantanamo Boy | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Jason Wallace | Out of Shadows | Winner |
| 2010 | Lucy Christopher | Flyaway | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Sharon Dogar | Annexed | Shortlist |
| 2010 | Jonathan Stroud | Bartimaeus: The Ring of Solomon | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Moira Young | Blood Red Road | Winner |
| 2011 | Martyn Bedford | Flip | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Frank Cottrell Boyce | The Unforgotten Coat | Shortlist |
| 2011 | Lissa Evans | Small Change for Stuart | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Sally Gardner | Maggot Moon | Winner |
| 2012 | Diana Hendry | The Seeing | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Hayley Long | What’s Up with Jody Barton? | Shortlist |
| 2012 | Dave Shelton | A Boy and a Bear in a Boat | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Chris Riddell | Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse | Winner |
| 2013 | Ross Montgomery | Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Sarah Naughton | The Hanged Man Rises | Shortlist |
| 2013 | Elizabeth Wein | Rose Under Fire | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Kate Saunders | Five Children on the Western Front | Winner |
| 2014 | Simon Mason | Running Girl | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Michael Morpurgo | Listen to the Moon | Shortlist |
| 2014 | Marcus Sedgwick | The Ghosts of Heaven | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Frances Hardinge | The Lie Tree | Winner |
| 2015 | Hayley Long | Sophie Someone | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Sally Nicholls | An Island of Our Own | Shortlist |
| 2015 | Andrew Norriss | Jessica's Ghost | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Brian Conaghan | The Bombs That Brought Us Together | Winner |
| 2016 | Ross Welford | Time Travelling With a Hamster | Shortlist |
| 2016 | Francesca Simon | The Monstrous Child | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Katherine Rundell | The Explorer | Winner |
| 2017 | Sarah Crossan | Moonrise | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Lissa Evans | Wed Wabbit | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Millwood Hargrave | The Island at the End of Everything | Shortlist |
| 2017 | Katherine Rundell | The Explorers | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Hilary McKay | The Skylarks' War | Winner |
| 2018 | David Almond | The Colour of the Sun | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Candy Gourlay | Bone Talk | Shortlist |
| 2018 | Matt Killeen | Orphan Monster Spy | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Jasbinder Bilan | Asha & the Spirit Bird | Winner |
| 2019 | Malorie Blackman | Crossfire | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Nicholas Bowling | In the Shadow of Heroes | Shortlist |
| 2019 | Jenny Downham | Furious Thing | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Natasha Farrant | Voyage of the Sparrowhawk | Winner |
| 2020 | Darren Charlton | Wranglestone | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Jenny Pearson | The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates | Shortlist |
| 2020 | Meg Rosoff | The Great Godden | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Manjeet Mann | The Crossing | Winner |
| 2021 | Anna Goodall | Maggie Blue and the Dark World | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Ross Montgomery | The Midnight Guardians | Shortlist |
| 2021 | Helen Rutter | The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh | Shortlist |
