The Whitbread Children's Book of the Year
The Whitbread awards started in 1971 and the first award for a children's novel was given in 1972. The format changed in 1985 when the Whitbread Book of the Year was launched, and in 1996, children’s books were taken out of the main category and given a prize of their own. Qualifying books must be written by authors who have been resident in the UK or Eire for three years and whose book has been published between 1 November and 31 October of the year of the prize.
Full list of winners
2001 Philip Pullman The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials) (Shcolastic)
2000 Jamila Gavin Coram Boy (Mammoth)
1999 J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Bloomsbury)
1998 David Almond Skellig (Hodder Children's Books)
1997 Andrew Norriss Aquila (Puffin)
1996 Anne Fine The Tulip Touch (Hamish Hamilton)
1995 Michael Morpurgo The Wreck of the Zanzibar (Methuen)
1994 Geraldine McCaughrean Gold Dust (Oxford University Press)
1993 Anne Fine Flour Babies (Hamish Hamilton)
1992 Gillian Cross The Great Elephant Chase (Oxford University Press)
1991 Diana Hendry Harvey Angell (Julia MacRae)
1990 Peter Dickinson AK (Gollancz)
1989 Hugh Scott Why Weeps the Brogan (Walker Books)
1988 Judy Allen Awaiting Developments (Julia MacRae)
1987 Geraldine McCaughrean A Little Lower than the Angels (Oxford University Press)
1986 Andrew Taylor The Coal House (Collins)
1985 Janni Howker The Nature of the Beast (Julia MacRae)
1984 Barbara Willard The Queen of the Pharisees Children (Julia MacRae)
1983 Roald Dahl The Witches (Cape)
1982 W J Corbett The Song of Pentecost (Methuen)
1981 Jane Gardam The Hollow Land (Julia MacRae)
1980 Leon Garfield John Diamond (Kestrel)
1979 Peter Dickinson Tulku (Gollancz)
1978 Philippa Pearce The Battle of Bubble and Squeak (Deutsch)
1977 Shelagh Macdonald No End to Yesterday (Deutsch)
1976 Penelope Lively A Stitch in Time (Heinemann)
1975 No award
1974 Joint Winners: Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen (Cape) and Jill Paton Walsh The Emperor’s Winding Sheet (Macmillan)
1973 Alan Aldridge and William Plomer The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast (Cape)
1972 Rumer Godden The Diddakoi (Macmillan)
1971 No award
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