The Costa (previously Whitbread) Book Award is one of the most prestigious and popular literary prizes in the UK. The winner is chosen by a panel of three judges - usually an author, a bookseller and a journalist. There are five categories of awards, one of which is for a Children's Book which must be written by a writer based in the UK or Ireland.
Below is the list of award winners in the Children's Book category from 1972 until the present day.
Winners for all categories of the award can be found here.2013 Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse by Chris Riddell
2012 Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
2011 Blood Red Road by Moira Young
2010 Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
2009 The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
2008 Just Henry by Michelle Magorian
2007 The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley
2006 Set in Stone by Linda Newbery
2005 The New Policeman by Kate Thompson
2004 Not the End of the World by Geraldine McCaughrean
2003 The Fire-Eaters by David Almond
2002 Saffy’s Angel by Hilary McKay
2001 The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
2000 Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin
1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling
1998 Skellig by David Almond
1997 Aquila by Andrew Norriss
1996 The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine
1995 The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo
1994 Gold Dust by Geraldine McCaughrean
1993 Flour Babies by Anne Fine
1992 The Great Elephant Chase by Gillian Cross
1991 Harvey Angell by Diana Hendry
1990 AK by Peter Dickinson
1989 Why Weeps the Brogan? by Hugh Scott
1988 Awaiting Developments by Judy Allen
1987 A Little Lower than the Angels by Geraldine McCaughrean
1986 The Coal House by Andrew Taylor
1985 The Nature of the Beast by Janni Howker
1984 The Queen of the Pharisees' Children by Barbara Willard
1983 The Witches by Roald Dahl
1982 The Song of Pentecost by W J Corbett
1981 The Hollow Land by Jane Gardam
1980 John Diamond by Leon Garfield
1979 Tulku by Peter Dickinson
1978 The Battle of Bubble & Squeak by Philippa Pearce
1977 No End to Yesterday by Shelagh Macdonald
1976 A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively
1975 none
1974 (jt) How Tom Beat Captain Najork & His Hired Sportsmen by Russell Hoban & Quentin Blake
1974 (jt) The Emperor's Winding Sheet by Jill Paton Walsh
1973 The Butterfly Ball & The Grasshopper's Feast by Alan Aldridge & William Plomer
1972 The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden
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