Carnegie Medal for Writing checklist
Every Carnegie Medal for Writing book on our site, newest first. Print it and tick off the ones you have read.
| Read | Year | Title | By | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Wolf Siren | Beth O'Brien | Winner | |
| 2026 | Birdie | J. P. Rose | Shortlist | |
| 2026 | Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody | Patrick Ness | Shortlist | |
| 2026 | Ghostlines | Katya Balen | Shortlist | |
| 2026 | Not Going to Plan | Tia Fisher | Shortlist | |
| 2026 | Popcorn | Rob Harrell | Shortlist | |
| 2026 | The Boy I Love | William Hussey | Shortlist | |
| 2026 | Twenty-Four Seconds from Now | Jason Reynolds | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Glasgow Boys | Margaret McDonald | Winner | |
| 2025 | All That It Ever Meant | Blessing Musariri | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | King of Nothing | Nathanael Lessore | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Little Bang | Kelly McCaughrain | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Play | Luke Palmer | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | The Final Year | Matt Goodfellow | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | The Things We Leave Behind | Clare Furniss | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Treacle Town | Brian Conaghan | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | The Boy Lost in the Maze | Joseph Coelho | Winner | |
| 2024 | Away with Words | Sophie Cameron | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | Choose Love | Nicola Davies | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | Crossing the Line | Tia Fisher | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | Safiyyah's War | Hiba Noor Khan | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | Steady for This | Nathanael Lessore | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | The Door of No Return | Kwame Alexander | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | The Song Walker | Zillah Bethell | Shortlist | |
| 2023 | The Blue Book of Nebo | Manon Steffan Ros | Winner | |
| 2023 | I Must Betray You | Ruta Sepetys | Shortlist | |
| 2023 | Medusa | Jessie Burton | Shortlist | |
| 2023 | Needle | Patrice Lawrence | Shortlist | |
| 2023 | The Eternal Return of Clara Hart | Louise Finch | Shortlist | |
| 2023 | The Light in Everything | Katya Balen | Shortlist | |
| 2023 | When Shadows Fall | Sita Brahmachari | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | October, October | Katya Balen | Winner | |
| 2022 | Cane Warriors | Alex Wheatle | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town | Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | Guard Your Heart | Sue Divin | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | Punching the Air | Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | The Crossing | Manjeet Mann | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | Tsunami Girl | Julian Sedgwick | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | When the Sky Falls | Phil Earle | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | Look Both Ways | Jason Reynolds | Winner | |
| 2021 | Clap When You Land | Elizabeth Acevedo | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | Echo Mountain | Lauren Wolk | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | On Midnight Beach | Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | Run, Rebel | Manjeet Mann | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | The Fountains of Silence | Ruta Sepetys | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | The Girl Who Became A Tree | Joseph Coelho | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | The Girl Who Speaks Bear | Sophie Anderson | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | Lark | Anthony McGowan | Winner | |
| 2020 | Girl. Boy. Sea. | Chris Vick | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | Lampie | Annet Schaap | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | Nowhere on Earth | Nick Lake | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | On the Come Up | Angie Thomas | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | Patron Saints of Nothing | Randy Ribay | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | The Black Flamingo | Dean Atta | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black | Marcus Sedgwick and Julian Sedgwick | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | The Poet X | Elizabeth Acevedo | Winner | |
| 2019 | A Skinful of Shadows | Frances Hardinge | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | Bone Talk | Candy Gourlay | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | Rebound | Kwame Alexander | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | The House with Chicken Legs | Sophie Anderson | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | The Land of Neverendings | Kate Saunders | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | Things a Bright Girl Can Do | Sally Nicholls | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | Where the World Ends | Geraldine McCaughrean | Winner | |
| 2018 | After the Fire | Will Hill | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | Beyond the Bright Sea | Lauren Wolk | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | Release | Patrick Ness | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | Rook | Anthony McGowan | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | Saint Death | Marcus Sedgwick | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | Wed Wabbit | Lissa Evans | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | Salt to the Sea | Ruta Sepetys | Winner | |
| 2017 | Beck | Mal Peet and Meg Rosoff | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | Railhead | Philip Reeve | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth | Frank Cottrell-Boyce | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | The Bone Sparrow | Zana Fraillon | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | The Smell of Other People's Houses | Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | The Stars at Oktober Bend | Glenda Millard | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | Wolf Hollow | Lauren Wolk | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | One | Sarah Crossan | Winner | |
| 2016 | Fire Colour One | Jenny Valentine | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | Five Children on the Western Front | Kate Saunders | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | Lies We Tell Ourselves | Robin Talley | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | The Ghosts of Heaven | Marcus Sedgwick | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | The Lie Tree | Frances Hardinge | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | The Rest of Us Just Live Here | Patrick Ness | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | There Will Be Lies | Nick Lake | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | Buffalo Soldier | Tanya Landman | Winner | |
| 2015 | Apple and Rain | Sarah Crossan | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | Cuckoo Song | Frances Hardinge | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | More Than This | Patrick Ness | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | The Fastest Boy in the World | Elizabeth Laird | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | The Middle of Nowhere | Geraldine McCaughrean | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | Tinder | Sally Gardner | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | When Mr Dog Bites | Brian Conaghan | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | The Bunker Diary | Kevin Brooks | Winner | |
| 2014 | All the Truth That's in Me | Julie Berry | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | Blood Family | Anne Fine | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | Ghost Hawk | Susan Cooper | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | Liar & Spy | Rebecca Stead | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | Rooftoppers | Katherine Rundell | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | The Child's Elephant | Rachel Campbell-Johnston | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | The Wall | William Sutcliffe | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | Maggot Moon | Sally Gardner | Winner | |
| 2013 | A Boy and a Bear in a Boat | Dave Shelton | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | A Greyhound of a Girl | Roddy Doyle | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | Code Name Verity | Elizabeth Wein | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | In Darkness | Nick Lake | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | Midwinterblood | Marcus Sedgwick | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | The Weight of Water | Sarah Crossan | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | Wonder | R. J. Palacio | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness | Winner | |
| 2012 | Between Shades of Grey | Ruta Sepetys | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | Everybody Jam | Ali Lewis | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | My Name is Mina | David Almond | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece | Annabel Pitcher | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | Small Change for Stuart | Lissa Evans | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | The Midnight Zoo | Sonya Hartnett | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | Trash | Andy Mulligan | Shortlist | |
| 2011 | Monsters of Men | Patrick Ness | Winner | |
| 2011 | Out of Shadows | Jason Wallace | Shortlist | |
| 2011 | Prisoner of the Inquisition | Theresa Breslin | Shortlist | |
| 2011 | The Bride's Farewell | Meg Rosoff | Shortlist | |
| 2011 | The Death-Defying Pepper Roux | Geraldine McCaughrean | Shortlist | |
| 2011 | White Crow | Marcus Sedgwick | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Winner | |
| 2010 | Chains | Laurie Halse Anderson | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | Fever Crumb | Philip Reeve | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | Nation | Terry Pratchett | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | Revolver | Marcus Sedgwick | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | Rowan the Strange | Julie Hearn | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | The Ask and the Answer | Patrick Ness | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | The Vanishing of Katharina Linden | Helen Grant | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | Bog Child | Siobhan Dowd | Winner | |
| 2009 | Airman | Eoin Colfer | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | Black Rabbit Summer | Kevin Brooks | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | Cosmic | Frank Cottrell-Boyce | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | Creature of the Night | Kate Thompson | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | Ostrich Boys | Keith Gray | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | The Knife of Never Letting Go | Patrick Ness | Shortlist | |
| 2008 | Here Lies Arthur | Philip Reeve | Winner | |
| 2008 | Apache: Girl Warrior | Tanya Landman | Shortlist | |
| 2008 | Crusade | Elizabeth Laird | Shortlist | |
| 2008 | Finding Violet Park | Jenny Valentine | Shortlist | |
| 2008 | Gatty's Tale | Kevin Crossley-Holland | Shortlist | |
| 2008 | Ruby Red | Linzi Glass | Shortlist | |
| 2008 | What I Was | Meg Rosoff | Shortlist | |
| 2007 | Just in Case | Meg Rosoff | Winner | |
| 2007 | A Swift Pure Cry | Siobhan Dowd | Shortlist | |
| 2007 | Beast | Ally Kennen | Shortlist | |
| 2007 | My Swordhand is Singing | Marcus Sedgwick | Shortlist | |
| 2007 | The Road of Bones | Anne Fine | Shortlist | |
| 2007 | The Road of the Dead | Kevin Brooks | Shortlist | |
| 2005 | Tamar | Mal Peet | Winner | |
| 2005 | Clay | David Almond | Shortlist | |
| 2005 | Framed | Frank Cottrell-Boyce | Shortlist | |
| 2005 | The White Darkness | Geraldine McCaughrean | Shortlist | |
| 2005 | Turbulence | Jan Mark | Shortlist | |
| 2004 | Millions | Frank Cottrell-Boyce | Winner | |
| 2004 | Al Capone Does My Shirts | Gennifer Choldenko | Shortlist | |
| 2004 | Heartbeat | Sharon Creech | Shortlist | |
| 2004 | Looking for JJ | Anne Cassidy | Shortlist | |
| 2004 | The Scarecrow and His Servant | Philip Pullman | Shortlist | |
| 2004 | The Star of Kazan | Eva Ibbotson | Shortlist | |
| 2003 | A Gathering Light | Jennifer Donnelly | Winner | |
| 2003 | Private Peaceful | Michael Morpurgo | Shortlist | |
| 2003 | Sisterland | Linda Newbery | Shortlist | |
| 2003 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | Shortlist | |
| 2003 | The Fire-Eaters | David Almond | Shortlist | |
| 2003 | The Garbage King | Elizabeth Laird | Shortlist | |
| 2002 | Ruby Holler | Sharon Creech | Winner | |
| 2002 | Up On Cloud Nine | Anne Fine | Highly commended | |
| 2001 | The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents | Terry Pratchett | Winner | |
| 2001 | Stop The Train | Geraldine McCaughrean | Highly commended | |
| 2001 | Love That Dog | Sharon Creech | Commended | |
| 2000 | The Other Side of Truth | Beverley Naidoo | Winner | |
| 2000 | The Amber Spyglass | Philip Pullman | Highly commended | |
| 2000 | Troy | Adèle Geras | Highly commended | |
| 2000 | The Ghost Behind The Wall | Melvin Burgess | Commended | |
| 1999 | Postcards from No Man's Land | Aidan Chambers | Winner | |
| 1998 | Skellig | David Almond | Winner | |
| 1997 | River Boy | Tim Bowler | Winner | |
| 1997 | Fire, Bed, and Bone | Henrietta Branford | Highly commended | |
| 1997 | Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone | J. K. Rowling | Commended | |
| 1996 | Junk | Melvin Burgess | Winner | |
| 1996 | The Tulip Touch | Anne Fine | Highly commended | |
| 1996 | Johnny and the Bomb | Terry Pratchett | Commended | |
| 1995 | Northern Lights | Philip Pullman | Winner | |
| 1995 | Double Act | Jacqueline Wilson | Highly commended | |
| 1995 | Raider | Susan Gates | Commended | |
| 1994 | Whispers in the Graveyard | Theresa Breslin | Winner | |
| 1994 | Maphead | Lesley Howarth | Highly commended | |
| 1994 | Willa And Old Miss Annie | Berlie Doherty | Highly commended | |
| 1993 | Stone Cold | Robert Swindells | Winner | |
| 1993 | The Baby and Fly Pie | Melvin Burgess | Highly commended | |
| 1993 | The Stone Mouse | Jenny Nimmo | Highly commended | |
| 1993 | Someone Came Knocking | Anne Merrick | Commended | |
| 1992 | Flour Babies | Anne Fine | Winner | |
| 1992 | Gulf | Robert Westall | Highly commended | |
| 1992 | A Bone from a Dry Sea | Peter Dickinson | Commended | |
| 1992 | The Great Elephant Chase | Gillian Cross | Commended | |
| 1991 | Dear Nobody | Berlie Doherty | Winner | |
| 1991 | The Story of Tracy Beaker | Jacqueline Wilson | Highly commended | |
| 1991 | Real Tilly Beany | Annie Dalton | Commended | |
| 1991 | The Drowners | Garry Kilworth | Commended | |
| 1990 | Wolf | Gillian Cross | Winner | |
| 1990 | The Cry of the Wolf | Melvin Burgess | Highly commended | |
| 1990 | The Kingdom by the Sea | Robert Westall | Highly commended | |
| 1990 | Riding the Waves | Theresa Tomlinson | Commended | |
| 1989 | Goggle-Eyes | Anne Fine | Winner | |
| 1989 | Bill's New Frock | Anne Fine | Highly commended | |
| 1989 | The Charlie Barber Treatment | Carole Lloyd | Highly commended | |
| 1989 | The Trial of Anna Cotman | Vivien Alcock | Commended | |
| 1988 | A Pack of Lies | Geraldine McCaughrean | Winner | |
| 1988 | A Map of Nowhere | Gillian Cross | Highly commended | |
| 1988 | Eva | Peter Dickinson | Highly commended | |
| 1988 | Red Sky in the Morning | Elizabeth Laird | Highly commended | |
| 1988 | Awaiting Developments | Judy Allen | Commended | |
| 1988 | The Lives of Christopher Chant | Diana Wynne Jones | Commended | |
| 1988 | The Monster Garden | Vivien Alcock | Commended | |
| 1987 | The Ghost Drum | Susan Price | Winner | |
| 1987 | Memory | Margaret Mahy | Highly commended | |
| 1987 | King of the Cloud Forests | Michael Morpurgo | Commended | |
| 1987 | The House on the Hill | Eileen Dunlop | Commended | |
| 1987 | Wise Child | Monica Furlong | Commended | |
| 1986 | Granny Was a Buffer Girl | Berlie Doherty | Winner | |
| 1986 | Isaac Campion | Janni Howker | Highly commended | |
| 1986 | Chartbreaker | Gillian Cross | Commended | |
| 1986 | Coal House | Andrew Taylor | Commended | |
| 1986 | Running Scared | Bernard Ashley | Commended | |
| 1985 | Storm | Kevin Crossley-Holland | Winner | |
| 1985 | Nature of the Beast | Janni Howker | Highly commended | |
| 1984 | The Changeover | Margaret Mahy | Winner | |
| 1984 | Brother in the Land | Robert Swindells | Highly commended | |
| 1983 | Handles | Jan Mark | Winner | |
| 1983 | Talking in Whispers | James Watson | Highly commended | |
| 1983 | A Little Fear | Patricia Wrightson | Commended | |
| 1983 | The Way to Sattin Shore | Philippa Pearce | Commended | |
| 1982 | The Haunting | Margaret Mahy | Winner | |
| 1982 | The Dark Behind the Curtain | Gillian Cross | Highly commended | |
| 1982 | Wall of Words | Tim Kennemore | Commended | |
| 1981 | The Scarecrows | Robert Westall | Winner | |
| 1981 | The Hollow Land | Jane Gardam | Highly commended | |
| 1981 | Bridget and William | Jane Gardam | Commended | |
| 1981 | Goodnight Mister Tom | Michelle Magorian | Commended | |
| 1980 | City of Gold and other stories from the Old Testament | Peter Dickinson | Winner | |
| 1980 | Nothing To Be Afraid Of | Jan Mark | Highly commended | |
| 1980 | A Sense of Shame | Jan Needle | Commended | |
| 1980 | The Fox in Winter | John Branfield | Commended | |
| 1979 | Tulku | Peter Dickinson | Winner | |
| 1979 | The Castle Story | Sheila Sancha | Highly commended | |
| 1979 | A Wild Kind of Justice | Bernard Ashley | Commended | |
| 1979 | The Battle of Bubble and Squeak | Philippa Pearce | Commended | |
| 1979 | The Devil on the Road | Robert Westall | Commended | |
| 1978 | The Exeter Blitz | David Rees | Winner | |
| 1977 | The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler | Gene Kemp | Winner | |
| 1977 | Charmed Life | Diana Wynne Jones | Commended | |
| 1977 | The Shadow-Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural | Philippa Pearce | Commended | |
| 1977 | Under Goliath | Peter Carter | Commended | |
| 1976 | Thunder and Lightnings | Jan Mark | Winner | |
| 1976 | The Blue Hawk | Peter Dickinson | Commended | |
| 1975 | The Machine Gunners | Robert Westall | Winner | |
| 1975 | Dogsbody | Diana Wynne Jones | Commended | |
| 1975 | The Grey King | Susan Cooper | Commended | |
| 1974 | The Stronghold | Mollie Hunter | Winner | |
| 1974 | The Battle of Gettysburg, 1–3 July 1963 | Ian Ribbons | Highly commended | |
| 1974 | Gran at Coalgate | Winifred Cawley | Commended | |
| 1974 | The Emperor's Winding Sheet | Jill Paton Walsh | Commended | |
| 1973 | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe | Penelope Lively | Winner | |
| 1973 | Carrie's War | Nina Bawden | Commended | |
| 1973 | The Bongleweed | Helen Cresswell | Commended | |
| 1973 | The Dark Is Rising | Susan Cooper | Commended | |
| 1972 | Watership Down | Richard Adams | Winner | |
| 1972 | No Way of Telling | Emma Smith | Commended | |
| 1972 | The Dancing Bear | Peter Dickinson | Commended | |
| 1971 | Josh | Ivan Southall | Winner | |
| 1971 | A Likely Lad | Gillian Avery | Commended | |
| 1971 | Tristan and Iseult | Rosemary Sutcliff | Commended | |
| 1971 | Up the Pier | Helen Cresswell | Commended | |
| 1970 | The God Beneath the Sea | Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen | Winner | |
| 1970 | Ravensgill | William Mayne | Commended | |
| 1970 | The Devil's Children | Peter Dickinson | Commended | |
| 1970 | The Drummer Boy | Leon Garfield | Commended | |
| 1969 | The Edge of the Cloud | K. M. Peyton | Winner | |
| 1969 | Flambards in Summer | K. M. Peyton | Commended | |
| 1969 | The Intruder | John Rowe Townsend | Commended | |
| 1969 | The Night Watchman | Helen Cresswell | Commended | |
| 1968 | The Moon in the Cloud | Rosemary Harris | Winner | |
| 1968 | Black Jack | Leon Garfield | Commended | |
| 1968 | The Whispering Mountain | Joan Aiken | Commended | |
| 1968 | When Jays Fly to Barbmo | Margaret Balderson | Commended | |
| 1967 | The Owl Service | Alan Garner | Winner | |
| 1967 | The Dream Time | Henry Treece | Highly commended | |
| 1967 | Flambards | K. M. Peyton | Commended | |
| 1967 | Smith | Leon Garfield | Commended | |
| 1967 | The Piemakers | Helen Cresswell | Commended | |
| 1966 | The Bayeux Tapestry: The Story of the Norman Conquest, 1066 | Norman Denny and Josephine Filmer-Sankey | Highly commended | |
| 1966 | Marassa and Midnight | Morna Stuart | Commended | |
| 1966 | The Wild Horse of Santander | Helen Griffith | Commended | |
| 1966 | Thunder in the Sky | K. M. Peyton | Commended | |
| 1965 | The Grange at High Force | Philip Turner | Winner | |
| 1965 | Elidor | Alan Garner | Commended | |
| 1965 | One is One | Barbara Leonie Picard | Commended | |
| 1965 | The Bus Girls | Mary K. Harris | Commended | |
| 1965 | The Journey of the Eldest Son | Jenny Grace Fyson | Commended | |
| 1965 | The Orchestra and Its Instruments | C. Headington | Commended | |
| 1965 | The Plan for Birdmarsh | K. M. Peyton | Commended | |
| 1964 | Nordy Bank | Sheena Porter | Winner | |
| 1964 | London's Riverside | Eric S. de Mare | Commended | |
| 1964 | Namesake | C. Walter Hodges | Commended | |
| 1964 | The Maplin Bird | K. M. Peyton | Commended | |
| 1964 | The Three Brothers of Ur | Jenny Grace Fyson | Commended | |
| 1963 | Time of Trial | Hester Burton | Winner | |
| 1963 | Castaway Christmas | Margaret J. Baker | Commended | |
| 1963 | Hell's Edge | John Rowe Townsend | Commended | |
| 1963 | Kings, Bishops, Knights, and Pawns: Life in a Feudal Society | Ralph Arnold | Commended | |
| 1963 | The Latchkey Children | Eric Allan | Commended | |
| 1963 | The Thursday Kidnapping | Antonia Forest | Commended | |
| 1962 | The Twelve and the Genii | Pauline Clarke | Winner | |
| 1962 | Armour and Blade | Samuel E. Ellacott | Commended | |
| 1962 | Castors Away | Hester Burton | Commended | |
| 1962 | The Greatest Gresham | Gillian Avery | Commended | |
| 1962 | The Story of John Keats | Jo Manton | Commended | |
| 1962 | The Summer Birds | Penelope Farmer | Commended | |
| 1962 | Windfall | K. M. Peyton | Commended | |
| 1961 | A Stranger at Green Knowe | Lucy M. Boston | Winner | |
| 1961 | February's Road | John Verney | Commended | |
| 1961 | Miss Happiness and Miss Flower | Rumer Godden | Commended | |
| 1961 | Peter's Room | Antonia Forest | Commended | |
| 1961 | Ragged Robin | James Reeves | Commended | |
| 1960 | The Making of Man | Ian Wolfran Cornwall | Winner | |
| 1960 | Seraphina | Mary K. Harris | Commended | |
| 1960 | The Bonny Pit Laddie | Frederick Grice | Commended | |
| 1960 | The Great Gale | Hester Burton | Commended | |
| 1960 | The Ivory Horn | Ian Serraillier | Commended | |
| 1960 | The Penny Fiddle | Robert Graves | Commended | |
| 1959 | The Lantern Bearers | Rosemary Sutcliff | Winner | |
| 1959 | Friday's Tunnel | John Verney | Commended | |
| 1959 | Quiet as Moss: 36 Poems | Andres Young | Commended | |
| 1959 | The Borrowers Afloat | Mary Norton | Commended | |
| 1959 | The Load of Unicorn | Cynthia Harnett | Commended | |
| 1959 | The Rescuers | Margery Sharp | Commended | |
| 1958 | Tom's Midnight Garden | Philippa Pearce | Winner | |
| 1958 | The Chimneys of Green Knowe | Lucy M. Boston | Commended | |
| 1958 | Warrior Scarlet | Rosemary Sutcliff | Commended | |
| 1957 | A Grass Rope | William Mayne | Winner | |
| 1957 | Falconer's Lure | Antonia Forest | Commended | |
| 1957 | Sogberd's Grove | Anne Barrett | Commended | |
| 1957 | The Blue Boat | William Mayne | Commended | |
| 1957 | The Silver Branch | Rosemary Sutcliff | Commended | |
| 1957 | The Story of the Second World War | Katharine Savage | Commended | |
| 1957 | The Warden's Niece | Gillian Avery | Commended | |
| 1956 | The Last Battle | C. S. Lewis | Winner | |
| 1956 | Choristers' Cake | William Mayne | Commended | |
| 1956 | Ransom for a Knight | Barbara Leonie Picard | Commended | |
| 1956 | The Fairy Doll | Rumer Godden | Commended | |
| 1956 | The Member for the Marsh | William Mayne | Commended | |
| 1956 | The Shield Ring | Rosemary Sutcliff | Commended | |
| 1956 | The Silver Sword | Ian Serraillier | Commended | |
| 1955 | The Little Bookroom | Eleanor Farjeon | Winner | |
| 1955 | A Swarm in May | William Mayne | Commended | |
| 1955 | Candidate for Fame | Margaret Jowett | Commended | |
| 1955 | Man Must Measure: The Wonderful World of Mathematics | Lancelot Hogben | Commended | |
| 1955 | Minnow on the Say | A. Philippa Pearce | Commended | |
| 1955 | The Story of Albert Schweitzer | Jo Manton | Commended | |
| 1954 | Knight Crusader | Ronald Welch | Winner | |
| 1954 | Children of Green Knowe | Lucy M. Boston | Commended | |
| 1954 | English Fables and Fairy Stories | James Reeves | Commended | |
| 1954 | Lavender's Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes | Harold Jones and Kathleen Lines | Commended | |
| 1954 | Over the Hills to Fabylon | Nicholas Stuart Gray | Commended | |
| 1954 | The Eagle of the Ninth | Rosemary Sutcliff | Commended | |
| 1954 | The Horse and His Boy | C. S. Lewis | Commended | |
| 1954 | The Lady of the Linden Tree | Barbara Leonie Picard | Commended | |
| 1953 | A Valley Grows Up | Edward Osmond | Winner | |
| 1952 | The Borrowers | Mary Norton | Winner | |
| 1951 | The Wool-Pack | Cynthia Harnett | Winner | |
| 1950 | The Lark on the Wing | Elfrida Vipont | Winner | |
| 1949 | The Story of Your Home | Agnes Allen | Winner | |
| 1948 | Sea Change | Richard Armstrong | Winner | |
| 1947 | Collected Stories for Children | Walter de la Mare | Winner | |
| 1946 | The Little White Horse | Elizabeth Goudge | Winner | |
| 1944 | The Wind on the Moon | Eric Linklater | Winner | |
| 1942 | The Little Grey Men | BB | Winner | |
| 1941 | We Couldn't Leave Dinah | Mary Treadgold | Winner | |
| 1940 | Visitors from London | Kitty Barne | Winner | |
| 1939 | The Radium Woman | Eleanor Doorly | Winner | |
| 1938 | The Circus Is Coming | Noel Streatfeild | Winner | |
| 1937 | The Family from One End Street | Eve Garnett | Winner | |
| 1936 | Pigeon Post | Arthur Ransome | Winner | |
| 1936 | Ballet Shoes | Noel Streatfeild | Commended | |
| 1936 | Sampson's Circus | Howard Spring | Commended |
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