Awarded annually by the Library Association for book illustration published initially in the UK

1955 Award withheld as no book considered suitable

1956 Edward ARDIZZONE : Tim All Alone (OUP) (Henry Z Walck NY)

1957 V H DRUMMOND : Mrs Easter and the Storks (Faber)

1958 Award withheld as no book considered suitable

1959 William STOBBS : Kashtanka & A Bundle of Ballads (OUP) (Lippincott)
Commended : Edward ARDIZZONE - Titus in Trouble (Bodley Head) (Walck, NY)
Gerald ROSE - Old Winkle Goes to Town (Faber)

1960 Gerald ROSE - Old Winkle and the Seagulls (Faber)

1961 Antony MAITLAND - Mrs Cockle's Cat (Longman/Kestrel) (Lippincott)

1962 Brian WILDSMITH - Brian Wildsmith's ABC (OUP) (Franklin Watts, NY)
Commended : Carol BARKER - Achilles the Donkey (Dobson) (Franklin Watts)

1963 John BURNINGHAM - Borka - The Adventures of a Goose with No Feathers
(Cape) (Random House)
Commended : Victor G AMBRUS - The Royal Navy & Time of Trial (OUP) (World, NY)
Brian WILDSMITH - The Lion and the Rat & The Oxford Book of Poetry for Children (OUP)
(Franklin Watts)

1964 C Walter HODGES - Shakespeare's Theatre (OUP) (Coward-McCann)
For their work in general : Victor G AMBRUS & William PAPAS
Raymond BRIGGS - Fee Fi Fo Fum (Hamish Hamilton) (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

1965 Victor G AMBRUS - The Three Poor Tailors (Hamish Hamilton) (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

1966 Raymond BRIGGS - Mother Goose Treasury (Hamish Hamilton) (Coward-McCann)
Commended : Doreen ROBERTS - The Story of Saul the King (OUP) (David White, NY)

1967 Charles KEEPING - Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary (OUP) (Franklin Watts)
Commended : Brian WILDSMITH - Birds (OUP) (Franklin Watts)
William PAPAS - The Church & No Mules (OUP) (Coward-McCann)

1968 Pauline Diana BAYNES - Dictionary of Chivalry (Longman/Kestrel) (T Y Crowell, NY)
Honors List : Gaynor CHAPMAN - The Luck Child (Hamish Hamilton) (Atheneum NY)
Shirley HUGHES - Flutes and Cymbals (Bodley Head) (Crowell NY)
William PAPAS - Taresh the Tea Planter, A Letter from Israel & A Letter from India (OUP)

1969 Helen OXENBURY - The Quangle-Wangle's Hat (Franklin Watts)
& The Dragon of an Ordinary Family (Heinemann)
Honors List : Charles KEEPING - Joseph's Yard (Longman/Kestrel) (Franklin Watts)
Errol le CAIN - The Cabbage Princess (Faber)

1970 John BURNINGHAM - Mr Gumpy's Outing (Cape) (Holt, Rinehart & Winston)
Honors List : Charles KEEPING - The God Beneath the Sea (Longman/Kestrel) (Pantheon)
Jan PIENKOWSKI - The Golden Bird (Dent) (Franklin Watts)
Krystyna TURSKA - Pegasus (Hamish Hamilton) (Franklin Watts)

1971 Jan PIENKOWSKI - The Kingdom Under the Sea and Other Stories (Cape)
Highly Commended : Victor G AMBRUS - The Sultan's Bath (OUP) (HBJ)
Brian WILDSMITH - The Owl and the Woodpecker (OUP) (FRanklin Watts)

1972 Krystyna TURSKA - The Woodcutter's Duck (Hamish Hamilton) (Macmillan NY)
Commended : Carol BAKER - King Midas and the Golden Touch (Franklin Watts)
Pauline BAYNES - Snail and Caterpillar (Longman/Kestrel) (Pantheon)
Antony MAITLAND - The Ghost Downstairs (Longman/Kestrel) (Pantheon)

1973 Raymond BRIGGS - Father Christmas (Hamish Hamilton) (Coward-McCann)
Commended : Fiona FRENCH - King Tree (OUP) (Walck NY)
Errol LLOYD - My Brother Sean (Bodley Head)

1987 : Mwenye Hadithi - Crafty Chameleon - Adrienne Kennaway
1988 : Martin Waddell - Can't You Sleep, Little Bear ? - Barbara Firth
1989 : Michael Foreman - War Boy : A Country Childhood
1990 : Dyan Sheldon - The Whales' Song - Gary Blythe
1991 Allan Ahlberg - The Jolly Christmas Postman - Janet Ahleberg
1992 : Anthony Browne - Zoo
1993 : Rosemary Sutcliff - Black Ships Before Troy - Alan Lee
1994 : Libby Hathorn - The Way Home - Gregory Rogers
1995 : Susan Wojciechowski - The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey - P J Lynch
1996 : Helen Cooper - The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed