Whitbread Children's Book Award Winners, 1986-present

Created in 1971, the Whitbread Book Awards were established to "celebrate the most enjoyable books of the year by writers based in the UK or Ireland, and have successfully developed into one of the foremost and most prestigious literary awards in the UK."

There are six awards: First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry, Children's Book and Book of the Year (selected from the five category winners).

In 2006, Costa Coffee took over the sponsorship of the Whitbread Book Awards and changed the name of the awards to the Costa Book Awards.

The winners of the Whitbread Children's Book Award from 1986 to the present:

2006: Will be announced in late January 2007
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 (* also won Book of the year)







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




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