2019 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Asha & the Spirit Bird
Jasbinder Bilan
2018 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Skylarks’ War
Hilary McKay
2017 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Explorer
Katherine Rundell
2016 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Bombs That Brought Us Together
Brian Conaghan
2014 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Five Children on the Western Front
Kate Saunders
2013 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse
Chris Riddell
2007 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Bower Bird
Ann Kelley
2004 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Not the End of the World
Geraldine McCaughrean
2003 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Fire-Eaters
David Almond
2000 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Coram Boy
Jamila Gavin
1997 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Aquila
Andrew Norriss
1995 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Wreck of the Zanzibar
Michael Morpurgo
1994 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Gold Dust
Geraldine McCaughrean
1993 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Flour Babies
Anne Fine
1992 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Great Elephant Chase
Gillian Cross
1991 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Harvey Angell
Diana Hendry
1990 Costa Book Award – Children’s
AK
Peter Dickinson
1989 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Why Weeps the Brogan
Hugh Scott
1988 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Awaiting Developments
Judy Allen
1987 Costa Book Award – Children’s
A Little Lower than the Angels
Geraldine McCaughrean
1986 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Coal House
Andrew Taylor
1985 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Nature of the Beast
Janni Howker
1984 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Queen of the Pharisees’ Children
Barbara Willard
1983 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Witches
Roald Dahl
1982 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Song of Pentecost
W. J. Corbett
1981 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Hollow Land
Jane Gardam
1980 Costa Book Award – Children’s
John Diamond
Leon Garfield
1979 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Tulku
Peter Dickinson
1978 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Battle of Bubble & Squeak
Philippa Pearce
1977 Costa Book Award – Children’s
No End to Yesterday
Shelagh Macdonald
1976 Costa Book Award – Children’s
A Stitch in Time
Penelope Lively
1973 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast
Alan Aldridge and William Plomer
1972 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Diddakoi
Rumer Godden
2015 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Lie Tree
Frances Hardinge
2012 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Maggot Moon
Sally Gardner
2011 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Blood Red Road
Moira Young
2010 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Out of Shadows
Jason Wallace
2009 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Ask and the Answer
Patrick Ness
2008 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Just Henry
Michelle Magorian
2006 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Set in Stone
Linda Newbery
2005 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The New Policeman
Kate Thompson
2002 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Saffy’s Angel
Hilary McKay
2001 Costa Book Award – Children’s
The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman
1999 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling
1998 Costa Book Award – Children’s
Skellig
David Almond
1996 Costa Book Award – Children’s
