| Ness, Patrick | 2011 |
| Monsters of Men | |
| Gaiman, Neil | 2010 |
| The Graveyard Book | |
| Dowd, Siobhan | 2009 |
| Bog Child | |
| Reeve, Philip | 2008 |
| Here Lies Arthur | |
| Rosoff, Meg | 2007 |
| Just in Case | |
| Peet, Mal | 2005 |
| Tamar | |
| Boyce, Frank Cottrell | 2004 |
| Millions | |
| Donnelly, Jennifer | 2003 |
| A Northern Light | |
| Creech, Sharon | 2002 |
| Ruby Holler | |
| Pratchett, Terry | 2001 |
| The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents | |
| Naidoo, Beverley | 2000 |
| The Other Side of Truth | |
| Chambers, Aidan | 1999 |
| Postcards From No Man's Land | |
| Almond, David | 1998 |
| Skellig | |
| Bowler, Tim | 1997 |
| River Boy | |
| Burgess, Melvin | 1996 |
| Smack | |
| Pullman, Philip | 1995 |
| The Golden Compass | |
| Breslin, Theresa | 1994 |
| Whispers in the Graveyard | |
| Fine, Anne | 1992 |
| Flour Babies | |
| Doherty, Berlie | 1991 |
| Dear Nobody | |
| Cross, Gillian | 1990 |
| Wolf | |
| Fine, Anne | 1989 |
| Goggle-eyes | |
| McCaughrean, Geraldine | 1988 |
| A Pack of Lies | |
| Price, Susan | 1987 |
| The Ghost Drum | |
| Doherty, Berlie | 1986 |
| Granny was a Buffer Girl | |
| Crossley-Holland, Kevin | 1985 |
| Storm | |
| Mahy, Margaret | 1984 |
| The Changeover | |
| Mark, Jan | 1983 |
| Handles | |
| Mahy, Margaret | 1982 |
| The Haunting | |
| Westall, Robert | 1981 |
| The Scarecrows | |
| Dickinson, Peter | 1980 |
| City of Gold | |
| Dickinson, Peter | 1979 |
| Tulku | |
| Rees, David | 1978 |
| The Exeter Blitz | |
| Kemp, Gene | 1977 |
| The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler | |
| Mark, Jan | 1976 |
| Thunder and Lightnings | |
| Westall, Robert | 1975 |
| The Machine Gunners | |
| Hunter, Mollie | 1974 |
| The Stronghold | |
| Lively, Penelope | 1973 |
| The Ghost of Thomas Kempe | |
| Adams, Richard | 1972 |
| Watership Down | |
| Southall, Ivan | 1971 |
| Josh | |
| Harris, Rosemary | 1968 |
| The Moon in the Cloud | |
| Garner, Alan | 1967 |
| The Owl Service | |
| Boston, Lucy | 1961 |
| A Stranger at Green Knowe | |
| Cornwall, I W | 1960 |
| The Making of Man | |
| Sutcliff, Rosemary | 1959 |
| The Lantern Bearers | |
| Pearce, Philippa | 1958 |
| Tom's Midnight Garden | |
| Mayne, William | 1957 |
| A Grass Rope | |
| Lewis, C.S. | 1956 |
| The Last Battle | |
| Farjeon, Eleanor | 1955 |
| The Little Bookroom | |
| Welch, Ronald | 1954 |
| Knight Crusader | |
| Norton, Mary | 1952 |
| The Borrowers | |
| Harnett, Cynthia | 1951 |
| Nicholas and the Wool-pack | |
| Goudge, Elizabeth | 1946 |
| The Little White Horse | |
| Linklater, Eric | 1944 |
| The Wind on the Moon | |
| Watkins-Pitchford, D J | 1942 |
| The Little Grey Men | |
| Barne, Kitty | 1940 |
| Visitors from London | |
| Garnett, Eve | 1937 |
| The Family from One End Street | |
| Ransome, Arthur | 1936 |
| Pigeon Post | |