Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f Costa Book Award – Children’s 2019 Costa Book Award – Children’s Asha & the Spirit Bird Jasbinder Bilan Amazon 2018 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Skylarks’ War Hilary McKay Amazon 2017 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Explorer Katherine Rundell Amazon 2016 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Bombs That Brought Us Together Brian Conaghan Amazon 2014 Costa Book Award – Children’s Five Children on the Western Front Kate Saunders Amazon 2013 Costa Book Award – Children’s Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse Chris Riddell Amazon 2007 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Bower Bird Ann Kelley Amazon 2004 Costa Book Award – Children’s Not the End of the World Geraldine McCaughrean Amazon 2003 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Fire-Eaters David Almond Amazon 2000 Costa Book Award – Children’s Coram Boy Jamila Gavin Amazon 1997 Costa Book Award – Children’s Aquila Andrew Norriss Amazon 1995 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Wreck of the Zanzibar Michael Morpurgo Amazon 1994 Costa Book Award – Children’s Gold Dust Geraldine McCaughrean Amazon 1993 Costa Book Award – Children’s Flour Babies Anne Fine Amazon 1992 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Great Elephant Chase Gillian Cross Amazon 1991 Costa Book Award – Children’s Harvey Angell Diana Hendry Amazon 1990 Costa Book Award – Children’s AK Peter Dickinson Amazon 1989 Costa Book Award – Children’s Why Weeps the Brogan Hugh Scott Amazon 1988 Costa Book Award – Children’s Awaiting Developments Judy Allen Amazon 1987 Costa Book Award – Children’s A Little Lower than the Angels Geraldine McCaughrean Amazon 1986 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Coal House Andrew Taylor Amazon 1985 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Nature of the Beast Janni Howker Amazon 1984 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Queen of the Pharisees’ Children Barbara Willard Amazon 1983 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Witches Roald Dahl Amazon 1982 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Song of Pentecost W. J. Corbett Amazon 1981 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Hollow Land Jane Gardam Amazon 1980 Costa Book Award – Children’s John Diamond Leon Garfield Amazon 1979 Costa Book Award – Children’s Tulku Peter Dickinson Amazon 1978 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Battle of Bubble & Squeak Philippa Pearce Amazon 1977 Costa Book Award – Children’s No End to Yesterday Shelagh Macdonald Amazon 1976 Costa Book Award – Children’s A Stitch in Time Penelope Lively Amazon 1973 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast Alan Aldridge and William Plomer Amazon 1972 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Diddakoi Rumer Godden Amazon 2015 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge Amazon 2012 Costa Book Award – Children’s Maggot Moon Sally Gardner Amazon 2011 Costa Book Award – Children’s Blood Red Road Moira Young Amazon 2010 Costa Book Award – Children’s Out of Shadows Jason Wallace Amazon 2009 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Ask and the Answer Patrick Ness Amazon 2008 Costa Book Award – Children’s Just Henry Michelle Magorian Amazon 2006 Costa Book Award – Children’s Set in Stone Linda Newbery Amazon 2005 Costa Book Award – Children’s The New Policeman Kate Thompson Amazon 2002 Costa Book Award – Children’s Saffy’s Angel Hilary McKay Amazon 2001 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman Amazon 1999 Costa Book Award – Children’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling Amazon 1998 Costa Book Award – Children’s Skellig David Almond Amazon 1996 Costa Book Award – Children’s The Tulip Touch Anne Fine Amazon