Winners of Multiple Awards
Fourteen different illustrators have won two of the 55 Greenaway Medals awarded through 2012. The first winner of two Medals was John Burningham, 1963 and 1970.
Only A Monster Calls (Walker Books, 2011), by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay, has won both the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for writing and illustration (2012).
No book has won both the Greenaway Medal and the American Caldecott Medal, which recognises a picture book illustrated by a U.S. citizen or resident. The recently common practice of co-publication makes a double win possible.
Gail E. Haley is the only illustrator to win both: the 1971 Caldecott for A Story a Story (1970) and the 1976 Greenaway for The Post Office Cat. She also wrote both books.
Helen Oxenbury, who won the 1969 and 1999 medals, was also a "Highly Commended" runner up four times from 1989 to 1994; the distinction was used 31 times in 29 years to 2002 and no other illustrator was highly commended more than twice. Michael Foreman, who won the 1982 and 1989 medals, was highly commended once and four times a "Commended" runner up, a distinction used 68 times in 44 years to 2002.
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