The Kurt Maschler Award (1982 to 1999) was a British literary award that annually recognised one "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other." Winning authors and illustrators received £1000 and a bronze figurine called the "Emil". The Award was founded by Kurt Maschler, best known as the publisher of ''

Emil and the Detectives ''Emil and the Detectives'' () is a 1929 novel set mainly in Berlin, by the German writer Erich Kästner and illustrated by Walter Trier. It was Kästner's first major success and the only one of his pre-1945 works to escape Nazi censorship. The ...

'' by Erich Kästner (1929). By the time of its discontinuation after the 1999 publications, it was administered by Booktrust and Tom Maschler, a British publisher and the son of the founder. At that time, it was announced in December of the publication year.

Winners

Seven of the 18 winning works were written and illustrated by one person, including two by Anthony Browne. As an illustrator, Browne won three awards (a total of five Emils), and Helen Oxenbury won two. Each won for an edition of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' by Lewis Carroll (1865). Browne and Carroll were the only authors of two winning works. The first two Kurt Maschler Award winners and the final winner also received the annual Kate Greenaway Medal from the CILIP, which recognises the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. Among these, the 1983 winner, ''Gorilla'', illustrated by Anthony Browne, and the 1999 winner, Helen Oxenbury's edition of ''Alice in Wonderland'', were named two of the top ten Greenaway-winning works (1955–2005) during that Medal's 50-year celebration in 2007. Three other Maschler winners were highly commended runners-up for the Greenaway Medal, a distinction awarded roughly annually at the time: Browne's edition of ''Alice'', Oxenbury for ''So Much'', and Patrick Benson for ''The Little Boat''.

References

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The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-21. "Kurt Maschler Awards"
Book Awards. ''bizland.com''. Retrieved 7 February 2008. British children's literary awards Illustrated book awards Awards established in 1982 1982 establishments in the United Kingdom Awards disestablished in 1999 1999 disestablishments in the United Kingdom

Winners

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