CARNEGIE MEDAL

The 'Carnegie Medal in Literature' was established in the UK in 1936 in honour of Scottish philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It is awarded to an outstanding book for children and young adult readers. Nominated books must be written in English and should first have been published in the UK during the previous year. The Carnegie judging panel consists of 13 children's librarians from the Youth Libraries Group of CILIP, and is thus similar to the American Newbery medal. Nominated books are also read by students from many schools who send feedback to the judging panel. CILIP also recognizes excellence in illustration, with the Kate Greenaway Medal, which is similar to the American Caldecott medal.
The award is announced in the July following the year of publication. The winner receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a public or school library.
The original rules stated that an author could only win the Medal once. This rule was later changed to enable subsequent work by the same author to be included for consideration.

Contents

List of winners

Shortlists

70th Anniversary ''Carnegie of Carnegies'' (2007)

See also

External links

List of winners

(note that years refer to the publication date of the books - the medal was awarded the following year)

★ '2006' Meg Rosoff, ''Just in Case''

★ '2005' Mal Peet, ''Tamar''

★ '2004' Frank Cottrell Boyce, ''Millions''

★ '2003' Jennifer Donnelly, ''A Gathering Light'', Bloomsbury

★ '2002' Sharon Creech, ''Ruby Holler'', Bloomsbury

★ '2001' Terry Pratchett, ''The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents'', Doubleday

★ '2000' Beverley Naidoo, ''The Other Side of Truth'', Puffin

★ '1999' Aidan Chambers, ''Postcards From No Man's Land'', Bodley Head

★ '1998' David Almond, ''Skellig'', Hodder

★ '1997' Tim Bowler, ''River Boy'', OUP

★ '1996' Melvin Burgess, ''Junk'', Andersen Press

★ '1995' Philip Pullman, ''His Dark Materials: Book 1 Northern Lights'', Scholastic

★ '1994' Theresa Breslin, ''Whispers in the Graveyard'', Methuen

★ '1993' Robert Swindells, ''Stone Cold'', H Hamilton

★ '1992' Anne Fine, ''Flour Babies'', H Hamilton

★ '1991' Berlie Doherty, ''Dear Nobody'', H Hamilton

★ '1990' Gillian Cross, ''Wolf'', OUP

★ '1989' Anne Fine, ''Goggle-eyes'', H Hamilton

★ '1988' Geraldine McCaughrean, ''A Pack of Lies'', OUP

★ '1987' Susan Price, ''The Ghost Drum'', Faber

★ '1986' Berlie Doherty, ''Granny was a Buffer Girl'', Methuen

★ '1985' Kevin Crossley-Holland, ''Storm'', Heinemann

★ '1984' Margaret Mahy, ''The Changeover'', Dent

★ '1983' Jan Mark, ''Handles'', Kestrel

★ '1982' Margaret Mahy, ''The Haunting'', Dent

★ '1981' Robert Westall, ''The Scarecrows'', Chatto & Windus

★ '1980' Peter Dickinson, ''City of Gold'', Gollancz

★ '1979' Peter Dickinson, ''Tulku'', Gollancz

★ '1978' David Rees, ''The Exeter Blitz'', H Hamilton

★ '1977' Gene Kemp, ''The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler'', Faber

★ '1976' Jan Mark, ''Thunder and Lightnings'', Kestrel

★ '1975' Robert Westall, ''The Machine Gunners'', Macmillan

★ '1974' Mollie Hunter, ''The Stronghold'', H Hamilton

★ '1973' Penelope Lively, ''The Ghost of Thomas Kempe'', Heinemann

★ '1972' Richard Adams, ''Watership Down'', Rex Collings

★ '1971' Ivan Southall, ''Josh'', Angus & Robertson

★ '1970' Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen, illustrated by Charles Keeping, ''The God Beneath the Sea'', Longman

★ '1969' K. M. Peyton, ''The Edge of the Cloud'', OUP

★ '1968' Rosemary Harris, ''The Moon in the Cloud'', Faber

★ '1967' Alan Garner, ''The Owl Service'', Collins

★ '1966' ''Prize withheld as no book considered suitable''

★ '1965' Philip Turner, ''The Grange at High Force'', OUP

★ '1964' Sheena Porter, ''Nordy Bank'', OUP

★ '1963' Hester Burton, ''Time of Trial'', OUP

★ '1962' Pauline Clarke, ''The Twelve and the Genii'', Faber

★ '1961' Lucy M. Boston, ''A Stranger at Green Knowe'', Faber

★ '1960' Dr I. W. Cornwall, ''The Making of Man'', Phoenix House

★ '1959' Rosemary Sutcliff, ''The Lantern Bearers'', OUP

★ '1958' Philippa Pearce, ''Tom's Midnight Garden'', OUP

★ '1957' William Mayne, ''A Grass Rope'', OUP

★ '1956' C. S. Lewis, ''The Last Battle'', Bodley Head

★ '1955' Eleanor Farjeon, ''The Little Bookroom'', OUP

★ '1954' Ronald Welch (Felton Ronald Oliver), ''Knight Crusader'', OUP

★ '1953' Edward Osmond, ''A Valley Grows Up''

★ '1952' Mary Norton, ''The Borrowers'', Dent

★ '1951' Cynthia Harnett, ''The Woolpack'', Methuen

★ '1950' Elfrida Vipont Foulds, ''The Lark on the Wing'', OUP

★ '1949' Agnes Allen, ''The Story of Your Home'', Faber

★ '1948' Richard Armstrong, ''Sea Change'', Dent

★ '1947' Walter De La Mare, ''Collected Stories for Children''

★ '1946' Elizabeth Goudge, ''The Little White Horse'', University of London Press

★ '1945' ''Prize withheld as no book considered suitable''

★ '1944' Eric Linklater, ''The Wind on the Moon'', Macmillan

★ '1943' ''Prize withheld as no book considered suitable''

★ '1942' 'B.B.' (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford), ''The Little Grey Men'', Eyre & Spottiswoode

★ '1941' Mary Treadgold, ''We Couldn't Leave Dinah'', Cape

★ '1940' Kitty Barne, ''Visitors from London'', Dent

★ '1939' Eleanor Doorly, ''Radium Woman'', Heinemann

★ '1938' Noel Streatfeild, ''The Circus is Coming'', Dent

★ '1937' Eve Garnett, ''The Family from One End Street'', Muller

★ '1936' Arthur Ransome, ''Pigeon Post'', Cape

Shortlists

(note that years refer to the publication date of the books - the medal was awarded the following year)

★ '2006'

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★ Kevin Brooks, ''The Road of the Dead'', The Chicken House

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★ Siobhan Dowd, ''A Swift Pure Cry'', David Ficking Books

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★ Anne Fine, ''The Road of Bones'', Doubleday

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★ Ally Kennen, ''Beast'', Marion Lloyd Books

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★ Meg Rosoff, ''Just in Case'', Penguin

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★ Marcus Sedgwick, ''My Swordhand is Singing'', Orion

★ '2005'

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★ David Almond, ''Clay'', Hodder Children's Books

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★ Frank Cottrell Boyce, ''Framed'', Macmillan Children's Books

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★ Jan Mark, ''Turbulence'', Hodder Children's Books

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★ Geraldine McCaughrean, ''The White Darkness'', Oxford University Press

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★ Mal Peet, ''Tamar'', Walker Books

★ '2004'

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★ Anne Cassidy, ''Looking for JJ'', Scholastic Children's Books

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★ Gennifer Choldenko, ''Al Capone Does My Shirts'', Bloomsbury

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★ Frank Cottrell Boyce, ''Millions'', Macmillan

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★ Sharon Creech, ''Heartbeat'', Bloomsbury

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★ Eva Ibbotson, ''The Star of Kazan'', Macmillan

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★ Philip Pullman, ''The Scarecrow and his Servant'', Doubleday

★ '2003'

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★ David Almond, ''The Fire Eaters'', Hodder Children's Books

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★ Jennifer Donnelly, ''A Gathering Light'', Bloomsbury

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★ Mark Haddon, ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time'', David Fickling Books

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★ Elizabeth Laird, ''The Garbage King'', Macmillan

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★ Michael Morpurgo, ''Private Peaceful'', Collins

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★ Linda Newbery, ''Sisterland'', David Fickling Books

★ '2002'

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★ Kevin Brooks, ''Martyn Pig'', The Chicken House

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★ Sharon Creech, ''Ruby Holler'', Bloomsbury Children's Books

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★ Anne Fine, ''Up On Clound Nine'', Corgi Books

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★ Alan Gibbons, ''The Edge'', Dolphin Paperbacks

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★ Lian Hearn, ''Across the Nightingale Floor'', Macmillan Children's Books

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★ Linda Newbery, ''The Shell House'', David Fickling Books

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★ Marcus Sedgwick, ''The Dark Horse'', Dolphin Paperbacks

★ '2001'

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★ Sharon Creech, ''Love that Dog'', Bloomsbury Children's Books

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★ Peter Dickinson, ''The Ropemaker'', Macmillan Children's Books

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★ Eva Ibbotson, ''Journey to the River Sea'', Macmillan Children's Books

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★ Elizabeth Laird, ''Jake's Tower'', Macmillan Children's Books

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★ Geraldine McCaughrean, ''The Kite Rider'', Oxford University Press

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★ Geraldine McCaughrean, ''Stop the Train'', Oxford University Press

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★ Terry Pratchett, ''Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents'', Doubleday

★ '2000'

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★ David Almond, ''Heaven Eyes'', Hodder Children's Books

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★ Melvin Burgess, ''The Ghost Behind the Wall'', Andersen Press

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★ Sharon Creech, ''The Wanderer'', Macmillan Children's Books

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★ Jamila Gavin, ''Coram Boy'', Mammoth

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★ Adéle Geras, ''Troy'', Scholastic David Fickling Books

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★ Alan Gibbons, ''Shadow of the Minotaur'', Orion

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★ Beverley Naidoo, ''The Other Side of Truth'', Puffin Books

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★ Philip Pullman, ''The Amber Spyglass'', Scholastic David Fickling Books

★ '1999'

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★ David Almond, ''Kit's Wilderness'', Hodder Children's Books

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★ Bernard Ashley, ''Little Soldier'', Orchard Books

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★ Aidan Chambers, ''Postcards from No Man's Land'', Bodley Head Children's Books

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★ Susan Cooper, ''King of Shadows'', Bodley Head Children's Books

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★ Gillian Cross, ''Tightrope'', Oxford University Press

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★ Jenny Nimmo, ''The Rinaldi Ring'', Mammoth

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★ J. K. Rowling, ''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'', Bloomsbury Children's Books

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★ Jacqueline Wilson, ''The Illustrated Mum'', Doubleday

★ '1998'

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★ David Almond, ''Skellig''

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★ Robert Cormier, ''Heroes''

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★ Peter Dickinson, ''The Kin''

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★ Chris d'Lacey, ''Fly, Cherokee, fly''

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★ Susan Price, ''The Sterkarm Handshake''

★ '1997'

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★ Malorie Blackman, ''Pig-heart Boy''

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★ Henrietta Branford, ''Fire, Bed and Bone''

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★ Tim Bowler, ''River Boy''

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★ Geraldine McCaughrean, ''Forever X''

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★ Philip Ridley, ''Scribbleboy''

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★ J.K. Rowling, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''

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★ Theresa Tomlinson, ''Meet me by the Steel Men''

★ '1996'

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★ Melvin Burgess, ''Junk''

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★ Michael Coleman, ''Weirdo's War''

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★ Anne Fine, ''The Tulip Touch''

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★ Elizabeth Laird, ''Secret Friends''

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★ Terry Pratchett, ''Johnny and the Bomb''

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★ Philip Pullman, ''Clockwork, or All Wound Up''

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★ Chloe Rayban, ''Love in Cyberia''

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★ Jacqueline Wilson, ''Bad Girls''

★ '1995'

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★ Susan Gates, ''Raider''

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★ Philip Pullman, ''

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★ Jacqueline Wilson, ''Double Act''

★ '1994'

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★ Lynne Reid Banks, ''Broken Bridge''

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★ Theresa Breslin, ''Whispers in the Graveyard''

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★ Berlie Doherty, ''Wills and old Miss Annie''

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★ Lesley Howarth, ''Maphead''

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★ Michael Morpurgo, ''Arthur High King of Britain''

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★ Jenny Nimmo, ''Griffin's Castle''

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★ Robert Westall, ''A Time of Fire''

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★ Jacqueline Wilson, ''The Bed and Breakfast Star''

★ '1993'

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★ Melvin Burgess, ''The Baby and Fly Pie''

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★ Anne Merrick, ''Someone came Knocking''

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★ Jenny Nimmo, ''The Stone Mouse''

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★ Robert Swindells, ''Stone Cold''

70th Anniversary ''Carnegie of Carnegies'' (2007)

For the 70th Anniversary of the Carnegie Medal CILIP is running an online poll to find the nation's favourite Carnegie Medal winning book of all time. The poll was launched on 20th April, and the winner - Philip Pullman's ''Northern Lights'' - was announced on 21st June at the British Library.
The shortlist of ten medal winning novels was as follows (the bracketed date refers to the year of first publication):

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★ David Almond, ''Skellig'', (1998)

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★ Melvin Burgess, ''Junk'', (1996)

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★ Kevin Crossley-Holland, ''Storm'', (1985)

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★ Jennifer Donnelly, ''A Gathering Light'', (2003)

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★ Alan Garner, ''The Owl Service'', (1967)

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★ Eve Garnett, ''The Family From One End Street'', (1937)

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★ Mary Norton, ''The Borrowers'', (1952)

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★ Philippa Pearce, ''Tom's Midnight Garden'', (1958)

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★ Philip Pullman, ''Northern Lights'', (1995)

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★ Robert Westall, ''The Machine-Gunners'', (1981)

See also

★ Blue Peter Book Awards

★ Children's Laureate

★ Guardian Award

★ Kate Greenaway Medal

★ Nestle Smarties Book Prize

★ Staffordshire YTF Book Award

External links

★ Carnegie Award homepage