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.
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 Children's Books
- 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 Wool-Pack, 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
- Kevin Brooks, The Road of the Dead, The Chicken House
- Siobhan Dowd, A Swift Pure Cry, David Ficking Books
- Anne Fine, The Road of Bones, Doubleday
- Ally Kennen, Beast, Marion Lloyd Books
- Meg Rosoff, Just in Case, Penguin
- Marcus Sedgwick, My Swordhand is Singing, Orion
- 2005
- David Almond, Clay, Hodder Children's Books
- Frank Cottrell Boyce, Framed, Macmillan Children's Books
- Jan Mark, Turbulence, Hodder Children's Books
- Geraldine McCaughrean, The White Darkness, Oxford University Press
- Mal Peet, Tamar, Walker Books
- 2004
- Anne Cassidy, Looking for JJ, Scholastic Children's Books
- Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Does My Shirts, Bloomsbury
- Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions, Macmillan
- Sharon Creech, Heartbeat, Bloomsbury
- Eva Ibbotson, The Star of Kazan, Macmillan
- Philip Pullman, The Scarecrow and his Servant, Doubleday
- 2003
- David Almond, The Fire Eaters, Hodder Children's Books
- Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light, Bloomsbury
- Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, David Fickling Books
- Elizabeth Laird, The Garbage King, Macmillan
- Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful, Collins
- Linda Newbery, Sisterland, David Fickling Books
- 2002
- Kevin Brooks, Martyn Pig, The Chicken House
- Sharon Creech, Ruby Holler, Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Anne Fine, Up On Cloud Nine, Corgi Books
- Alan Gibbons, The Edge, Dolphin Paperbacks
- Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor, Macmillan Children's Books
- Linda Newbery, The Shell House, David Fickling Books
- Marcus Sedgwick, The Dark Horse, Dolphin Paperbacks
- 2001
- Sharon Creech, Love that Dog, Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Peter Dickinson, The Ropemaker, Macmillan Children's Books
- Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea, Macmillan Children's Books
- Elizabeth Laird, Jake's Tower, Macmillan Children's Books
- Geraldine McCaughrean, The Kite Rider, Oxford University Press
- Geraldine McCaughrean, Stop the Train, Oxford University Press
- Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Doubleday
- 2000
- David Almond, Heaven Eyes, Hodder Children's Books
- Melvin Burgess, The Ghost Behind the Wall, Andersen Press
- Sharon Creech, The Wanderer, Macmillan Children's Books
- Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy, Mammoth
- Adéle Geras, Troy, Scholastic David Fickling Books
- Alan Gibbons, Shadow of the Minotaur, Orion
- Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth, Puffin Books
- Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, Scholastic David Fickling Books
- 1999
- David Almond, Kit's Wilderness, Hodder Children's Books
- Bernard Ashley, Little Soldier, Orchard Books
- Aidan Chambers, Postcards from No Man's Land, Bodley Head Children's Books
- Susan Cooper, King of Shadows, Bodley Head Children's Books
- Gillian Cross, Tightrope, Oxford University Press
- Jenny Nimmo, The Rinaldi Ring, Mammoth
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum, Doubleday
- 1998
- David Almond, Skellig
- Robert Cormier, Heroes
- Peter Dickinson, The Kin
- Chris D'Lacey, Fly, Cherokee, fly
- Susan Price, The Sterkarm Handshake
- 1997
- Malorie Blackman, Pig-heart Boy
- Henrietta Branford, Fire, Bed and Bone
- Tim Bowler, River Boy
- Geraldine McCaughrean, Forever X
- Philip Ridley, Scribbleboy
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Theresa Tomlinson, Meet me by the Steel Men
- 1996
- Melvin Burgess, Junk
- Michael Coleman, Weirdo's War
- Anne Fine, The Tulip Touch
- Elizabeth Laird, Secret Friends
- Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Bomb
- Philip Pullman, Clockwork
- Chloe Rayban, Love in Cyberia
- Jacqueline Wilson, Bad Girls
- 1995
- Susan Gates, Raider
- Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials: Book 1 Northern Lights
- Jacqueline Wilson, Double Act
- 1994
- Lynne Reid Banks, Broken Bridge
- Theresa Breslin, Whispers in the Graveyard
- Berlie Doherty, Wills and old Miss Annie
- Lesley Howarth, Maphead
- Michael Morpurgo, Arthur High King of Britain
- Jenny Nimmo, Griffin's Castle
- Robert Westall, A Time of Fire
- Jacqueline Wilson, The Bed and Breakfast Star
- 1993
- Melvin Burgess, The Baby and Fly Pie
- Anne Merrick, Someone came Knocking
- Jenny Nimmo, The Stone Mouse
- 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 20 April, and the winner - Philip Pullman's Northern Lights - was announced on 21 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)
- Melvin Burgess, Junk, (1996)
- Kevin Crossley-Holland, Storm, (1985)
- Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light, (2003)
- Alan Garner, The Owl Service, (1967)
- Eve Garnett, The Family from One End Street, (1937)
- Mary Norton, The Borrowers, (1952)
- Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden, (1958)
- Philip Pullman, Northern Lights, (1995)
- 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
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