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Carnegie Medal

Annual

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CILIP
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Press contact:
Miranda McKearney
Tel: 01962 865102

The Carnegie Medal is given for an outstanding book for children and contenders are appraised for characterisation, plot, style, accuracy, imaginative quality and that indefinable element that lifts the book above the others. (NB The date of this award is based on the year in which the books were published, not in which the award is announced e.g. the 1992 award was announced in June 1993).

Announced in July each year on the basis of nominations from CILIP members to members of the Library Association’s Youth Libraries Group - entries are not required.

Most Recent Winner

2005 Mal Peet Tamar (Walker Books)

Past Winners

2004 Frank Cottrell Boyce Millions (Macmillan)

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 (The Bodley Head)

1998 David Almond Skellig (Hodder Children’s Books)

1997 Tom Bowler River Boy (Oxford University Press)

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 (Hamish Hamilton)

1992 Anne Fine Flour Babies (Hamish Hamilton)

1991 Berlie Doherty Dear Nobody (Hamish Hamilton)

1990 Gilliam Cross Wolf (Oxford University Press)

1989 Anne Fine Goggle-Eyes (Hamish Hamilton)

1988 Geraldine McCaughrean A Pack of Lies (Oxford University Press)

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)

1980 Peter Dickinson City of Gold (Gollancz)

1979 Peter Dickinson Tulku (Gollancz)

1978 David Rees The Exeter Blitz (Hamish Hamilton)

1977 Gene Kemp The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler (Faber)

1976 Jan Mark Thunder and Lightnings (Kestrel)

1975 Robert Westall The Machine Gunners (Macmillan)

1974 Mollie Hunter The Stronghold (Hamish 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 and Edward Blishen The God Beneath the Sea (Longman)

1969 K M Peyton The Edge of the Cloud (Oxford University Press)

1968 Rosemary Harris The Moon in the Cloud (Faber)

1967 Alan Garner The Owl Service (Collins)

1966 No Award

1965 Philip Turner The Grange at High Force (Oxford University Press)

1964 Sheena Porter Nordy Bank (Oxford University Press)

1963 Hester Burton Time of Trial (Oxford University Press)

1962 Pauline Clark 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 (Oxford University Press)

1958 Phillippa Pearce Tom's Midnight Garden (Oxford University Press)

1957 William Mayne A Grass Rope (Oxford University Press)

1956 C S Lewis The Last Battle (Bodley Head)

1955 Eleanor Farjeon The Little Bookworm (Oxford University Press)

1954 Ronald Welch (Felton Ronald Oliver) Knight Crusader (Oxford University Press)

1953 Edward Osmond A Valley Grows Up (Oxford University Press)

1952 Mary Norton The Borrowers (Dent)

1951 Cynthia Harnett The Woolpack (Methuen)

1950 Elfrida Vipont The Lark on the Wing (Faber)

1949 Agnes Allen The Story of Your Home (Faber)

1948 R Armstrong Sea Change (Dent)

1947 Walter de la Mare Collected Stories for Children (Faber)

1946 Elizabeth Goudge The Little White Horse (University of London Press)

1945 No Award

1944 Eric Linklater The Wind on the Moon (Macmillan)

1943 No Award

1942 " B B" (D J Watkins-Pitchford) The Little Grey Men (Eyre & Spottiswoode)

1941 M 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)