Carnegie Medal in Literature

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 year before. The Carnegie judging panel consists of 13 children’s librarians from the Youth Libraries Group of Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP).

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Carnegie Medal in Literature – Winners 1936-2013

(alphabetical listing)

Acevedo, Elizabeth – The Poet X
Adams, Richard – Watership Down
Allen, Agnes – The Story of Your Home
Almond, David – Skellig
Armstrong, Richard – Sea Change
B. B. – The Little Grey Men
Barne, Kitty – Visitors from London
Blishen, Edward and Garfield, Leon – The God Beneath the Sea (also listed under ‘Garfield’)
Boston, Lucy M. – A Stranger at Green Knowe
Bowler, Tim – River Boy
Boyce, Frank Cottrell – Millions
Breslin, Theresa – Whispers in the Graveyard
Brooks, Kevin – The Bunker Diary
Burgess, Melvin – Junk
Burton, Hester – Time of Trial
Chambers, Aidan – Postcards from No Man’s Land
Clarke, Pauline – The Twelve and the Genii
Cornwall, Ian Wolfram – The Making of Man
Creech, Sharon – Ruby Holler
Cross, Gillian – Wolf
Crossan, Sarah – One
Crossley-Holland, Kevin – Storm
de la Mare, Walter – Collected Stories for Children
Dickinson, Peter – City of Gold ; Tulku
Doherty, Berlie – Dear Nobody ; Granny Was a Buffer Girl
Donnelly, Jennifer – A Gathering Light
Doorly, Eleanor – The Radium Woman
Dowd, Siobhan – Bog Child
Farjeon, Eleanor – The Little Bookroom
Fine, Anne – Flour Babies ; Goggle-Eyes
Gaiman, Neil – The Graveyard Book
Gardner, Sally – Maggot Moon
Garfield, Leon and Blishen, Edward – The God Beneath the Sea
Garner, Alan – The Owl Service
Garnett, Eve – The Family from One End Street
Goudge, Elizabeth – The Little White Horse
Harnett, Cynthia – The Wool-Pack
Harris, Rosemary – The Moon in the Cloud
Hunter, Molly – The Stronghold
Kemp, Gene – The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler
Landman, Tanya – Buffalo Soldier
Lewis, C.S. – The Last Battle
Linklater, Eric – The Wind on the Moon
Lively, Penelope – The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Mahy, Margaret – The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance ; The Haunting
Mark, Jan – Handles ; Thunder and Lightning
Mayne, William – A Grass Rope
McCaughrean, Geraldine – A Pack of Lies, Where the World Ends
McGowan, Anthony – Lark
Naidoo, Beverley – The Other Side of Truth
Ness, Patrick – Monsters of Men, A Monster Calls
Norton, Mary – The Borrowers
Osmond, Edward – A Valley Grows Up
Pearce, Philippa – Tom’s Midnight Garden
Peet, Mal – Tamar
Peyton, K.M. – The Edge of the Cloud
Porter, Sheena – Nordy Bank
Pratchett, Terry – The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
Price, Susan – The Ghost Drum
Pullman, Philip – His Dark Materials: Book 1 Northern Lights
Ransome, Arthur – Pigeon Post
Rees, David – The Exeter Blitz
Reeve, Philip – Here Lies Arthur
Rosoff, Meg – Just in Case
Sepetys, Ruta – Salt to the Sea
Southall, Ivan – Josh
Streatfeild, Noel – The Circus is Coming
Sutcliff, Rosemary – The Lantern Bearers
Swindells, Robert – Stone Cold
Treadgold, Mary – We Couldn’t Leave Dinah
Turner, Philip – The Grange at High Force
Vipont, Elfrida – The Lark on the Wing
Welch, Ronald – Knight Crusader
Westall, Robert – The Scarecrows ; The Machine Gunners