Carnegie Medal
The Carnegie Medal recognizes the writer of an outstanding children's book each year since 1936. It is now awarded by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. Originally it was established by The Library Association in memory of the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie who set up more than 2,800 free libraries around the world.
Library professionals nominate the books to be considered for the medal and a panel of independent judges selects the winner.
The winner receives a gold medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a library of their choice.
Winners
Year |
Title |
Author |
2004 |
Millions | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
2003 |
A Gathering Light | Jennifer Donnelly |
2002 |
Ruby Holler | Sharon Creech |
2001 |
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents | Terry Pratchett |
2000 |
The Other Side of Truth | Beverley Naidoo |
1999 |
Postcards from No Man's Land | Aidan Chambers |
1998 |
Skellig | David Almond |
1997 |
River Boy | Tim Bowler |
1996 |
Junk | Melvin Burgess |
1995 |
His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman |
1994 |
Whispers in the Graveyard | Theresa Breslin |
1993 |
Stone Cold | Robert Swindells |
1992 |
Flour Babies | Anne Fine |
1991 |
Dear Nobody | Berlie Doherty |
1990 |
Wolf | Gillian Cross |
1989 |
Goggle-eyes | Anne Fine |
1988 |
A Pack of Lies | Geraldine McCaughrean |
1987 |
The Ghost Drum | Susan Price |
1986 |
Granny Was a Buffer Girl | Berlie Doherty |
1985 |
Storm | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
1984 |
The Changeover | Margaret Mahy |
1983 |
Handles | Jan Mark |
1982 |
The Haunting | Margaret Mahy |
1981 |
The Scarecrows | Robert Westall |
1980 |
City of Gold | Peter Dickinson |
1979 |
Tulku | Peter Dickinson |
1978 |
The Exeter Blitz | David Rees |
1977 |
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler | Gene Kemp |
1976 |
Thunder and Lightnings | Jan Mark |
1975 |
The Machine Gunners | Robert Westall |
1974 |
The Stronghold | Mollie Hunter |
1973 |
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe | Penelope Lively |
1972 |
Watership Down | Richard Adams |
1971 |
Josh | Ivan Southall |
1970 |
The God Beneath the Sea | Leon Garfield, Edward Blishen |
1969 |
The Edge of the Cloud | Kathleen Peyton |
1968 |
The Moon in the Cloud | Rosemary Harris |
1967 |
The Owl Service | Alan Garner |
1966 |
no winner | |
1965 |
The Grange at High Force | Philip Turner |
1964 |
Nordy Bank | Sheena Porter |
1963 |
Time of Trial | Hester Burton |
1962 |
The Twelve and the Genii | Pauline Clarke |
1961 |
A Stranger at Green Knowe | Lucy Boston |
1960 |
The Making of Man | Dr. I.W. Cornwall |
1959 |
The Lantern Bearers | Rosemary Sutcliff |
1958 |
Tom's Midnight Garden | Philipa Pearce |
1957 |
A Grass Rope | William Mayne |
1956 |
The Last Battle | C.S. Lewis |
1955 |
The Little Bookroom | Eleanor Farjeon |
1954 |
Knight Crusader | Ronald Welch |
1953 |
A Valley Grows Up | Edward Osmond |
1952 |
The Borrowers | Mary Norton |
1951 |
The Woolpack | Cynthia Harnett |
1950 |
The Lark on the Wing | Elfrida Vipont Foulds |
1949 |
The Story of Your Home | Agnes Allen |
1948 |
Sea Change | Richard Armstrong |
1947 |
Collected Stories for Children | Walter De Le Mare |
1946 |
The Little White Horse | Elizabeth Goudge |
1945 |
no winner | |
1944 |
The Wind on the Moon | Eric Linklater |
1943 |
no winner | |
1942 |
The Little Grey Men | D.J. Watkins-Pitchford |
1941 |
We Couldn't Leave Dinah | Mary Treadgold |
1940 |
Visitors from London | Kitty Barne |
1939 |
Radium Woman | Eleanor Doorly |
1938 |
The Circus is Coming | Noel Streatfield |
1937 |
The Family From One End Street | Eve Garnett |
1936 |
Pigeon Post | Arthur Ransome |
