Children's Book Prize Archive
Carnegie Medal
Annual
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The Carnegie Medal is given for an outstanding book for children and young people. Contenders are appraised for characterisation, plot, style, accuracy, imaginative quality and that indefinable element that lifts the book above the others.
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.
Please note that before 2007 the year refers to when the book was published rather than when the medal was awarded i.e. the 2005 winner was announced and the medal presented in July 2006.
Most Recent Winner
2011Monsters of Men, Patrick Ness (Walker)
Previous Winners
2010The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury)
2009Bog Child, Siobhan Dowd (David Fickling)
2008Here Lies Arthur, Philip Reeve (Scholastic)
2007Meg Rosoff, Just in Case (Penguin)
2005Tamar, Mal Peet (Walker Books)
2004Millions, Frank Cottrell Boyce (Macmillan)
2003A Gathering Light, Jennifer Donnelly (Bloomsbury)
2002Ruby Holler, Sharon Creech (Bloomsbury)
2001The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday)
2000The Other Side of Truth, Beverley Naidoo (Puffin)
1999Postcards From No Man's Land, Aidan Chambers (The Bodley Head)
1998Skellig, David Almond (Hodder Children's Books)
1997River Boy, Tom Bowler (Oxford University Press)
1996Junk, Melvin Burgess (Andersen Press)
1995His Dark Materials: Book 1, Northern Lights, Philip Pullman (Scholastic)
1994Whispers in the Graveyard, Theresa Breslin (Methuen)
1993Stone Cold, Robert Swindells (Hamish Hamilton)
1992Flour Babies, Anne Fine (Hamish Hamilton)
1991 Dear Nobody, Berlie Doherty (Hamish Hamilton)
1990Wolf, Gilliam Cross (Oxford University Press)
1989Goggle-Eyes, Anne Fine (Hamish Hamilton)
1988A Pack of Lies, Geraldine McCaughrean (Oxford University Press)
1987The Ghost Drum, Susan Price (Faber)
1986 Granny was a Buffer Girl, Berlie Doherty (Methuen)
1985Storm, Kevin Crossley-Holland (Heinemann)
1984The Changeove, Margaret Mahy r (Dent)
1983Handles, Jan Mark (Kestrel)
1982The Haunting, Margaret Mahy (Dent)
1981The Scarecrow, Robert Westall s (Chatto)
1980City of Gold, Peter Dickinson (Gollancz)
1979Tulku, Peter Dickinson (Gollancz)
1978 The Exeter Blitz, David Rees (Hamish Hamilton)
1977The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler, Gene Kemp (Faber)
1976Thunder and Lightnings, Jan Mark (Kestrel)
1975The Machine Gunners, Robert Westall (Macmillan)
1974The Stronghold, Mollie Hunter (Hamish Hamilton)
1973The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, Penelope Lively (Heinemann)
1972Watership Down, Richard Adams (Rex Collings)
1971Josh, Ivan Southall (Angus & Robertson)
1970The God Beneath the Sea, Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen (Longman)
1969The Edge of the Cloud, K M Peyton (Oxford University Press)
1968The Moon in the Cloud, Rosemary Harris (Faber)
1967 The Owl Service, Alan Garner (Collins)
1966No Award
1965The Grange at High Force , Philip Turner (Oxford University Press)
1964Nordy Bank, Sheena Porter (Oxford University Press)
1963Time of Trial , Hester Burton (Oxford University Press)
1962The Twelve and the Genii, Pauline Clark (Faber)
1961A Stranger at Green Knowe, Lucy M Boston (Faber)
1960The Making of Man, Dr. I. W. Cornwall (Phoenix House)
1959The Lantern Bearers, Rosemary Sutcliff (Oxford University Press)
1958 Tom's Midnight Garden, Phillippa Pearce (Oxford University Press)
1957A Grass Rope, William Mayne (Oxford University Press)
1956The Last Battle, C S Lewis (Bodley Head)
1955The Little Bookworm , Eleanor Farjeon (Oxford University Press)
1954Knight Crusader, Ronald Welch (Felton Ronald Oliver) (Oxford University Press)
1953A Valley Grows Up, Edward Osmond (Oxford University Press)
1952 The Borrowers, Mary Norton (Dent)
1951The Woolpack, Cynthia Harnett (Methuen)
1950The Lark on the Wing, Elfrida Vipont (Faber)
1949The Story of Your Home , Agnes Allen (Faber)
1948Sea Change , R Armstrong (Dent)
1947Collected Stories for Children , Walter de la Mare (Faber)
1946The Little White Horse, Elizabeth Goudge (University of London Press)
1945No Award
1944The Wind on the Moon, Eric Linklater (Macmillan)
1943No Award
1942The Little Grey Men, " B B" (D J Watkins-Pitchford) (Eyre & Spottiswoode)
1941We Couldn't Leave Dinah, M Treadgold (Cape)
1940Visitors from London, Kitty Barne (Dent)
1939Radium Woman, Eleanor Doorly (Heinemann)
1938The Circus is Coming, Noel Streatfeild (Dent)
1937The Family from One End Street, Eve Garnett (Muller)
1936Pigeon Post, Arthur Ransome (Cape)
