Carnegie Medal (literary award)

Not to be confused with Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.

The Carnegie Medal for Writing, established in 1936 as the Carnegie Medal, is an annual British literary award for English-language books for children or young adults. It is conferred upon the author by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), who in 2016 called it "the UK's oldest and most prestigious book award for children's writing".^[1]

The Carnegie Medal for Writing
Awarded for	Outstanding new English-language book for children or young adults
Sponsored by	Scholastic, ALCS
Reward(s)	£5,000
First awarded	1936; 88 years ago (1936)
Last awarded	Active
Website	carnegies.co.uk

Nominated books must be written in English and first published in the UK during the preceding school year (September to August).^[2] Until 1969, the award was limited to books by British authors first published in England.^[3] The first non-British medalist was Australian author Ivan Southall for Josh (1972). The original rules also prohibited winning authors from future consideration.^[3] The first author to win a second Carnegie Medal was Peter Dickinson in 1981, who won consecutively for Tulku and City of Gold. As of 2024, eight authors had received the Medal more than once.

The winner is awarded a gold medal and £500 worth of books donated to the winner's chosen library. In addition, since 2016 the winner has received a £5,000 cash prize from the Colin Mears bequest.^[4][5]

History

The Medal is named after the Scottish-born American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), who founded more than 2,800 libraries in the English-speaking world, including at least one in more than half of British library authorities.^[4] It was established in 1936 by the British Library Association, to celebrate the centenary of Carnegie's birth,^[4][6] and inaugurated in 1937 with the award to Arthur Ransome for Pigeon Post (1936) and the identification of two "commended" books.^[6] This first Medal was dated 1936, but since 2007 the award has been dated by its year of presentation, not year of publication.^[7]

In 1955, the Kate Greenaway Medal, for "distinguished illustration in a book for children", was established as a companion to the Carnegie Medal.^[8]

Both awards were established and administered by the Library Association, until it was succeeded by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) in 2002.^[6] In 2022, the two awards were renamed to the Carnegie Medal for Writing and the Carnegie Medal for Illustration.^[9]

From 2022 to 2024, the award was sponsored by the audio technology company Yoto and was called the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing.^[10] As of 2025 the awards are sponsored by Scholastic and the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS).^[11]

Process

CILIP members may nominate books each September and October, with the full list of valid nominations published in November.^[12] The longlist, chosen by the judges from the nominated books, is published in February. The judging panel comprises 12 children's librarians, all of whom are members of CILIP's Youth Libraries Group (YLG). The shortlist is announced in March and the winner in June.^[12]

Titles must be English-language works first published in the UK during the preceding year (1 September to 31 August). According to CILIP, "all categories of books, including poetry, non-fiction and graphic novels, in print or ebook format, for children and young people are eligible".^[2] Multiple-author anthologies are excluded; however, co-authored single works are eligible.^[2]

Young people from across the UK take part in shadowing groups organised by secondary schools and public libraries, to read and discuss the shortlisted books.^[12]

CILIP instructs the judging panel to consider plot, characterisation, and style.^[2] Furthermore, it states that "the book that wins the Carnegie Medal should be a book of outstanding literary quality. The whole work should provide pleasure, not merely from the surface enjoyment of a good read, but also the deeper subconscious satisfaction of having gone through a vicarious, but at the time of reading, a real experience that is retained afterwards."^[2]

A diversity review in 2018 led to changes in the nomination and judging process to promote better representation of ethnic minority authors and books.^[13]

2024 award

Joseph Coelho won the 2024 Carnegie Medal for The Boy Lost in the Maze,^[14] a verse novel that uses the legend of the Minotaur in a tale of a teenager searching for his biological father.

There were eight books on the 2024 shortlist:^[15]

• Kwame Alexander, The Door of No Return (Andersen)
• Zillah Bethell, The Song Walker (Usborne)
• Sophie Cameron, Away with Words (Little Tiger)
• Joseph Coelho, illus. by Kate Milner, The Boy Lost in the Maze (Otter-Barry Books)
• Nicola Davies, illus. by Petr Horáček, Choose Love (Graffeg)
• Tia Fisher, Crossing the Line (Bonnier) Winner of the Shadowers choice
• Hiba Noor Khan, Safiyyah's War (Andersen)
• Nathanael Lessore, Steady for This (Bonnier)

Winners

As of 2024, 85 Medals have been awarded over 88 years, spanning the period from 1936 to 2024. No eligible book published in 1943, 1945, or 1966 was considered suitable by the judging panel.^[7]

From 2007 onward, the medals are dated by the year of presentation. Prior to this, they were dated by the calendar year of their British publication.^[7]

Forty-one winning books were illustrated in their first editions, including every one during the first three decades. Six from 1936 to 1953 were illustrated or co-illustrated by their authors; none since then.

Carnegie Medal winners^[7]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.
1936	Arthur Ransome	Pigeon Post	Jonathan Cape
1937[a]	Eve Garnett	The Family from One End Street	Frederick Muller	[17]
1938	Noel Streatfeild	The Circus Is Coming	J. M. Dent
1939	Eleanor Doorly	The Radium Woman	Heinemann
1940	Kitty Barne	Visitors from London	J. M. Dent
1941	Mary Treadgold	We Couldn't Leave Dinah	Jonathan Cape
1942	BB	The Little Grey Men	Eyre & Spottiswoode	[17]
1943	(Prize withheld as no book considered suitable)
1944	Eric Linklater	The Wind on the Moon	Macmillan
1945	(Prize withheld as no book considered suitable)
1946	Elizabeth Goudge	The Little White Horse	University of London	[17]
1947	Walter de la Mare	Collected Stories for Children	Faber
1948	Richard Armstrong	Sea Change	J. M. Dent
1949	Agnes Allen illus. Agnes and Jack Allen[b]	The Story of Your Home
1950	Elfrida Vipont	The Lark on the Wing	Oxford University Press
1951	Cynthia Harnett illus. by the author[b]	The Wool-Pack	Methuen
1952[a]	Mary Norton	The Borrowers	J. M. Dent	[17]
1953	Edward Osmond illus. by the author[b]	A Valley Grows Up	Oxford University Press
1954	Ronald Welch (Felton Ronald Oliver)	Knight Crusader	Oxford University Press
1955	Eleanor Farjeon	The Little Bookroom	Oxford University Press
1956	C. S. Lewis	The Last Battle	The Bodley Head	[17]
1957	William Mayne	A Grass Rope	Oxford University Press
1958[a]	Philippa Pearce	Tom's Midnight Garden	Oxford University Press	[17]
1959	Rosemary Sutcliff	The Lantern Bearers	Oxford University Press	[17]
1960	Ian Wolfran Cornwall illus. Marjorie Maitland Howard	The Making of Man	Phoenix House
1961	Lucy M. Boston	A Stranger at Green Knowe	Faber	[17]
1962	Pauline Clarke	The Twelve and the Genii	Faber
1963	Hester Burton	Time of Trial	Oxford University Press
1964	Sheena Porter	Nordy Bank	Oxford University Press
1965	Philip Turner	The Grange at High Force	Oxford University Press
1966	(Prize withheld as no book considered suitable[c])
1967[a]	Alan Garner	The Owl Service	Collins	[17]
1968	Rosemary Harris	The Moon in the Cloud	Faber
1969	K. M. Peyton	The Edge of the Cloud	Oxford University Press	[17]
1970	Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen illustrated by Charles Keeping	The God Beneath the Sea	Longman
1971	Ivan Southall	Josh	Angus & Robertson
1972	Richard Adams	Watership Down	Rex Collings	[17]
1973	Penelope Lively	The Ghost of Thomas Kempe	Heinemann
1974	Mollie Hunter	The Stronghold	Hamish Hamilton
1975[a]	Robert Westall	The Machine Gunners	Macmillan
1976	Jan Mark	Thunder and Lightnings	Kestrel	[17]
1977	Gene Kemp	The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler	Faber	[17]
1978	David Rees	The Exeter Blitz	Hamish Hamilton
1979	Peter Dickinson	Tulku	Gollancz	[17]
1980	Peter Dickinson illus. Michael Foreman	City of Gold and other stories from the Old Testament	Gollancz
1981	Robert Westall	The Scarecrows	Chatto & Windus
1982	Margaret Mahy	The Haunting	J. M. Dent	[17]
1983	Jan Mark	Handles	Kestrel
1984	Margaret Mahy	The Changeover	J. M. Dent
1985[a]	Kevin Crossley-Holland illus. Alan Marks	Storm	Heinemann	[17]
1986	Berlie Doherty	Granny Was a Buffer Girl	Methuen	[17]
1987	Susan Price	The Ghost Drum	Faber
1988	Geraldine McCaughrean	A Pack of Lies	Oxford University Press	[17]
1989	Anne Fine	Goggle-Eyes	Hamish Hamilton	[17]
1990	Gillian Cross	Wolf	Oxford University Press	[17]
1991	Berlie Doherty	Dear Nobody	Hamish Hamilton
1992	Anne Fine	Flour Babies	Hamish Hamilton
1993	Robert Swindells	Stone Cold	Hamish Hamilton
1994	Theresa Breslin	Whispers in the Graveyard	Methuen	[18]
1995[a]	Philip Pullman	Northern Lights	Scholastic	[17]
1996[a]	Melvin Burgess	Junk	Andersen Press	[17]
1997	Tim Bowler	River Boy	Oxford University Press
1998[a]	David Almond illus. Adam Fisher	Skellig	Hodder & Stoughton	[17]
1999	Aidan Chambers	Postcards from No Man's Land	The Bodley Head
2000	Beverley Naidoo	The Other Side of Truth	Puffin	[17]
2001	Terry Pratchett	The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents	Doubleday
2002	Sharon Creech	Ruby Holler	Bloomsbury
2003[a]	Jennifer Donnelly	A Gathering Light	Bloomsbury
2004	Frank Cottrell Boyce	Millions	Macmillan	[17][19]
2005	Mal Peet	Tamar	Walker Books	[17][20]
2006	(The award date is the year of publication before 2006, the year of presentation after 2006.)
2007	Meg Rosoff	Just in Case	Penguin	[17]
2008	Philip Reeve	Here Lies Arthur	Scholastic	[17]
2009	Siobhan Dowd	Bog Child	David Fickling	[17][21]
2010	Neil Gaiman two illustrators[d]	The Graveyard Book	Bloomsbury	[17][22]
2011	Patrick Ness	Monsters of Men	Walker Books	[17][23]
2012	Patrick Ness illustrated by Jim Kay	A Monster Calls	Walker Books	[17][24]
2013	Sally Gardner	Maggot Moon	Hot Key Books	[17][25]
2014	Kevin Brooks	The Bunker Diary	Penguin Books	[17][26]
2015	Tanya Landman	Buffalo Soldier	Walker Books	[17][27]
2016	Sarah Crossan	One	Bloomsbury Children's	[28]
2017	Ruta Sepetys	Salt to the Sea	Penguin Books
2018	Geraldine McCaughrean illustrated by Jane Milloy	Where the World Ends	Usborne Publishing
2019	Elizabeth Acevedo	The Poet X	HarperTeen	[29]
2020	Anthony McGowan	Lark	Barrington Stoke
2021	Jason Reynolds	Look Both Ways	Knights Of	[30]
2022	Katya Balen	October, October	Bloomsbury	[31]
2023	Manon Steffan Ros	The Blue Book of Nebo	Firefly Press
2024	Joseph Coelho	The Boy Lost in the Maze	Otter-Barry Books	[32]

Carnegie of Carnegies

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Carnegie Medal in 2007, CILIP created a 'Living Archive' on the Carnegie Medal website with information about each of the winning books and conducted a poll to identify the nation's favourite Carnegie Medal winner, to be named the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The winner, announced on 21 June 2007 at the British Library, was Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (1995). It was the expected winner, garnering 40% of the votes in the UK, and 36% worldwide.^[33]

70th Anniversary Top Ten

• David Almond, Skellig, (Hodder, 1998)
• Melvin Burgess, Junk, (Penguin, 1996)
• Kevin Crossley-Holland, Storm, (Egmont, 1985)
• Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light, (Bloomsbury, 2003)
• Alan Garner, The Owl Service, (HarperCollins, 1967)
• Eve Garnett, The Family from One End Street, (Penguin, 1937)
• Mary Norton, The Borrowers, (Penguin, 1952)
• Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden, (Oxford, 1958)
• Philip Pullman, Northern Lights, (Scholastic, 1995)
• Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners, (Macmillan, 1975)

Northern Lights, with 40% of the public vote, was followed by 16% for Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce and 8% for Skellig by David Almond. As those three books had won the 70-year-old Medal in its year 60, year 23, and year 63, some commentary observed that Tom's Midnight Garden had passed a test of time that the others had not yet faced.^[34]

Honorees

Prior to 2007, the award year matched books' year of publication with selection announced and medals presented early the following year.^[35]

1930s

Medal winners and commended titles, 1936-1939^[6]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1936	Arthur Ransome	Pigeon Post	Jonathan Cape	Winner
	Howard Spring	Sampson's Circus		Commended
	Noel Streatfeild	Ballet Shoes		Commended
1937	Eve Garnett[a]	The Family from One End Street	Frederick Muller	Winner	[17]
1938	Noel Streatfeild	The Circus Is Coming	J. M. Dent	Winner
1939	Eleanor Doorly	The Radium Woman	Heinemann	Winner

1940s

Medal winners and commended titles, 1940-1949^[6]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1940	Kitty Barne	Visitors from London	J. M. Dent	Winner
1941	Mary Treadgold	We Couldn't Leave Dinah	Jonathan Cape	Winner
1942	BB	The Little Grey Men	Eyre & Spottiswoode	Winner	[17]
1943	Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1944	Eric Linklater	The Wind on the Moon	Macmillan	Winner
1945	Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1946	Elizabeth Goudge	The Little White Horse	University of London	Winner	[17]
1947	Walter de la Mare	Collected Stories for Children	Faber & Faber	Winner
1948	Richard Armstrong	Sea Change	J. M. Dent	Winner
1949	Agnes Allen, illus. Agnes and Jack Allen	The Story of Your Home	Faber & Faber	Winner

1950s

Medal winners and commended titles, 1950-1959^[6]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1950	Elfrida Vipont	The Lark on the Wing	Oxford University Press	Winner
1951	Cynthia Harnett	The Wool-Pack	Methuen Publishing	Winner
1952	Mary Norton	The Borrowers[a]	J. M. Dent	Winner	[17]
1953	Edward Osmond	A Valley Grows Up	Oxford University Press	Winner
1954[e]	Ronald Welch	Knight Crusader	Oxford University Press	Winner
	Harold Jones and Kathleen Lines	Lavender's Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes		Special commendation
	Lucy M. Boston	Children of Green Knowe		Commended
	Nicholas Stuart Gray	Over the Hills to Fabylon		Commended
	C. S. Lewis	The Horse and His Boy		Commended
	Barbara Leonie Picard	The Lady of the Linden Tree		Commended
	James Reeves	English Fables and Fairy Stories		Commended
	Rosemary Sutcliff	The Eagle of the Ninth		Commended
1955	Eleanor Farjeon	The Little Bookroom	Oxford University Press	Winner
	Lancelot Hogben	Man Must Measure: The Wonderful World of Mathematics		Commended
	Margaret Jowett	Candidate for Fame		Commended
	Jo Manton	The Story of Albert Schweitzer		Commended
	William Mayne	A Swarm in May		Commended
	A. Philippa Pearce	Minnow on the Say		Commended
1956	C. S. Lewis	The Last Battle	The Bodley Head	Winner	[17]
	Rumer Godden	The Fairy Doll		Commended
	William Mayne	Choristers' Cake		Commended
	William Mayne	The Member for the Marsh		Commended
	Barbara Leonie Picard	Ransom for a Knight		Commended
	Ian Serraillier	The Silver Sword		Commended
	Rosemary Sutcliff	The Shield Ring		Commended
1957	William Mayne	A Grass Rope	Oxford University Press	Winner
	Gillian Avery	The Warden's Niece		Commended
	Anne Barrett	Sogberd's Grove		Commended
	Antonia Forest	Falconer's Lure		Commended
	William Mayne	The Blue Boat		Commended
	Katharine Savage	The Story of the Second World War		Commended
	Rosemary Sutcliff	The Silver Branch		Commended
1958	Philippa Pearce	Tom's Midnight Garden[a]	Oxford University Press	Winner	[17]
	Lucy M. Boston	The Chimneys of Green Knowe		Commended
	Rosemary Sutcliff	Warrior Scarlet		Commended
1959	Rosemary Sutcliff	The Lantern Bearers	Oxford University Press	Winner	[17]
	Cynthia Harnett	The Load of Unicorn		Commended
	Mary Norton	The Borrowers Afloat		Commended
	Margery Sharp	The Rescuers		Commended
	John Verney	Friday's Tunnel		Commended
	Andres Young	Quiet as Moss: 36 Poems		Commended

1960s

Medal winners and commended titles, 1960-1969^[6]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1960	Ian Wolfran Cornwall, illus. by Marjorie Maitland Howard	The Making of Man	Phoenix House	Winner
	Hester Burton	The Great Gale		Commended
	Robert Graves	The Penny Fiddle		Commended
	Frederick Grice	The Bonny Pit Laddie		Commended
	Mary K. Harris	Seraphina		Commended
	Ian Serraillier	The Ivory Horn		Commended
1961	Lucy M. Boston	A Stranger at Green Knowe	Faber & Faber	Winner	[17]
	Antonia Forest	Peter's Room		Commended
	Rumer Godden	Miss Happiness and Miss Flower		Commended
	James Reeves	Ragged Robin		Commended
	John Verney	February's Road		Commended
1962	Pauline Clarke	The Twelve and the Genii	Faber & Faber	Winner
	Gillian Avery	The Greatest Gresham		Commended
	Hester Burton	Castors Away		Commended
	Samuel E. Ellacott	Armour and Blade		Commended
	Penelope Farmer	The Summer Birds		Commended
	Jo Manton	The Story of John Keats		Commended
	K. M. Peyton	Windfall		Commended
1963	Hester Burton	Time of Trial	Oxford University Press	Winner
	Eric Allan	The Latchkey Children		Commended
	Ralph Arnold	Kings, Bishops, Knights, and Pawns: Life in a Feudal Society		Commended
	Margaret J. Baker	Castaway Christmas		Commended
	Antonia Forest	The Thursday Kidnapping		Commended
	John Rowe Townsend	Hell's Edge		Commended
1964	Sheena Porter	Nordy Bank	Oxford University Press	Winner
	Eric S. de Mare	London's Riverside		Commended
	Jenny Grace Fyson	The Three Brothers of Ur		Commended
	C. Walter Hodges	Namesake		Commended
	K. M. Peyton	The Maplin Bird		Commended
1965	Philip Turner	The Grange at High Force	Oxford University Press	Winner
	Alan Garner	Elidor		Commended
	Jenny Grace Fyson	The Journey of the Eldest Son		Commended
	Mary K. Harris	The Bus Girls		Commended
	C. Headington	The Orchestra and Its Instruments		Commended
	K. M. Peyton	The Plan for Birdmarsh		Commended
	Barbara Leonie Picard	One is One		Commended
1966	Prize withheld as no book considered suitable[c]
	Norman Denny and Josephine Filmer-Sankey	The Bayeux Tapestry: The Story of the Norman Conquest, 1066		Highly commended
	Helen Griffith	The Wild Horse of Santander		Commended
	K. M. Peyton	Thunder in the Sky		Commended
	Morna Stuart	Marassa and Midnight		Commended
1967	Alan Garner	The Owl Service[a]	Collins	Winner	[17]
	Henry Treece	The Dream Time		Highly commended
	Helen Cresswell	The Piemakers		Commended
	Leon Garfield	Smith		Commended
	K. M. Peyton	Flambards		Commended
1968	Rosemary Harris	The Moon in the Cloud	Faber & Faber	Winner
	Joan Aiken	The Whispering Mountain		Commended
	Margaret Balderson	When Jays Fly to Barbmo		Commended
	Leon Garfield	Black Jack		Commended
1969	K. M. Peyton	The Edge of the Cloud	Oxford University Press	Winner	[17]
	Helen Cresswell	The Night Watchman		Commended
	K. M. Peyton	Flambards in Summer		Commended
	John Rowe Townsend	The Intruder		Commended

1970s

Medal winners and commended titles, 1970-1979^[6]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1970	Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, illus. by Charles Keeping	The God Beneath the Sea	Longman	Winner
	Peter Dickinson	The Devil's Children		Commended
	Leon Garfield	The Drummer Boy		Commended
	William Mayne	Ravensgill		Commended
1971	Ivan Southall	Josh	Angus & Robertson	Winner
	Gillian Avery	A Likely Lad		Commended
	Helen Cresswell	Up the Pier		Commended
	Rosemary Sutcliff	Tristan and Iseult		Commended
1972	Richard Adams	Watership Down	Rex Collings	Winner	[17]
	Peter Dickinson	The Dancing Bear		Commended
	Emma Smith	No Way of Telling		Commended
1973	Penelope Lively	The Ghost of Thomas Kempe	Heinemann	Winner
	Nina Bawden	Carrie's War		Commended
	Susan Cooper	The Dark Is Rising		Commended
	Helen Cresswell	The Bongleweed		Commended
1974	Mollie Hunter	The Stronghold	Hamish Hamilton	Winner
	Ian Ribbons	The Battle of Gettysburg, 1–3 July 1963	Oxford University Press	Highly commended
	Winifred Cawley	Gran at Coalgate		Commended
	Jill Paton Walsh	The Emperor's Winding Sheet		Commended
1975	Robert Westall	The Machine Gunners[a]	Macmillan	Winner
	Susan Cooper	The Grey King		Commended
	Diana Wynne Jones	Dogsbody		Commended
1976	Jan Mark	Thunder and Lightnings	Kestrel	Winner	[17]
	Peter Dickinson	The Blue Hawk		Commended
1977	Gene Kemp	The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler	Faber & Faber	Winner	[17]
	Peter Carter	Under Goliath		Commended
	Diana Wynne Jones	Charmed Life		Commended
	Philippa Pearce	The Shadow-Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural		Commended
1978	David Rees	The Exeter Blitz	Hamish Hamilton	Winner
1979	Peter Dickinson	Tulku	Gollancz	Winner	[17]
	Sheila Sancha	The Castle Story		Highly commended
	Bernard Ashley	A Wild Kind of Justice		Commended
	Philippa Pearce	The Battle of Bubble and Squeak		Commended
	Robert Westall	The Devil on the Road		Commended

1980s

Medal winners and commended titles, 1980-1989^[6]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1980	Peter Dickinson, illus. by Michael Foreman	City of Gold and other stories from the Old Testament	Gollancz	Winner
	Jan Mark	Nothing To Be Afraid Of		Highly commended
	John Branfield	The Fox in Winter		Commended
	Jan Needle	A Sense of Shame		Commended
1981	Robert Westall	The Scarecrows	Chatto & Windus	Winner
	Jane Gardam	The Hollow Land		Highly commended
	Jane Gardam	Bridget and William		Commended
	Michelle Magorian	Goodnight Mister Tom		Commended
1982	Margaret Mahy	The Haunting	J. M. Dent	Winner	[17]
	Gillian Cross	The Dark Behind the Curtain		Highly commended
	Tim Kennemore	Wall of Words		Commended
1983	Jan Mark	Handles	Kestrel	Winner
	James Watson	Talking in Whispers		Highly commended
	Philippa Pearce	The Way to Sattin Shore		Commended
	Patricia Wrightson	A Little Fear		Commended
1984	Margaret Mahy	The Changeover	J. M. Dent	Winner
	Robert Swindells	Brother in the Land	Oxford University Press	Highly commended
1985	Kevin Crossley-Holland, illus. Alan Marks	Storm[a]	Heinemann	Winner	[17]
	Janni Howker	Nature of the Beast		Highly commended
1986	Berlie Doherty	Granny Was a Buffer Girl	Methuen Publishing	Winner	[17]
	Janni Howker	Isaac Campion		Highly commended
	Bernard Ashley	Running Scared		Commended
	Gillian Cross	Chartbreaker		Commended
	Andrew Taylor	Coal House		Commended
1987	Susan Price	The Ghost Drum	Faber & Faber	Winner
	Margaret Mahy	Memory		Highly commended
	Eileen Dunlop	The House on the Hill		Commended
	Monica Furlong	Wise Child		Commended
	Michael Morpurgo	King of the Cloud Forests		Commended
1988	Geraldine McCaughrean	A Pack of Lies	Oxford University Press	Winner	[17]
	Gillian Cross	A Map of Nowhere		Highly commended
	Peter Dickinson	Eva	Gollancz	Highly commended
	Elizabeth Laird	Red Sky in the Morning		Highly commended
	Vivien Alcock	The Monster Garden		Commended
	Judy Allen	Awaiting Developments		Commended
	Diana Wynne Jones	The Lives of Christopher Chant		Commended
1989	Anne Fine	Goggle-Eyes	Hamish Hamilton	Winner	[17]
	Anne Fine, illus. by Philippe Dupasquier	Bill's New Frock	Egmont	Highly commended
	Carole Lloyd	The Charlie Barber Treatment		Highly commended
	Vivien Alcock	The Trial of Anna Cotman		Commended

1990s

Medal winners and commended titles, 1990-1999^[6]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1990	Gillian Cross	Wolf	Oxford University Press	Winner	[17]
	Melvin Burgess	The Cry of the Wolf	Andersen Press	Highly commended
	Robert Westall	The Kingdom by the Sea		Highly commended
	Theresa Tomlinson	Riding the Waves		Commended
1991	Berlie Doherty	Dear Nobody	Hamish Hamilton	Winner
	Jacqueline Wilson, illus. by Nick Sharratt	The Story of Tracy Beaker	Doubleday	Highly commended
	Annie Dalton	Real Tilly Beany		Commended
	Garry Kilworth	The Drowners		Commended
1992	Anne Fine	Flour Babies	Hamish Hamilton	Winner
	Robert Westall	Gulf		Highly commended
	Peter Dickinson	A Bone from a Dry Sea		Commended
	Gillian Cross	The Great Elephant Chase		Commended
1993	Robert Swindells	Stone Cold	Hamish Hamilton	Winner
	Melvin Burgess	The Baby and Fly Pie		Highly commended
	Jenny Nimmo	The Stone Mouse		Highly commended
	Anne Merrick	Someone Came Knocking		Commended
1994	Theresa Breslin	Whispers in the Graveyard	Methuen Young Books	Winner
	Berlie Doherty	Willa And Old Miss Annie		Highly commended
	Lesley Howarth	Maphead		Highly commended
1995	Philip Pullman	Northern Lights[a]	Scholastic Point	Winner	[17]
	Jacqueline Wilson	Double Act		Highly commended
	Susan Gates	Raider		Commended
1996	Melvin Burgess	Junk[a]	Andersen Press	Winner	[17]
	Anne Fine	The Tulip Touch		Highly commended
	Terry Pratchett	Johnny and the Bomb		Commended
1997	Tim Bowler	River Boy	Oxford University Press	Winner
	Henrietta Branford	Fire, Bed, and Bone		Highly commended
	J. K. Rowling	Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone		Commended
1998	David Almond	Skellig[a]	Hodder Children's Books	Winner	[17]
1999	Aidan Chambers	Postcards from No Man's Land	The Bodley Head	Winner

2000s

Beginning in 2003, commendations were not presented, only short and longlists; only the shortlists are presented below.

Medal honorees, 2000-2009^[6]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Age	Result	Ref.
2000	Beverley Naidoo	The Other Side of Truth	Puffin Books		Winner	[6][17]
	Adèle Geras	Troy			Highly commended	[6]
	Philip Pullman	The Amber Spyglass			Highly commended	[6]
	Melvin Burgess	The Ghost Behind The Wall			Commended	[6]
2001	Terry Pratchett	The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents	Doubleday		Winner	[6]
	Geraldine McCaughrean	Stop The Train			Highly commended	[6]
	Sharon Creech	Love That Dog			Commended	[6]
2002	Sharon Creech	Ruby Holler	HarperCollins		Winner	[6]
	Anne Fine	Up On Cloud Nine			Highly commended	[6]
2003	Jennifer Donnelly	A Gathering Light[a]	Bloomsbury	12+	Winner	[6]
	David Almond	The Fire-Eaters	Hooder	10+	Shortlist
	Mark Haddon	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	David Fickling	12+	Shortlist
	Elizabeth Laird	The Garbage King	Macmillan	10+	Shortlist
	Michael Morpurgo	Private Peaceful	Collins Publishers	10+	Shortlist
	Linda Newbery	Sisterland	David Fickling	13+	Shortlist
2004	Frank Cottrell-Boyce	Millions	Macmillan	9+	Winner	[6][17][19]
	Anne Cassidy	Looking for JJ	Scholastic	13+	Shortlist
	Gennifer Choldenko	Al Capone Does My Shirts	Bloomsbury	11+	Shortlist
	Sharon Creech	Heartbeat	Bloomsbury	10+	Shortlist
	Eva Ibbotson	The Star of Kazan	Macmillan	10+	Shortlist
	Philip Pullman	The Scarecrow and His Servant	Doubleday	8+	Shortlist
2005	Mal Peet	Tamar	Walker Books	14+	Winner	[6][17][20]
	David Almond	Clay	Hooder	11+	Shortlist	[36]
	Frank Cottrell-Boyce	Framed	Macmillan	9+	Shortlist	[36]
	Jan Mark	Turbulence	Hooder	12+	Shortlist	[36]
	Geraldine McCaughrean	The White Darkness	Oxford University Press	12+	Shortlist	[36]
2007[f]	Meg Rosoff	Just in Case	Penguin	14+	Winner	[17]
	Kevin Brooks	The Road of the Dead	The Chicken House	14+	Shortlist	[37]
	Siobhan Dowd	A Swift Pure Cry	David Fickling	13+	Shortlist	[37]
	Anne Fine	The Road of Bones	Doubleday	12+	Shortlist	[37]
	Ally Kennen	Beast	Marion Lloyd	12+	Shortlist	[37]
	Marcus Sedgwick	My Swordhand is Singing	Orion	10+	Shortlist	[37]
2008	Philip Reeve	Here Lies Arthur	Scholastic	12+	Winner	[17]
	Kevin Crossley-Holland	Gatty's Tale	Orion	10+	Shortlist	[38][39]
	Linzi Glass	Ruby Red	Penguin	12+	Shortlist	[38][39]
	Elizabeth Laird	Crusade	Macmillan	10+	Shortlist	[38][39]
	Tanya Landman	Apache: Girl Warrior	Walker	12+	Shortlist	[38][39]
	Meg Rosoff	What I Was	Penguin	12+	Shortlist	[38][39]
	Jenny Valentine	Finding Violet Park	HarperCollins	12+	Shortlist	[38][39]
2009	Siobhan Dowd	Bog Child	David Fickling	12+	Winner	[17][21]
	Kevin Brooks	Black Rabbit Summer	Puffin	14+	Shortlist	[40][41]
	Eoin Colfer	Airman	Puffin	9+	Shortlist	[40][41]
	Frank Cottrell-Boyce	Cosmic	Macmillan	8+	Shortlist	[40][41]
	Keith Gray	Ostrich Boys	Definitions	12+	Shortlist	[40][41]
	Patrick Ness	The Knife of Never Letting Go	Walker	14+	Shortlist	[40][41]
	Kate Thompson	Creature of the Night	Bodley Head	14+	Shortlist	[40][41]

2010s

Medal winners and Shortlists, 2010-2019

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Age	Result	Ref.
2010	Neil Gaiman, illus. by Dave McKean and Chris Riddell	The Graveyard Book	Bloomsbury	9+	Winner	[17][22]
	Laurie Halse Anderson	Chains	Bloomsbury	11+	Shortlist	[42][43]
	Helen Grant	The Vanishing of Katharina Linden	Penguin	14+	Shortlist	[42][43]
	Julie Hearn	Rowan the Strange	Oxford University Press	12+	Shortlist	[42][43]
	Patrick Ness	The Ask and the Answer	Walker	14+	Shortlist	[42][43]
	Terry Pratchett	Nation	Doubleday	11+	Shortlist	[42][43]
	Philip Reeve	Fever Crumb	Scholastic	9+	Shortlist	[42][43]
	Marcus Sedgwick	Revolver	Orion	12+	Shortlist	[42][43]
2011	Patrick Ness	Monsters of Men	Walker	14+	Winner	[17][23]
	Theresa Breslin	Prisoner of the Inquisition	Doubleday	12+	Shortlist	[44]
	Geraldine McCaughrean	The Death-Defying Pepper Roux	Oxford University Press	10+	Shortlist	[44]
	Meg Rosoff	The Bride's Farewell	Puffin	12+	Shortlist	[44]
	Marcus Sedgwick	White Crow	Orion	12+	Shortlist	[44]
	Jason Wallace	Out of Shadows	Andersen Press	14+	Shortlist	[44]
2012	Patrick Ness	A Monster Calls	Walker	9+	Winner	[17][24]
	David Almond	My Name is Mina	Hodder	9+	Shortlist	[45][46]
	Lissa Evans	Small Change for Stuart	Doubleday	8+	Shortlist	[45][46]
	Sonya Hartnett	The Midnight Zoo	Walker	9+	Shortlist	[45][46]
	Ali Lewis	Everybody Jam	Andersen Press	12+	Shortlist	[45][46]
	Andy Mulligan	Trash	David Fickling Books	12+	Shortlist	[45][46]
	Annabel Pitcher	My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece	Orion	10+	Shortlist	[45][46]
	Ruta Sepetys	Between Shades of Grey	Puffin	12+	Shortlist	[45][46]
2013	Sally Gardner	Maggot Moon	Hot Key Books	11+	Winner	[17][25]
	Sarah Crossan	The Weight of Water	Bloomsbury	9+	Shortlist	[47][48]
	Roddy Doyle	A Greyhound of a Girl	Marion Lloyd Books	9+	Shortlist	[47][48]
	Nick Lake	In Darkness	Bloomsbury	13+	Shortlist	[47][48]
	R. J. Palacio	Wonder	Bodley Head	10+	Shortlist	[47][48]
	Marcus Sedgwick	Midwinterblood	Indigo	11+	Shortlist	[47][48]
	Dave Shelton	A Boy and a Bear in a Boat	David Fickling Books	8+	Shortlist	[47][48]
	Elizabeth Wein	Code Name Verity	Electric Monkey	13+	Shortlist	[47][48]
2014	Kevin Brooks	The Bunker Diary[g]	Puffin	14+	Winner	[17][26][49]
	Julie Berry	All the Truth That's in Me	Templar	14+	Shortlist	[50][51]
	Rachel Campbell-Johnston	The Child's Elephant	David Fickling Books	11+	Shortlist	[50][51]
	Susan Cooper	Ghost Hawk	Bodley Head	11+	Shortlist	[50][51]
	Anne Fine	Blood Family	Doubleday	14+	Shortlist	[50][51]
	Katherine Rundell	Rooftoppers	Faber & Faber	11+	Shortlist	[50][51]
	Rebecca Stead	Liar & Spy	Andersen Press	9+	Shortlist	[50][51]
	William Sutcliffe	The Wall	Bloomsbury	11+	Shortlist	[50][51]
2015	Tanya Landman	Buffalo Soldier	Walker	14+	Winner	[17][27]
	Brian Conaghan	When Mr Dog Bites	Bloomsbury	14+	Shortlist	[52][53]
	Sarah Crossan	Apple and Rain	Bloomsbury	11+	Shortlist	[52][53]
	Sally Gardner	Tinder	Orion	11+	Shortlist	[52][53]
	Frances Hardinge	Cuckoo Song	Macmillan	11+	Shortlist	[52][53]
	Elizabeth Laird	The Fastest Boy in the World	Macmillan	9+	Shortlist	[52][53]
	Geraldine McCaughrean	The Middle of Nowhere	Usborne	11+	Shortlist	[52][53]
	Patrick Ness	More Than This	Walker	14+	Shortlist	[52][53]
2016	Sarah Crossan	One	Bloomsbury		Winner	[28]
	Frances Hardinge	The Lie Tree	Macmillan		Shortlist	[54][55]
	Nick Lake	There Will Be Lies	Bloomsbury		Shortlist	[54][55]
	Patrick Ness	The Rest of Us Just Live Here	Walker		Shortlist	[54][55]
	Kate Saunders	Five Children on the Western Front	Faber & Faber		Shortlist	[54][55]
	Marcus Sedgwick	The Ghosts of Heaven	Indigo		Shortlist	[54][55]
	Robin Talley	Lies We Tell Ourselves	HarperCollins		Shortlist	[54][55]
	Jenny Valentine	Fire Colour One	HarperCollins		Shortlist	[54][55]
2017	Ruta Sepetys	Salt to the Sea	Puffin		Winner	[56][57]
	Frank Cottrell-Boyce	Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth	Pan Macmillan		Shortlist	[58][59]
	Zana Fraillon	The Bone Sparrow[h]	Orion Children's Books		Shortlist	[58][59]
	Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock	The Smell of Other People's Houses	Faber & Faber		Shortlist	[58][59]
	Glenda Millard	The Stars at Oktober Bend	Old Barn Books		Shortlist	[58][59]
	Mal Peet and Meg Rosoff	Beck	Walker		Shortlist	[58][59]
	Philip Reeve	Railhead	Oxford University Press		Shortlist	[58][59]
	Lauren Wolk	Wolf Hollow	Corgi		Shortlist	[58][59]
2018	Geraldine McCaughrean, illus. by Jane Milloy	Where the World Ends	Usborne		Winner	[60][61]
	Lissa Evans	Wed Wabbit	David Fickling Books		Shortlist	[62][63]
	Will Hill	After the Fire	Usborne		Shortlist	[62][63]
	Anthony McGowan	Rook	Barrington Stoke		Shortlist	[62][63]
	Patrick Ness	Release	Walker		Shortlist	[62][63]
	Marcus Sedgwick	Saint Death	Orion		Shortlist	[62][63]
	Angie Thomas	The Hate U Give[i]	Walker		Shortlist	[62][63]
	Lauren Wolk	Beyond the Bright Sea	Corgi		Shortlist	[62][63]
2019	Elizabeth Acevedo	The Poet X	Harper Teen		Winner	[29]
	Kwame Alexander, illus. by Dawud Anyabwile	Rebound	Andersen Press		Shortlist	[64][65]
	Sophie Anderson, illus. by Elisa Paganelli	The House with Chicken Legs	Usborne		Shortlist	[64][65]
	Candy Gourlay	Bone Talk	David Fickling Books		Shortlist	[64][65]
	Frances Hardinge	A Skinful of Shadows	Macmillan Children's Books		Shortlist	[64][65]
	Sally Nicholls	Things a Bright Girl Can Do	Andersen Press		Shortlist	[64][65]
	Jason Reynolds	Long Way Down	Faber Child		Shortlist	[64][65]
	Kate Saunders	The Land of Neverendings	Faber Child		Shortlist	[64][65]

2020s

Medal winners and Shortlists, 2020-2029

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2020	Anthony McGowan	Lark	Barrington Stoke	Winner	[66]
	Dean Atta, illus. by Anshika Khullar	The Black Flamingo	Hachette Children's Group	Shortlist	[67]
	Nick Lake	Nowhere on Earth	Hachette Children's Group	Shortlist	[67]
	Randy Ribay	Patron Saints of Nothing	Little Tiger	Shortlist	[67]
	Annet Schaap, trans. by Laura Watkinson	Lampie	Pushkin Children's Books	Shortlist	[67]
	Marcus Sedgwick and Julian Sedgwick, illus. by Alexis Deacon	Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black	Walker	Shortlist	[67]
	Angie Thomas	On the Come Up	Walker	Shortlist	[67]
	Chris Vick	Girl. Boy. Sea.	Head of Zeus	Shortlist	[67]
2021	Jason Reynolds	Look Both Ways	Knights Of	Winner	[30][68]
	Elizabeth Acevedo	Clap When You Land	Hot Key Books	Shortlist	[69][70]
	Sophie Anderson, illus. by Kathrin Honesta	The Girl Who Speaks Bear	Usborne	Shortlist	[69][70]
	Joseph Coelho, illus. by Kate Milner	The Girl Who Became A Tree	Otter-Barry Books	Shortlist	[69][70]
	Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick	On Midnight Beach	Faber & Faber	Shortlist	[69][70]
	Manjeet Mann	Run, Rebel	Penguin	Shortlist	[69][70]
	Ruta Sepetys	The Fountains of Silence	Penguin	Shortlist	[69][70]
	Lauren Wolk	Echo Mountain	Penguin	Shortlist	[69][70]
2022	Katya Balen, illus. by Angela Harding	October, October	Bloomsbury	Winner	[31]
	Sue Divin	Guard Your Heart	Pan Macmillan	Shortlist	[71][72]
	Phil Earle	When the Sky Falls	Andersen Press	Shortlist	[71][72]
	Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock	Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town	Faber & Faber	Shortlist	[71][72]
	Manjeet Mann	The Crossing	Penguin	Shortlist	[71][72]
	Julian Sedgwick, illus. by Chie Kutsuwada	Tsunami Girl	Guppy Publishing	Shortlist	[71][72]
	Alex Wheatle	Cane Warriors	Andersen Press	Shortlist	[71][72]
	Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam	Punching the Air	HarperCollins	Shortlist	[71][72]
2023	Manon Steffan Ros	The Blue Book of Nebo	Firefly Press	Winner	[73]
	Katya Balen	The Light in Everything	Bloomsbury Children’s Books	Shortlist	[74][75]
	Sita Brahmachari	When Shadows Fall	Little Tiger	Shortlist	[74][75]
	Jessie Burton	Medusa	Bloomsbury Children’s Books	Shortlist	[74][75]
	Louise Finch	The Eternal Return of Clara Hart	Little Island	Shortlist	[74][75]
	Patrice Lawrence	Needle	Barrington Stoke	Shortlist	[74][75]
	Ruta Sepetys	I Must Betray You	Hodder Children's Books	Shortlist	[74][75]
2024	Joseph Coelho, illus. by Kate Milner	The Boy Lost in the Maze	Otter-Barry Books	Winner	[15][76]
	Kwame Alexander	The Door of No Return	Andersen	Shortlist	[15][76]
	Zillah Bethell	The Song Walker	Usborne	Shortlist	[15][76]
	Sophie Cameron	Away with Words	Little Tiger	Shortlist	[15][76]
	Nicola Davies, illus. by Petr Horáček	Choose Love	Graffeg	Shortlist	[15][76]
	Tia Fisher	Crossing the Line	Bonnier	Shortlist	[15][76]
	Hiba Noor Khan	Safiyyah's War	Andersen	Shortlist	[15][76]
	Nathanael Lessore	Steady for This	Bonnier	Shortlist	[15][76]

Repeat honorees

Eight authors have won two Carnegie Medals, which was prohibited for many years.^{[citation needed]} Additionally, several authors have been shortlisted and/or commended multiple times.

The table below provides a list of authors who have been honoured, sorted first by number of honors and the rank of the honor (e.g., win is higher than commendation), then by the authors' last name. For the sake of ease, shortlists are considered of equal rank to commendations, though lower than high commendations. The table was last updated in March 2024.

Repeat honorees

Author	Wins	High commendations	Commendations	Shortlists
Anne Fine	2 (1989, 1992)	3 (1989, 1996, 2002)		2 (2007, 2014)
Robert Westall	2 (1975, 1981)	2 (1990, 1992)		1 (2007)[j]
Peter Dickinson	2 (1979, 1980)	1 (1988)	4 (1970, 1972, 1976, 1992)
Geraldine McCaughrean	2 (1988, 2018)	1 (2001)		3 (2005, 2011, 2015)
Jan Mark	2 (1976, 1983)	1 (1980)		1 (2005)
Berlie Doherty	2 (1986, 1991)	1 (1994)
Margaret Mahy	2 (1982, 1984)	1 (1987)
Patrick Ness	2 (2011, 2012)			5 (2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2018)
K. M. Peyton	1 (1969)	6 (1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969)
William Mayne	1 (1957)	5 (1955, 1956, 1957, 1970)[k]
Rosemary Sutcliff	1 (1959)	5 (1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1971)
Gillian Cross	1 (1990)	4 (1982, 1986, 1988, 1992)
Melvin Burgess	1 (1996)	3 (1990, 1993, 2000)		2 (1996, 2007)[l]
Philippa Pearce	1 (1958)	3 (1977, 1979, 1983)		1 (2007)[m]
Leon Garfield	1 (1970)	3 (1967, 1968, 1970)
Lucy M. Boston	1 (1961)	2 (1954, 1958)
Hester Burton	1 (1963)	2 (1960, 1962)
Philip Pullman	1 (1995)	1 (2000)		2 (2004, 2007)[n]
Sharon Creech	1 (2002)	1 (2001)		1 (2004)
Alan Garner	1 (1967)	1 (1965)		1 (2007)[o]
Mary Norton	1 (1952)	1 (1959)		1 (2007)[p]
Terry Pratchett	1 (2008)	1 (1996)		1 (2010)
Cynthia Harnett	1 (1951)	1 (1959)
C. S. Lewis	1 (1956)	1 (1954)
Noel Streatfeild	1 (1938)	1 (1936)
Robert Swindells	1 (1993)	1 (1984)
David Almond	1 (1998)			4 (2003, 2005, 2007, 2012)[q]
Frank Cottrell-Boyce	1 (2004)			3 (2005, 2009, 2017)
Ruta Sepetys	1 (2017)			3 (2012, 2021, 2023)
Kevin Brooks	1 (2014)			2 (2007, 2009)
Sarah Crossan	1 (2016)			2 (2013, 2015)
Kevin Crossley-Holland	1 (1985)			2 (1985, 2008)[r]
Philip Reeve	1 (2008)			2 (2010, 2017)
Meg Rosoff	1 (2007)			2 (2008, 2011)
Katya Balen	1 (2022)			1 (2023)
Theresa Breslin	1 (1994)			1 (2011)
Siobhan Dowd	1 (2009)			1 (2007)
Sally Gardner	1 (2013)			1 (2015)
Tanya Landman	1 (2015)			1 (2008)
Anthony McGowan	1 (2020)			1 (2018)
Mal Peet	1 (2005)			1 (2017)
Jason Reynolds	1 (2021)			1 (2019)
Helen Cresswell		4 (1969, 1971, 1973, 1967)
Gillian Avery		3 (1957, 1962, 1971)
Antonia Forest		3 (1957, 1961, 1963)
Diana Wynne Jones		3 (1975, 1977, 1988)
Barbara Leonie Picard		3 (1954, 1956, 1965)
Susan Cooper		2 (1973, 1975)		1 (2014)
Vivien Alcock		2 (1988, 1989)
Bernard Ashley		2 (1979, 1986)
Jenny Grace Fyson		2 (1964, 1965)
Rumer Godden		2 (1956, 1961)
Mary K. Harris		2 (1960, 1965)
Janni Howker		2 (1985, 1986)
Jo Manton		2 (1955, 1962)
James Reeves		2 (1954, 1961)
Ian Serraillier		2 (1956, 1960)
John Rowe Townsend		2 (1963, 1969)
John Verney		2 (1959, 1961)
Jacqueline Wilson		2 (1991, 1995)
Elizabeth Laird		1 (1988)		3 (2003, 2008, 2015)
Jane Gardam		1 (1981)	1 (1981)
Michael Morpurgo		1 (1987)		1 (2003)
Marcus Sedgwick				7 (2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2020)
Frances Hardinge				3 (2015, 2016, 2019)
Nick Lake				3 (2013, 2016, 2020)
Lauren Wolk				3 (2017, 2018, 2021)
Elizabeth Acevedo				2 (2019, 2021)
Sophie Anderson				2 (2019, 2021)
Lissa Evans				2 (2012, 2018)
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock				2 (2017, 2022)
Manjeet Mann				2 (2021, 2022)
Kate Saunders				2 (2016, 2019)
Angie Thomas				2 (2018, 2020)
Jenny Valentine				2 (2008, 2016)
Joseph Coelho				2 (2021, 2024)

Multiple award recipients

Six books have won both the Carnegie Medal and the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, which was inaugurated 1967.(Dates are years of U.K. publication, and Carnegie award dates before 2006.)

• Alan Garner, The Owl Service (1967)
• Richard Adams, Watership Down (1972)
• Geraldine McCaughrean, A Pack of Lies (1988)
• Anne Fine, Goggle-Eyes (1989)
• Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials 1: Northern Lights (1995)
• Melvin Burgess, Junk (1996)

Only A Monster Calls, written by Patrick Ness and illustrated by Jim Kay, has won both the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals (2012).

Only The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2009) has won both the Carnegie Medal and the equivalent American award, the Newbery Medal.^[77]

Sharon Creech, who won the Carnegie for Ruby Holler (2002), previously won the Newbery and two U.K. awards for Walk Two Moons (1994).^[78]

Four writers have won both the Carnegie and the US Michael L. Printz Award. The Printz Award is an American Library Association literary award that annually recognises the "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit". The four writers are David Almond, Aidan Chambers, Geraldine McCaughrean, and Meg Rosoff. Chambers alone has won both for the same book, the 1999 Carnegie and 2003 Printz for the novel Postcards from No Man's Land.^[7][79][80]

In its scope, books for children or young adults, the British Carnegie corresponds to the American Newbery and Printz awards.

See also

• Children's literature portal

• Kate Greenaway Medal
• Children's Laureate
• Blue Peter Book Awards
• Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
• Nestlé Smarties Book Prize
• Newbery Medal, the primary American Library Association annual children's book award
• Michael L. Printz Award, the primary ALA annual young adult book award

Notes

1. This book was named to the 70th Anniversary Top Ten in 2007.^[16]
2. The first two Medal-winning books were illustrated by their authors, as were four others to 1953 (six of the first sixteen winners), but none since then.
3. Although no medal was awarded, one book was "Highly commended", the first time this designation was used.
4. Dave McKean illustrated the UK Adult edition and the US edition of The Graveyard Book, while Chris Riddell illustrated the UK Children's edition, all published in October 2008. Riddell was shortlisted for the companion Kate Greenaway Medal, recognising the year's best illustration.
5. The special commendation to Harold Jones in 1955 for his 1954 illustration of Lavender's Blue was "a major reason" for the Library Association to establish the Kate Greenaway Medal that year; no 1955 work was judged worthy in 1956, so the Medal was actually inaugurated one year later.^[16]
6. Prior to 2007, the award year aligned with eligible books' year of publication; in 2007 and later years, the award year followed eligible books' year of publication.
7. The award to Brooks roused some controversy because of the bleak nature of the novel.^[49]
8. The Bone Sparrow received an Amnesty CILIP Honour commendation.^[56]
9. The Hate U Give received an Amnesty CILIP Honour commendation.^[60]
10. Westfall's The Machine Gunners was shortlisted for the 2007 Carnegie of Carnegie's award.
11. Two of Mayne's books were highly commended in 1956.
12. Burgess's Junk was shortlisted for the 2007 Carnegie of Carnegies.^[16]
13. Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden was selected for the 2007 Carnegie of Carnegie Top 10.^[16]
14. Pullman's Northern Lights was selected for the 2007 Carnegie of Carnegie's Top 10.^[16]
15. Westfall's The Machine Gunners was selected for the 2007 Carnegie of Carnegie's award.^[16]
16. Norton's The Borrowers was selected for the 2007 Carnegie of Carnegie's Top 10.^[16]
17. Almond's Skellig was shortlisted for the 2007 Carnegie of Carnegie's award.^[16]
18. Crossley-Holland's Storm was shortlisted for the 2007 Carnegie of Carnegie award.^[16]

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Citations

• Marcus Crouch and Alec Ellis, Chosen for children: an account of the books which have been awarded the Library Association Carnegie Medal, 1936–1975, Third edition, London: Library Association, 1977. ISBN 9780853653493. — The second, 1967 edition by Crouch covers the first three decades. The third edition by Crouch and Alec Ellis comprises the second, except a new introduction by Ellis, plus coverage of the fourth decade by Ellis.

External links

• Official website