The Carnegie Medal is awarded annually to the writer of an outstanding book for children.
It was established by The Library Association (UK) in 1936, in memory of the great Scottish-born philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919). Carnegie was a self-made industrialist who made his fortune in steel in the USA. His experience of using a library as a child led him to resolve that "if ever wealth came to me that it should be used to establish free libraries."
Carnegie set up more than 2800 libraries across the English speaking world and, by the time of his death, over half the library authorities in Great Britain had Carnegie libraries. It was first awarded to Arthur Ransome for Pigeon Post. The medal is now awarded by CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, which is a new organisation formed by the Unification of the Institute of Information Scientists and The Library Association on 1 April 2002.
Established in 1936. Spoonsored by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
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2007 |
Just in Case By Meg Rosoff Penguin |
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2005 |
Tamar By Mal Peet Walker Books |
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2004 |
Millions By Frank Cottrell Boyce Macmillan |
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2003 |
A Gathering Light By Jennifer Donnelly Bloomsbury Children's Books |
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2002 |
Ruby Holler By Sharon Creech Bloomsbury Children's Books |
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2001 |
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents By Terry Pratchett Doubleday |
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2000 |
The Other Side of Truth By Beverley Naidoo Puffin |
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1999 |
Postcards From No Man's Land By Aidan Chambers Bodley Head |
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1998 |
Skellig By David Almond Hodder Children's Books |
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1997 |
River Boy By Tim Bowler OUP |
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1996 |
Junk By Melvin Burgess Andersen Press |
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1995 |
His Dark Materials: Book 1 Northern Lights By Philip Pullman Scholastic |
1993 Stone Cold Robert Swindells H Hamilton
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1992 |
Flour Babies By Anne Fine H Hamilton |
1990 Wolf Gillian Cross OUP
1989 Goggle-eyes Anne Fine H Hamilton
1988 A Pack of Lies Geraldine McCaughrean OUP
1987 The Ghost Drum Susan Price Faber
1986 Granny was a Buffer Girl Berlie Doherty Methuen
1985 Storm Kevin Crossley-Holland Heinemann
1984 The Changeover Margaret Mahy Dent
1983 Handles Jan Mark Kestrel
1982 The Haunting Margaret Mahy Dent
1981 The Scarecrows Robert Westall Chatto & Windus
1980 City of Gold Peter Dickinson Gollancz
1979 Tulku Peter Dickinson Gollancz
1978 The Exeter Blitz David Rees H Hamilton
1977 The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler Gene Kemp Faber
1976 Thunder and Lightnings Jan Mark Kestrel
1975 The Machine Gunners Robert Westall Macmillan
1974 The Stronghold Mollie Hunter H Hamilton
1973 The Ghost of Thomas Kempe Penelope Lively Heinemann
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1972 |
Watership Down By Richard Adams Rex Collings |
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1971 |
Josh By Ivan Southall Angus & Robertson |
1969 The Edge of the Cloud Kathleen Peyton OUP
1968 The Moon in the Cloud Rosemary Harris Faber
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1967 |
The Owl Service By Alan Garner Collins |
1965 The Grange at High Force Philip Turner OUP
1964 Nordy Bank Sheena Porter OUP
1963 Time of Trial Hester Burton OUP
1962 The Twelve and the Genii Pauline Clarke Faber
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1961 |
A Stranger at Green Knowe By Lucy M Boston Faber |
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1959 |
The Lantern Bearers By Rosemary Sutcliff OUP |
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1958 |
Tom's Midnight Garden By Philipa Pearce OUP |
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1956 |
The Last Battle By C S Lewis Bodley Head |
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1955 |
The Little Bookroom By Eleanor Farjeon OUP |
1953 A Valley Grows Up Edward Osmond
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1952 |
The Borrowers By Mary Norton Dent |
1950 The Lark on the Wing Elfrida Vipont Foulds OUP
1949 The Story of Your Home Agnes Allen Faber
1948 Sea Change Richard Armstrong Dent
1947 Collected Stories for Children Walter De La Mare
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1946 |
The Little White Horse By Elizabeth Goudge University of London Press |
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1944 |
The Wind on the Moon By Eric Linklater Macmillan |
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1942 |
The Little Grey Men By BB' (D J Watkins-Pitchford) Eyre & Spottiswoode |
1940 Visitors from London Kitty Barne Dent
1939 Radium Woman Eleanor Doorly Heinemann
1938 The Circus is Coming Noel Streatfield Dent
1937 The Family from One End Street Eve Garnett Muller
1936 Pigeon Post Arthur Ransome Cape
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