The Carnegie Medal is a literary award established in 1936 in honour of Scottish

Scotland

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 philanthropist

Philanthropist

A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...

 Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century...

 and given annually to an outstanding book for children

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

 and young adults. It is awarded by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is a professional body representing librarians and other information professionals in the United Kingdom.-History:...

 (CILIP). CILIP also recognizes excellence in illustration

Illustration

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, with the Kate Greenaway Medal

Kate Greenaway Medal

The Kate Greenaway Medal was established in the United Kingdom in 1955 in honour of the children's illustrator, Kate Greenaway. The medal is given annually to an outstanding work of illustration in children's literature. It is awarded by Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals...

.

Nominated books must be written in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and should first have been published in the UK during the previous year. Until 1969 the award was limited to books by British authors first published in England. The first non-British author to receive the award was Ivan Southall

Ivan Southall

Ivan Francis Southall AM, DFC was an award-winning Australian writer of young-adult fiction and non-fiction. He was the first and still the only Australian to win the Carnegie Medal in Literature for children's literature. His books include Hills End, Ash Road, Josh, and Let the Balloon Go...

 in 1972. The original rules also stated that an author could only win the Medal once. This rule was later changed to enable subsequent work by the same author to be included for consideration. The first author to be awarded a second Carnegie Medal was Peter Dickinson

Peter Dickinson

Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE is an English author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career.-Life and work:...

 in 1981.

The Carnegie judging panel consists of 13 children's librarians from the Youth Libraries Group of CILIP. Nominated books are also read by students from many schools who send feedback to the judging panel. The award is announced in the June following the year of publication. The winner receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a public or school library.

List of winners

Note: Since 2007 the year relates to when the medal was awarded. Previously the year refers to the publication date of the books.

Year	Author	Book	Publisher
2011	Patrick Ness Patrick Ness Patrick Ness is an American author, journalist and lecturer who lives in London. He holds both American and British citizenship...	Monsters of Men Monsters of Men Monsters of Men is the third book in the Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness. It was first published in 2010 and is the winner of the 2011 Carnegie Medal.The title was inspired by previous statements in the first two books...	Walker Books
2010	Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...	The Graveyard Book The Graveyard Book The Graveyard Book is a children's fantasy novel by English author Neil Gaiman. The story is about a boy named Nobody Owens, who after his family is murdered is adopted and raised by the occupants of a graveyard...	Bloomsbury
2009	Siobhan Dowd Siobhan Dowd Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist.-Biography:Siobhan Dowd was born in London to Irish parents...	Bog Child Bog Child Bog Child is a historical novel by Siobhan Dowd. The book was released by David Fickling Books on September 9, 2008. It was listed as one of Amazon's Best Book of the Year for 2008 and one of Publishers Weekly's Best Book of the Year for the children's fiction category in 2008. It also won the 2009...	David Fickling Books
2008	Philip Reeve Philip Reeve Philip Reeve is a British author and illustrator. He presently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Samuel.-Biography:...	Here Lies Arthur Here Lies Arthur Here Lies Arthur is a young adult novel by Philip Reeve. It was first published in April 2007. The Arthur of the title is the King Arthur of legend...	Scholastic
2007	Meg Rosoff Meg Rosoff Meg Rosoff is an American author based in London since 1989. She is best known for her novel How I Live Now, which won 3 awards including the Guardian Award , Michael L. Printz Award , Branford Boase Award and was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread Awards. Her second novel, , won the prestigious ...	Just in Case Just in Case Just in Case is a young adult novel by Meg Rosoff, first published in 2006. The plot focuses on the adolescent protagonist David Case, who spends the majority of the book attempting to avoid fate. It received generally positive reviews....	Penguin
2005	Mal Peet Mal Peet Mal Peet is an English author who writes mainly for young adults. His novels have won several awards, including the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.- Biography :...	Tamar Tamar (novel) Tamar is a war novel for young adults by Mal Peet, published in 2005. Tamar won the Carnegie Medal in 2005 and a further award in 2007....	Walker Books
2004	Frank Cottrell Boyce Frank Cottrell Boyce -Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...	Millions Millions (novel) Millions is a children's novel by Frank Cottrell Boyce, published in 2004. It was originally written solely as a screenplay for the film Millions, but screenwriter Cottrell Boyce decided to adapt it into a novel while the film was in the process of being made. It was his first novel...	Macmillan
2003	Jennifer Donnelly Jennifer Donnelly Jennifer Donnelly is a historical fiction author best-known for her novel A Northern Light . She has also written The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and Revolution, as well as Humble Pie, a picture book for children...	A Gathering Light	Bloomsbury
2002	Sharon Creech Sharon Creech Sharon Creech is an American novelist of children's fiction.-Biography:Sharon Creech was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents , one sister , and three brothers...	Ruby Holler Ruby Holler Ruby Holler is a children's novel with elements of magic realism by American writer Sharon Creech. It won the 2002 Carnegie Medal.-Plot:...	Bloomsbury
2001	Terry Pratchett Terry Pratchett Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...	The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is the 28th novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, published in 2001. It was the first Discworld book to be aimed at the younger market; this was followed by The Wee Free Men in 2003...	Doubleday
2000	Beverley Naidoo Beverley Naidoo Beverley Naidoo is a popular South African children's author who has written a number of award-winning novels, mainly about life in South Africa, where she spent her childhood. She graduated from the University of York with a BA in Education in 1968....	The Other Side of Truth The Other Side of Truth The Other Side of Truth is a children's novel about Nigerian political refugees by Beverley Naidoo, published in 2000. A powerful story about justice and freedom of speech, it received several awards including the Carnegie Medal....	Puffin
1999	Aidan Chambers Aidan Chambers Aidan Chambers is an award-winning British writer of novels for children and young adults.- Life and work :Born near Chester-le-Street, County Durham in 1934, Chambers was an only child, and a poor scholar; considered "slow" by his teachers, he did not learn to read fluently until the age of nine...	Postcards from No Man's Land Postcards from No Man's Land Postcards from No Man's Land is a young adult novel by Aidan Chambers. The book follows the experiences of 17-year-old Jacob Todd as he visits Amsterdam during the commemmoration of the Battle of Arnhem, in which his grandfather fought....	Bodley Head
1998	David Almond David Almond David Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...	Skellig Skellig Skellig is a novel by David Almond, for which Almond was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1998 and also the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award. The book won the 2000 Michael L. Printz Honor from YALSA in the United States...	Hodder
1997	Tim Bowler Tim Bowler Tim Bowler is the author of twenty books for children, teenagers and young adults. He has won 15 awards, including the Carnegie Medal, the pre-eminent UK award for children's literature, for his novel River Boy....	River Boy River Boy River Boy is a young adult novel by Tim Bowler, published in 1997. It is the story of a teenage girl facing the prospect of bereavement. River Boy was awarded the 1997 Carnegie Medal, and the 1999 Angus Book Award.-Plot summary:...	OUP
1996	Melvin Burgess Melvin Burgess Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the...	Junk Junk (novel) Junk is a 1996 Carnegie Medal and Guardian Award-winning novel by Melvin Burgess. The book is about the experiences of a group of teenagers who fall into heroin addiction and who embrace anarchism on the streets of Bristol, England...	Andersen Press
1995	Philip Pullman Philip Pullman Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...	His Dark Materials His Dark Materials His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights , The Subtle Knife , and The Amber Spyglass...  1: Northern Lights Northern Lights (novel) Northern Lights, known as The Golden Compass in North America, is the first novel in English novelist Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy...	Scholastic
1994	Theresa Breslin Theresa Breslin Theresa Breslin is a Scottish author, primarily of young adult fiction. She began writing when working as a librarian, and has published 29 books, five of which have also been sold as audiobooks....	Whispers in the Graveyard Whispers in the Graveyard Whispers in the Graveyard is a children's novel by Theresa Breslin, published in 1994. It won the Carnegie Medal, and is described on the Carnegie winners website as "a gripping, powerful and haunting story"...	Methuen
1993	Robert Swindells Robert Swindells Robert E. "Bob" Swindells is an English author of children's and young adult literature.- Biography :Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Swindells worked for a newspaper after leaving school aged 15. He served with the Royal Air Force and held various jobs before training as a primary school teacher...	Stone Cold	H Hamilton
1992	Anne Fine Anne Fine Anne Fine, OBE FRSL is a British author best known for her children's books, of which she has written more than 50. She also writes for adults...	Flour Babies Flour Babies Flour Babies is a book written in 1992 by Anne Fine, aimed at older children, which won the Carnegie Medal.-Synopsis:The story centres around Simon Martin, a pupil in class 4C at an unnamed school. 4C is the class reserved for the school's worst students. As it so happens, a new student has...	H Hamilton
1991	Berlie Doherty Berlie Doherty Berlie Doherty is an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for her children's books, for which she has twice won the Carnegie Medal...	Dear Nobody Dear Nobody Dear Nobody is a young adult novel by Berlie Doherty, published in 1991. Set in the northern English city of Sheffield, Dear Nobody tells the story of an unplanned teenage pregnancy and the effect it has on the teenagers and their families....	H Hamilton
1990	Gillian Cross Gillian Cross Gillian Cross is a children's author. She won the 1990 Carnegie Medal for her book Wolf and the 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award for her novel The Great Elephant Chase....	Wolf Wolf (novel) Wolf is a young adult novel by Gillian Cross. It was the winner of the Carnegie Medal for 1990.-Plot summary:Cassy, who lives with her grandmother, is awakened by mysterious footsteps one night. The next day, as always when the footsteps are heard, she is sent away to live with her lovely but...	OUP
1989	Anne Fine Anne Fine Anne Fine, OBE FRSL is a British author best known for her children's books, of which she has written more than 50. She also writes for adults...	Goggle-Eyes Goggle-Eyes Goggle-Eyes is a children's novel by Anne Fine, first published in 1989. The book won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. American editions are titled My War with Goggle-Eyes....	H Hamilton
1988	Geraldine McCaughrean Geraldine McCaughrean Geraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist.The youngest of three children, McCaughrean studied teaching but did not like it, and found her true vocation in writing. She claims that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world...	A Pack of Lies A Pack of Lies A Pack of Lies is a children's novel with metafictional elements by Geraldine McCaughrean, first published in 1988. The novel includes a collection of ten short stories of widely varying type and setting...	OUP
1987	Susan Price Susan Price Susan Price, born 1955 in Dudley in the West Midlands, is an award-winning English writer of novels for young adults. She also writes for younger children. She still lives in the Black Country.- Writing :...	The Ghost Drum The Ghost Drum The Ghost Drum is a children's fantasy novel by Susan Price, first published in 1987. It is an original fairy tale using elements from Russian history and folklore and, like many traditional tales, is full of cruelty, violence and sudden death. It is the first of the Ghost World Sequence, which...	Faber
1986	Berlie Doherty Berlie Doherty Berlie Doherty is an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for her children's books, for which she has twice won the Carnegie Medal...	Granny Was a Buffer Girl Granny Was a Buffer Girl Granny Was a Buffer Girl is a young adult novel by Berlie Doherty, published in 1986. The novel recounts stories of love, loyalty and change in several generations of a Sheffield family from the 1930s to the 1980s, linking them to the changing fortunes of the industrial city...	Methuen
1985	Kevin Crossley-Holland Kevin Crossley-Holland Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English translator, children's author and poet.-Life and career:Born in Mursley, north Buckinghamshire, Holland grew up in Whiteleaf, a small village in the Chilterns...	Storm Storm (novella) Storm is a children's book by Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Alan Marks. It won the Carnegie Medal for 1985.Published in the Banana Book series by Heinemann, this can be considered the first title for younger readers to win the Carnegie Medal...	Heinemann
1984	Margaret Mahy Margaret Mahy Margaret Mahy ONZ is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up.Her books The Haunting and The Changeover: A Supernatural...	The Changeover The Changeover The Changeover: a Supernatural Romance is a young adult novel by the New Zealand novelist Margaret Mahy, first published in 1984. It won the Carnegie Medal for that year.- Plot introduction :...	Dent
1983	Jan Mark Jan Mark Jan Mark was a British author, best known as a writer for children. She was christened Janet Marjorie Brisland in Welwyn Garden City in 1943 and was raised and educated in Kent. She was a secondary school teacher between 1965 and 1971, and became a full-time writer in 1974. She wrote over fifty...	Handles Handles (novel) Handles is a children's novel by Jan Mark which was published in 1983. It was awarded the Carnegie Medal for that year.-Title:"Handles" in this book are names with a special significance, a symbol of self-discovery or growing into oneself...	Kestrel
1982	Margaret Mahy Margaret Mahy Margaret Mahy ONZ is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up.Her books The Haunting and The Changeover: A Supernatural...	The Haunting The Haunting (novel) The Haunting is a children's fantasy novel by Margaret Mahy. It was first published in 1982 and won the Carnegie Medal for that year.-Plot introduction:...	Dent
1981	Robert Westall Robert Westall Robert Atkinson Westall was the author of many books, mostly children's fiction, though also for adults, and non-fiction. Many of his novels, while supposedly aimed at a teenage audience, deal with many complex, dark and in many ways adult themes...	The Scarecrows The Scarecrows The Scarecrows is a children's novel by Robert Westall, published in 1981. The novel was awarded the Carnegie Medal for 1981, the second Carnegie award for Robert Westall...	Chatto & Windus
1980	Peter Dickinson Peter Dickinson Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE is an English author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career.-Life and work:...	City of Gold City of Gold (novel) City of Gold and other stories from the Old Testament retold by Peter Dickinson is a collection of stories for children based on Old Testament narratives. The illustrations, both in colour and black-and-white, are by Michael Foreman...	Gollancz
1979	Peter Dickinson Peter Dickinson Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE is an English author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career.-Life and work:...	Tulku	Gollancz
1978	David Rees David Rees (author) David Bartlett Rees was a British author, lecturer and reviewer. Much of his work was written for children and young adults. His books included The Exeter Blitz, which won the Carnegie Medal for 1978.-Biography:...	The Exeter Blitz The Exeter Blitz The Exeter Blitz is a children's historical novel by David Rees, first published in 1978. It won the Carnegie Medal for that year. The novel is about the heavy air raid on the city of Exeter in Devon in May 1942, and its effect on the life of one family, the Lockwoods.-Plot summary:The novel opens...	H Hamilton
1977	Gene Kemp Gene Kemp Gene Kemp Nee Rushton is a British author best known for her children's books. Her first novel, The Pride of Tamworth Pig was published in 1972. She won The Other Award in 1977 and the UK Carnegie Medal in 1978 for The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler ...	The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler	Faber
1976	Jan Mark Jan Mark Jan Mark was a British author, best known as a writer for children. She was christened Janet Marjorie Brisland in Welwyn Garden City in 1943 and was raised and educated in Kent. She was a secondary school teacher between 1965 and 1971, and became a full-time writer in 1974. She wrote over fifty...	Thunder and Lightnings Thunder and Lightnings Thunder and Lightnings is a children's book, the first novel written by Jan Mark. It won the Penguin Guardian Award for a first children’s book and the Carnegie Medal for 1976...	Kestrel
1975	Robert Westall Robert Westall Robert Atkinson Westall was the author of many books, mostly children's fiction, though also for adults, and non-fiction. Many of his novels, while supposedly aimed at a teenage audience, deal with many complex, dark and in many ways adult themes...	The Machine Gunners The Machine Gunners The Machine Gunners is a children's historical novel by Robert Westall published in 1975. It was awarded the Carnegie Medal for that year, and in 2007 was selected by judges of the Carnegie Medal as one of the ten most important children's novels of the past 70 years...	Macmillan
1974	Mollie Hunter Mollie Hunter Maureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith, more commonly known as Mollie Hunter , is a Scottish writer. Born and bred near Edinburgh in the small village of Longniddry. She currently resides in Inverness. Her debut was The Smartest Man in Ireland in 1963. She writes fantasy for children, historical stories...	The Stronghold The Stronghold The Stronghold is a children's historical novel by Mollie Hunter, set in Orkney in the 1st century BC. It is an imaginative reconstruction of the circumstances leading to the building of the first of the brochs, the circular strongholds which dot the islands...	H Hamilton
1973	Penelope Lively Penelope Lively Penelope Lively CBE, FRSL is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. She has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize, winning once for Moon Tiger in 1987.-Personal:...	The Ghost of Thomas Kempe The Ghost of Thomas Kempe The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is a novel for children by Penelope Lively published in 1973. The novel won the Carnegie Medal in 1973.-Plot summary:...	Heinemann
1972	Richard Adams	Watership Down Watership Down Watership Down is a classic heroic fantasy novel, written by English author Richard Adams, about a small group of rabbits. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language , proverbs, poetry, and mythology...	Rex Collings
1971	Ivan Southall Ivan Southall Ivan Francis Southall AM, DFC was an award-winning Australian writer of young-adult fiction and non-fiction. He was the first and still the only Australian to win the Carnegie Medal in Literature for children's literature. His books include Hills End, Ash Road, Josh, and Let the Balloon Go...	Josh Josh (novel) Josh is a young adult novel by Ivan Southall, about a clash of cultures. It was the winner of the Carnegie Medal for 1971, the first Australian novel to win the award.-Plot summary:...	Angus & Robertson
1970	Leon Garfield Leon Garfield Leon Garfield was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for his historical novels for children, though he also wrote for adults...  & Edward Blishen Edward Blishen Edward Blishen was an English author. He is perhaps best known for three books: A Cack-Handed War , a story set in the backdrop of the Second World War, The God Beneath the Sea , a collaboration with Leon Garfield that won the Carnegie Medal and "Roaring Boys",an honest account of teaching in a... , illustrated by Charles Keeping Charles Keeping Charles William James Keeping was a British illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He first came to prominence with his illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he created more than twenty picture books...	The God Beneath the Sea The God Beneath the Sea The God Beneath the Sea is a children's novel based on Greek mythology, written by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen with illustrations by Charles Keeping. The God Beneath the Sea was awarded the 1970 Carnegie Medal, and was runner-up for the 1970 Kate Greenaway Medal...	Longman
1969	K. M. Peyton K. M. Peyton Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton, who writes as K.M. Peyton is a British author.Born in Birmingham, Peyton has written more than fifty novels, including the much loved Flambards and its sequels for which she won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award...	The Edge of the Cloud The Edge of the Cloud The Edge of the Cloud is the second novel in the Flambards sequence by K. M. Peyton. It is set in the years prior to the First World War and has a strong backdrop of aviation as it follows the romance of Christina Parsons and Will Russell...	OUP
1968	Rosemary Harris Rosemary Harris (writer) Rosemary Jeanne Harris is a British writer of fiction for children.Harris attended school in Weymouth, and then studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the Chelsea School of Art and the Courtauld Institute...	The Moon in the Cloud The Moon in the Cloud The Moon in the Cloud is a light-hearted children's historical fantasy by Rosemary Harris, first published in 1968. The novel is set in ancient Canaan and Egypt at the time of the Biblical Flood. It was awarded the Carnegie Medal for 1968, and was adapted for television in 1978...	Faber
1967	Alan Garner Alan Garner With his first book published, Garner abandoned his work as a labourer and gained a job as a freelance television reporter, living a "hand to mouth" lifestyle on a "shoestring" budget...	The Owl Service The Owl Service The Owl Service is a novel by Alan Garner first published in 1967. It is a contemporary interpretation, which Garner described as an "expression of the myth", of the story of the mythical Welsh figure of Blodeuwedd, whose story is told in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi.The legend concerns a...	Collins
1966	Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1965	Philip Turner Philip Turner Philip William Turner is an English author best known for his children's books about the fictional town of Darnley Mills and about the Reverend Septimus Treloar.-Life:...	The Grange at High Force The Grange at High Force The Grange at High Force is a children's novel by Philip Turner, published in 1965. It won the Carnegie Medal for that year. It is the second in the author's Darnley Mills series, set in a mill town in the north of England, between the moors and the sea...	OUP
1964	Sheena Porter Sheena Porter Sheena Porter is a British children's novelist. She received the 1964 Carnegie Medal for Nordy Bank.Sheena Porter has worked as a librarian in Leicester, Nottingham and Shropshire, and currently lives in Ludlow....	Nordy Bank Nordy Bank (novel) Nordy Bank is a children's novel by Sheena Porter, published in 1964. It was awarded the Carnegie Medal for that year.- Plot summary :Six children plan a camping trip in the Easter holidays, deciding on Brown Clee Hill as it is out of the way of summer visitors. They set up camp on the top of the...	OUP
1963	Hester Burton	Time of Trial	OUP
1962	Pauline Clarke Pauline Clarke Pauline Clarke is an English writer who has written for young children under the name Helen Clare, for older children as Pauline Clarke, and more recently for adults under her married name, Pauline Hunter Blair...	The Twelve and the Genii The Twelve and the Genii The Twelve and the Genii is a children's fantasy novel by Pauline Clarke, published in 1962. It was awarded the Carnegie Medal and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis. Its title in the U.S. is The Return of the Twelves...	Faber
1961	Lucy M. Boston Lucy M. Boston Lucy M. Boston was an English children's writer. She is best known for the six books in the Green Knowe series .-Biography:Boston was born in Southport in Lancashire in 1892 and died in 1990...	A Stranger at Green Knowe Green Knowe Green Knowe is a series of six books written by Lucy M. Boston, published between 1954 and 1976. They feature a very old house, Green Knowe, which is based on Boston's then-residence, The Manor in Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire. Some books in the series feature a boy called Toseland and his...	Faber
1960	Dr Ian Wolfram Cornwall	The Making of Man	Phoenix House
1959	Rosemary Sutcliff Rosemary Sutcliff Rosemary Sutcliff CBE was a British novelist, and writer for children, best known as a writer of historical fiction and children's literature. Although she was primarily a children's author, the quality and depth of her writing also appeals to adults; Sutcliff herself once commented that she wrote...	The Lantern Bearers The Lantern Bearers (Sutcliff novel) The Lantern Bearers is a historical adventure novel for children written by Rosemary Sutcliff and published in 1959, with illustrations by Charles Keeping...	OUP
1958	Philippa Pearce Philippa Pearce Ann Philippa Pearce OBE was an English children's author.-Early life:The youngest of four children, Pearce was brought up in the Mill House in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire...	Tom's Midnight Garden Tom's Midnight Garden Tom's Midnight Garden is a children's novel by Philippa Pearce. It won the Carnegie Medal in 1958, the year of its publication. It has been adapted for radio, television, the cinema, and the stage.-Plot summary:...	OUP
1957	William Mayne William Mayne William James Carter Mayne was an English writer of children's fiction. He was born in Hull, the son of a doctor and was educated at the choir school attached to Canterbury Cathedral and his memories of that time contributed to his early books. During the Second World War the school was evacuated...	A Grass Rope A Grass Rope A Grass Rope is a children's novel by William Mayne, set in the Yorkshire Dales. It was first published in 1957 and was awarded the Carnegie Medal for that year...	OUP
1956	C. S. Lewis C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...	The Last Battle The Last Battle The Last Battle is the seventh and final novel in The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. It won the prestigious Carnegie Medal in Literature in 1956.-Plot summary:In The Last Battle, Lewis brings The Chronicles of Narnia to an end...	Bodley Head
1955	Eleanor Farjeon Eleanor Farjeon Eleanor Farjeon was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Many of her works had charming illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also been published...	The Little Bookroom The Little Bookroom The Little Bookroom is a collection of twenty-seven stories by Eleanor Farjeon, most in the fairy tale style, chosen by the author to represent the best of her work over the previous thirty years. The collection was first published in 1955, and led to the author being awarded the Carnegie Medal for...	OUP
1954	Ronald Welch Ronald Welch Ronald Welch was the pseudonym of British writer Ronald Oliver Felton TD. He took the name from his wartime regiment. He was for many years Headmaster of Okehampton Grammar School in Devon....	Knight Crusader Knight Crusader Knight Crusader is a children's historical novel by Ronald Welch, first published in 1954. It is set primarily in the Crusader states of Outremer in the twelfth century and depicts the Battle of Hattin and the Third Crusade...	OUP
1953	Edward Osmond	A Valley Grows Up A Valley Grows Up A Valley Grows Up is a history book for children written and illustrated by Edward Osmond. It was first published in 1953. The book follows the changes in an imaginary English valley over the course of seven thousand years, from 5000 BC to 1900...	OUP
1952	Mary Norton Mary Norton (author) Mary Norton, née Pearson, was an English children's author. Her books include The Borrowers series.-Background:...	The Borrowers The Borrowers The Borrowers, published in 1952, is the first in a series of children's fantasy novels by English author Mary Norton. The novel and its sequels are about tiny people who live in people's homes and "borrow" things to survive while keeping their existence unknown...	Dent
1951	Cynthia Harnett Cynthia Harnett Cynthia Harnett was a highly acclaimed English writer of children's historical fiction.Known for her exceptional attention to detail and meticulous background research, combined with ingenious and engrossing plots, Harnett wrote only seven novels. The Wool-Pack won the Carnegie Medal in 1951...	The Wool-Pack The Wool-Pack The Wool-Pack is a children's historical novel by Cynthia Harnett. It was first published in 1951, and received the Carnegie Medal for the outstanding children's book of that year.A television adaptation of the novel was broadcast by the BBC in 1970....	Methuen
1950	Elfrida Vipont Elfrida Vipont Elfrida Vipont was the pen name of Elfrida Vipont Foulds , a British children's author. She was also a schoolteacher and a prominent member of the Society of Friends in England.-Parentage and education:...	The Lark on the Wing	OUP
1949	Agnes Allen	The Story of Your Home The Story of Your Home The Story of Your Home is a non-fiction book for children about British domestic life and architecture from cave dwellings to blocks of flats. It was written by Agnes Allen and illustrated by the author and her husband Jack...	Faber
1948	Richard Armstrong Richard Armstrong (author) Richard Armstrong was an English author who wrote for both adults and children. He was the winner of the Carnegie Medal in 1948 for his book Sea Change. He is also known for a biography of Grace Darling in which he challenges the conventional story: Grace Darling: Maid and Myth...	Sea Change Sea Change (Armstrong novel) Sea Change is a children's novel by Richard Armstrong. A contemporary seafaring adventure set on a cargo ship, it was the winner of the Carnegie Medal for 1948.- Plot introduction :...	Dent
1947	Walter de la Mare Walter de la Mare Walter John de la Mare , OM CH was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and the poem "The Listeners"....	Collected Stories for Children Collected Stories for Children Collected Stories for Children is a collection of seventeen short stories by Walter de la Mare, published in 1947. The book was awarded the Carnegie Medal for 1947, the first collection of stories to win the award, and the first time that previously published material had been considered.-The...	Faber
1946	Elizabeth Goudge Elizabeth Goudge Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was an English author of novels, short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge...	The Little White Horse The Little White Horse The Little White Horse is a children's fantasy novel by Elizabeth Goudge which won the 1946 Carnegie Medal for children's literature. The original edition was illustrated by C. Walter Hodges...	University of London Press
1945	Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1944	Eric Linklater Eric Linklater Eric Robert Russell Linklater was a British writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as short stories, travel writing and autobiography, and military history.-Life:...	The Wind on the Moon The Wind on the Moon The Wind on the Moon is a children's fantasy novel by Eric Linklater. It was first published in 1944, and received the Carnegie Medal for the outstanding children's book of that year.-Plot summary:Major Palfrey is off to war...	Macmillan
1943	Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1942	'B.B.' Denys Watkins-Pitchford Denys James Watkins-Pitchford MBE was a British naturalist, children's writer, and illustrator who wrote under the pseudonym "BB".-Early life:...	The Little Grey Men The Little Grey Men The Little Grey Men is a children's novel by Denys Watkins-Pitchford, written under the nom de plume “BB” and illustrated by the author. It was first published in 1942 and has been frequently republished. It tells the exploits of four gnomes, named after the flowers Baldmoney, Sneezewort, Dodder...	Eyre & Spottiswoode
1941	Mary Treadgold Mary Treadgold Mary Treadgold was a British author who won the Carnegie Medal in 1941 for her children's book We Couldn't Leave Dinah.Treadgold attended St Paul's Girls' School and Bedford College, London...	We Couldn't Leave Dinah We Couldn't Leave Dinah We Couldn't Leave Dinah is a children's novel by Mary Treadgold, published in 1941. It is a contemporary adventure story set on a fictional island in the English Channel during a German occupation...	Cape
1940	Kitty Barne Kitty Barne Marion Catherine "Kitty" Barne was a British screenwriter and writer of children's books, especially on music and musical themes....	Visitors from London Visitors from London Visitors from London is a children's novel by Kitty Barne, published in 1940. It deals with the then highly topical subject of evacuees. The novel was awarded the Carnegie Medal for 1940.-Plot summary:...	Dent
1939	Eleanor Doorly Eleanor Doorly Victoria Eleanor Louise Doorly was an award-winning British writer of children's books. She was born in Jamaica as the daughter of William Anton Doorly and Louise Brown, but moved to England upon the premature death of her father in 1887...	The Radium Woman The Radium Woman The Radium Woman is a biography of the scientist Marie Curie written for children by Eleanor Doorly. It was published in 1939 and was the first non-fiction book to be awarded the Carnegie Medal. Woodcuts by Robert Gibbings illustrated each chapter...	Heinemann
1938	Noel Streatfeild Noel Streatfeild Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE , known as Noel Streatfeild, was an author, most famous for her children's books including Ballet Shoes . Several of her novels have been adapted for film or television.-Biography:...	The Circus Is Coming	Dent
1937	Eve Garnett Eve Garnett Eve Garnett was an English author and illustrator. She was educated at two schools in Devon and at the Alice Ottley School in Worcester...	The Family from One End Street The Family from One End Street The Family From One End Street, written and illustrated by Eve Garnett, is an English children's book. Set in Otwell, a town resembling Lewes, it was published in 1937 by Frederick Muller. It won a Carnegie Medal for best children's book that same year, despite competition which included J. R. R....	Muller
1936	Arthur Ransome Arthur Ransome Arthur Michell Ransome was an English author and journalist, best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. These tell of school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; other common subjects...	Pigeon Post Pigeon Post Pigeon Post is the sixth book in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1936. It won the first Carnegie Medal awarded for children's literature....	Cape

Shortlists

Note: Since 2007 the year relates to when the medal was awarded. Previously the year refers to the publication date of the books.

• 2011
  • Theresa Breslin
    Theresa Breslin
    Theresa Breslin is a Scottish author, primarily of young adult fiction. She began writing when working as a librarian, and has published 29 books, five of which have also been sold as audiobooks....
    
    , Prisoner of the Inquisition, Doubleday
  • Geraldine McCaughrean
    Geraldine McCaughrean
    Geraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist.The youngest of three children, McCaughrean studied teaching but did not like it, and found her true vocation in writing. She claims that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world...
    
    , The Death-Defying Pepper Roux, Oxford
  • Patrick Ness
    Patrick Ness
    Patrick Ness is an American author, journalist and lecturer who lives in London. He holds both American and British citizenship...
    
    , Monsters of Men
    Monsters of Men
    Monsters of Men is the third book in the Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness. It was first published in 2010 and is the winner of the 2011 Carnegie Medal.The title was inspired by previous statements in the first two books...
    
    , Walker
  • Meg Rosoff
    Meg Rosoff
    Meg Rosoff is an American author based in London since 1989. She is best known for her novel How I Live Now, which won 3 awards including the Guardian Award , Michael L. Printz Award , Branford Boase Award and was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread Awards. Her second novel, , won the prestigious ...
    
    , The Bride’s Farewell, Puffin
  • Marcus Sedgwick
    Marcus Sedgwick
    Marcus Sedgwick was born in Kent, England. Marcus is a British author and illustrator as well as a musician. He used to play for two bands namely playing the drums for Garrett and as the guitarist in an ABBA tribute group...
    
    , White Crow, Orion
  • Jason Wallace
    Jason Wallace
    Jason Wallace is a web designer , living in South West London . He is the author of Out of Shadows, the 2010 Costa Children's Book of the Year .- Personal Life :...
    
    , Out of Shadows, Andersen Press

• 2010
  • Laurie Halse Anderson
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    Laurie Halse Anderson is an American author who writes for children and young adults.-Career:...
    
    , Chains, Bloomsbury
  • Neil Gaiman
    Neil Gaiman
    Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
    
    , The Graveyard Book
    The Graveyard Book
    The Graveyard Book is a children's fantasy novel by English author Neil Gaiman. The story is about a boy named Nobody Owens, who after his family is murdered is adopted and raised by the occupants of a graveyard...
    
    , Bloomsbury
  • Helen Grant, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, Penguin
  • Julie Hearn, Rowan the Strange, Oxford University Press
  • Patrick Ness
    Patrick Ness
    Patrick Ness is an American author, journalist and lecturer who lives in London. He holds both American and British citizenship...
    
    , The Ask and the Answer
    The Ask and the Answer
    The Ask And The Answer is the second installment in the Chaos Walking Trilogy written by Patrick Ness and published on May 4, 2009. The events follow immediately on from The Knife of Never Letting Go.-Plot summary:...
    
    , Walker
  • Terry Pratchett
    Terry Pratchett
    Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...
    
    , Nation
    Nation (novel)
    Nation is a Terry Pratchett novel, published in the UK on September 11, 2008. It is the first non-Discworld Pratchett novel since Johnny and the Bomb . Nation is in an alternate history of our world in the 1860s. The book received recognition as a Michael L...
    
    , Doubleday
  • Philip Reeve
    Philip Reeve
    Philip Reeve is a British author and illustrator. He presently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Samuel.-Biography:...
    
    , Fever Crumb
    Fever Crumb
    Fever Crumb is the prequel to the Mortal Engines Quartet by Philip Reeve, released in 2009. A sequel called A Web of Air was released in April 2010.-Plot synopsis:...
    
    , Scholastic
  • Marcus Sedgwick
    Marcus Sedgwick
    Marcus Sedgwick was born in Kent, England. Marcus is a British author and illustrator as well as a musician. He used to play for two bands namely playing the drums for Garrett and as the guitarist in an ABBA tribute group...
    
    , Revolver, Orion

• 2009
  • Frank Cottrell Boyce
    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    -Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...
    
    , Cosmic, Macmillan
  • Kevin Brooks
    Kevin Brooks (writer)
    Kevin M. Brooks is an English author best known for his novels Lucas and Martyn Pig .- Johnny Delgado Series:...
    
    , Black Rabbit Summer, Puffin
  • Eoin Colfer
    Eoin Colfer
    Eoin Colfer is an Irish author. He is most famous as the author of the Artemis Fowl series, but he has also written other successful books. His novels have been compared to the works of J. K. Rowling...
    
    , Airman
    Airman (novel)
    Airman, by Eoin Colfer, is a best-selling historical adventure novel set in the 19th century. It was released in the UK, Ireland and USA in January 2008. The novel was shortlisted for the 2009 Carnegie Medal....
    
    , Puffin
  • Siobhan Dowd
    Siobhan Dowd
    Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist.-Biography:Siobhan Dowd was born in London to Irish parents...
    
    , Bog Child
    Bog Child
    Bog Child is a historical novel by Siobhan Dowd. The book was released by David Fickling Books on September 9, 2008. It was listed as one of Amazon's Best Book of the Year for 2008 and one of Publishers Weekly's Best Book of the Year for the children's fiction category in 2008. It also won the 2009...
    
    , David Fickling Books
  • Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys, Definitions
  • Patrick Ness
    Patrick Ness
    Patrick Ness is an American author, journalist and lecturer who lives in London. He holds both American and British citizenship...
    
    , The Knife of Never Letting Go
    The Knife of Never Letting Go
    The Knife of Never Letting Go is the first installment in the Chaos Walking Trilogy written by Patrick Ness and published on May 5, 2008. It has won numerous awards, including the Booktrust Teenage Prize, the Guardian Award, and the 2008 James Tiptree, Jr...
    
    , Walker
  • Kate Thompson
    Kate Thompson (author)
    Kate Thompson is an award-winning writer for children and adults. Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, she has lived in Ireland, where many of her books are set, since 1981. She is the youngest child of the social historians and peace activists E. P. Thompson and Dorothy Towers...
    
    , Creature of the Night
    Creature of the Night (novel)
    Creature of the Night is a young adult novel by Kate Thompson. It was first published by Bodley Head on June 5, 2008. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize.-Plot summary:...
    
    , Bodley Head
• 2008
  • Kevin Crossley-Holland
    Kevin Crossley-Holland
    Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English translator, children's author and poet.-Life and career:Born in Mursley, north Buckinghamshire, Holland grew up in Whiteleaf, a small village in the Chilterns...
    
    , Gatty's Tale, Orion
  • Linzi Glass, Ruby Red, Penguin
  • Elizabeth Laird
    Elizabeth Laird
    Elizabeth Laird is an author of many books for children, including picture books and books for older children. Her novels include Red Sky in the Morning, Secrets of the Fearless and Kiss the Dust.-Biography:...
    
    , Crusade
    Crusade (Laird novel)
    Crusade is a novel written by Elizabeth Laird and first published by Macmillan in 2007. It is set in the Third Crusade and focuses on a Saracen boy named Salim and an English boy called Adam. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Children's Book Award....
    
    , Macmillan
  • Tanya Landman, Apache: Girl Warrior, Walker
  • Philip Reeve
    Philip Reeve
    Philip Reeve is a British author and illustrator. He presently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Samuel.-Biography:...
    
    , Here Lies Arthur
    Here Lies Arthur
    Here Lies Arthur is a young adult novel by Philip Reeve. It was first published in April 2007. The Arthur of the title is the King Arthur of legend...
    
    , Scholastic
  • Meg Rosoff
    Meg Rosoff
    Meg Rosoff is an American author based in London since 1989. She is best known for her novel How I Live Now, which won 3 awards including the Guardian Award , Michael L. Printz Award , Branford Boase Award and was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread Awards. Her second novel, , won the prestigious ...
    
    , What I Was
    What I Was
    What I Was is Meg Rosoff's third novel for young adults. The book was published in 2007, and was shortlisted for both the Costa Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal.-Plot introduction:...
    
    , Penguin
  • Jenny Valentine
    Jenny Valentine
    Jenny Valentine is a British children's novelist, best known for her award-winning novel Finding Violet Park.-Book history:Her first novel, Finding Violet Park, was published in 2007. It won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The book's success caused...
    
    , Finding Violet Park
    Finding Violet Park
    Finding Violet Park is a young adult novel by Jenny Valentine, first published in 2007. It is about a fatherless teenage boy, Lucas Swain, who finds an urn containing the ashes of the titular Violet Park abandoned in a minicab office and determines to lay her to rest...
    
    , HarperCollins
• 2007
  • Kevin Brooks
    Kevin Brooks (writer)
    Kevin M. Brooks is an English author best known for his novels Lucas and Martyn Pig .- Johnny Delgado Series:...
    
    , The Road of the Dead
    The Road of the Dead
    The Road of the Dead is a 2006 novel by Kevin Brooks about teenage brothers living in London who travel to the moorland in search of their sister's killer. It is shortlisted for the 2007 Carnegie Medal...
    
    , The Chicken House
  • Siobhan Dowd
    Siobhan Dowd
    Siobhan Dowd was a British writer and activist.-Biography:Siobhan Dowd was born in London to Irish parents...
    
    , A Swift Pure Cry
    A Swift Pure Cry
    A Swift Pure Cry is a 2006 novel by Siobhan Dowd about a teenager named Shell who lives in County Cork, Ireland. It won the 2007 Branford Boase Award and the Eilís Dillon Award.-Characters:...
    
    , David Ficking Books
  • Anne Fine
    Anne Fine
    Anne Fine, OBE FRSL is a British author best known for her children's books, of which she has written more than 50. She also writes for adults...
    
    , The Road of Bones
    The Road of Bones
    The Road of Bones is a 2006 young adult novel written by Anne Fine. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Carnegie Medal. The judges described it as being "incredibly well-written" and having "political resonance for young people".-Setting:...
    
    , Doubleday
  • Ally Kennen
    Ally Kennen
    Ally Kennen is an award-winning British young adult and children's author.- Life :Ally Kennen grew up on a farm in Exmoor, England. Ally studied Archaeology and history at Birmingham University...
    
    , Beast
    Beast (novel)
    Beast is a young adult novel by Ally Kennen, published in 2006. It won the 2007 Manchester Book Award, and was shortlisted for the 2006 Booktrust Teenage Prize, the 2007 Carnegie Medal and the 2007 Branford Boase Award...
    
    , Marion Lloyd Books
  • Meg Rosoff
    Meg Rosoff
    Meg Rosoff is an American author based in London since 1989. She is best known for her novel How I Live Now, which won 3 awards including the Guardian Award , Michael L. Printz Award , Branford Boase Award and was shortlisted for the 2004 Whitbread Awards. Her second novel, , won the prestigious ...
    
    , Just in Case
    Just in Case
    Just in Case is a young adult novel by Meg Rosoff, first published in 2006. The plot focuses on the adolescent protagonist David Case, who spends the majority of the book attempting to avoid fate. It received generally positive reviews....
    
    , Penguin
  • Marcus Sedgwick
    Marcus Sedgwick
    Marcus Sedgwick was born in Kent, England. Marcus is a British author and illustrator as well as a musician. He used to play for two bands namely playing the drums for Garrett and as the guitarist in an ABBA tribute group...
    
    , My Swordhand is Singing
    My Swordhand Is Singing
    My Swordhand Is Singing is a novel written by Marcus Sedgwick, set in the early 17th century. It won the 2007 Booktrust Teenage Prize.The novel is inspired by the original vampire folklore of Eastern Europe. The novel follows the story of Peter, the son of drunkard woodcutter Tomas, and his life in...
    
    , Orion
• 2005
  • David Almond
    David Almond
    David Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...
    
    , Clay
    Clay (novel)
    Clay is a children's/young adult novel by David Almond, published in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.It was adapted for television in 2008, and aired on BBC One on March 30 2008....
    
    , Hodder Children's Books
  • Frank Cottrell Boyce
    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    -Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...
    
    , Framed
    Framed (novel)
    Framed is a children's novel by Frank Cottrell Boyce, published in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, as well as being longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize...
    
    , Macmillan Children's Books
  • Jan Mark
    Jan Mark
    Jan Mark was a British author, best known as a writer for children. She was christened Janet Marjorie Brisland in Welwyn Garden City in 1943 and was raised and educated in Kent. She was a secondary school teacher between 1965 and 1971, and became a full-time writer in 1974. She wrote over fifty...
    
    , Turbulence
    Turbulence (novel)
    Turbulence is a children's novel by Jan Mark, published in 2005. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.-Plot summary:Turbulence relates the story of Clay, a sixteen year old girl on the verge of taking her GCSEs...
    
    , Hodder Children's Books
  • Geraldine McCaughrean
    Geraldine McCaughrean
    Geraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist.The youngest of three children, McCaughrean studied teaching but did not like it, and found her true vocation in writing. She claims that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world...
    
    , The White Darkness
    The White Darkness
    The White Darkness is a novel by Geraldine McCaughrean, published in 2007 by HarperTeen. It won the 2008 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association....
    
    , Oxford University Press
  • Mal Peet
    Mal Peet
    Mal Peet is an English author who writes mainly for young adults. His novels have won several awards, including the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.- Biography :...
    
    , Tamar
    Tamar (novel)
    Tamar is a war novel for young adults by Mal Peet, published in 2005. Tamar won the Carnegie Medal in 2005 and a further award in 2007....
    
    , Walker Books
• 2004
  • Anne Cassidy, Looking for JJ
    Looking for JJ
    Looking for JJ is a novel by Anne Cassidy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Book Award and winner of the Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2004.-Plot introduction:...
    
    , Scholastic Children's Books
  • Gennifer Choldenko
    Gennifer Choldenko
    Gennifer Choldenko is a Newbery Honor-winning American writer of popular books for children and adolescents.-Early life:Gennifer Choldenko is a native of Santa Monica, California. She is the youngest of four siblings: two sisters and one brother...
    
    , Al Capone Does My Shirts
    Al Capone Does My Shirts
    Al Capone Does My Shirts is a 2004 young adult novel written by Southern California-based author Gennifer Choldenko. The book was named as a Newbery Honor selection and in 2007 it received the California Young Reader Medal.-Plot summary:...
    
    , Bloomsbury
  • Frank Cottrell Boyce
    Frank Cottrell Boyce
    -Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...
    
    , Millions
    Millions
    Millions is a 2004 British comedy-drama film, directed by Academy Award–winning director Danny Boyle, and starring Alex Etel, Lewis McGibbon, and James Nesbitt. The screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce adapted his novel while the film was in the process of being made...
    
    , Macmillan
  • Sharon Creech
    Sharon Creech
    Sharon Creech is an American novelist of children's fiction.-Biography:Sharon Creech was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents , one sister , and three brothers...
    
    , Heartbeat, Bloomsbury
  • Eva Ibbotson
    Eva Ibbotson
    Eva Ibbotson was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her award-winning children's books as well as her novels for adults - several of which have been successfully reissued for the young adult readership in recent years.-Personal life:Eva Ibbotson was born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner...
    
    , The Star of Kazan
    The Star of Kazan
    The Star of Kazan is a novel written by Eva Ibbotson. It is about a child called Annika who was left as a baby just days old in a church...
    
    , Macmillan
  • Philip Pullman
    Philip Pullman
    Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...
    
    , The Scarecrow and his Servant
    The Scarecrow and his Servant
    The Scarecrow and his Servant is a children's novel by Philip Pullman, first published in 2004. It tells the story of a scarecrow who comes alive after being struck by lightning and sets out on a quest with Jack, an orphan he hires as his servant...
    
    , Doubleday
• 2003
  • David Almond
    David Almond
    David Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...
    
    , The Fire Eaters, Hodder Children's Books
  • Jennifer Donnelly
    Jennifer Donnelly
    Jennifer Donnelly is a historical fiction author best-known for her novel A Northern Light . She has also written The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and Revolution, as well as Humble Pie, a picture book for children...
    
    , A Gathering Light, Bloomsbury
  • Mark Haddon
    Mark Haddon
    Mark Haddon is an English novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.- Life and work :...
    
    , The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 novel by British writer Mark Haddon. It won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book...
    
    , David Fickling Books
  • Elizabeth Laird
    Elizabeth Laird
    Elizabeth Laird is an author of many books for children, including picture books and books for older children. Her novels include Red Sky in the Morning, Secrets of the Fearless and Kiss the Dust.-Biography:...
    
    , The Garbage King
    The Garbage King
    The Garbage King is a fiction book for older children, written by Elizabeth Laird. Laird was inspired to write the book after living and working in Ethiopia, where she admired the children who lived on the streets of Addis Ababa for their ability to cope with the difficult conditions.-Plot...
    
    , Macmillan
  • Michael Morpurgo
    Michael Morpurgo
    Michael Morpurgo, OBE FKC AKC is an English author, poet, playwright and librettist, best known for his work in children's literature. He was the third Children's Laureate.-Early life:...
    
    , Private Peaceful
    Private Peaceful
    Private Peaceful is a novel for older children by Michael Morpurgo, first published in 2003. It is about a soldier called Thomas "Tommo" Peaceful, who is looking back on his life from the trenches of World War I. Structurally, each chapter of the book brings the reader closer to the present until...
    
    , Collins
  • Linda Newbery
    Linda Newbery
    Linda Newbery is a British author, who began writing as a young adult author but has now broadened her range to encompass all ages. Now a full-time writer, she published her first novel Run with the Hare in 1988, while still working as an English teacher in a comprehensive school.Linda is a regular...
    
    , Sisterland, David Fickling Books
• 2002
  • Kevin Brooks
    Kevin Brooks (writer)
    Kevin M. Brooks is an English author best known for his novels Lucas and Martyn Pig .- Johnny Delgado Series:...
    
    , Martyn Pig
    Martyn Pig
    Martyn Pig is a thriller by Kevin Brooks, published on April 1, 2002 by The Chicken House and aimed at teens and young adults. Martyn Pig won the Branford Boase Award in 2003 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2002.-Martyn Pig:...
    
    , The Chicken House
  • Sharon Creech
    Sharon Creech
    Sharon Creech is an American novelist of children's fiction.-Biography:Sharon Creech was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents , one sister , and three brothers...
    
    , Ruby Holler
    Ruby Holler
    Ruby Holler is a children's novel with elements of magic realism by American writer Sharon Creech. It won the 2002 Carnegie Medal.-Plot:...
    
    , Bloomsbury Children's Books
  • Anne Fine
    Anne Fine
    Anne Fine, OBE FRSL is a British author best known for her children's books, of which she has written more than 50. She also writes for adults...
    
    , Up On Cloud Nine, Corgi Books
  • Alan Gibbons
    Alan Gibbons
    Alan Gibbons is an author of children's books and a Blue Peter Book Award. He currently lives in Liverpool, England, where he used to teach in a primary school. His father was a farm laborer, but was hurt in an accident when Alan was eight years old. The family had to move to Crewe, Cheshire...
    
    , The Edge
    The Edge (novel)
    The Edge is a young adult novel by Alan Gibbons, published in 2002. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. It features a writer's device known as split narrative. There is a lot of action in the book and is written in the present tense.-Plot summary:...
    
    , Dolphin Paperbacks
  • Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor
    Across the Nightingale Floor
    Across the Nightingale Floor is the first of Lian Hearn's popular Tales of the Otori trilogy, first published in 2002. The main events cover a period of just over a year, from Tomasu's rescue by Shigeru, his adoption as Otori Takeo, their travel to Inuyama, their betrayal, and Takeo's submission...
    
    , Macmillan Children's Books
  • Linda Newbery
    Linda Newbery
    Linda Newbery is a British author, who began writing as a young adult author but has now broadened her range to encompass all ages. Now a full-time writer, she published her first novel Run with the Hare in 1988, while still working as an English teacher in a comprehensive school.Linda is a regular...
    
    , The Shell House
    The Shell House
    The Shell House is a historic home located at Glen Cove in Nassau County, New York. It was built as a guest cottage and home of the yacht captain on the Matinecock Point Estate of J. P. Morgan, Jr. . The house is composed of a small, Norman style core dated to the mid-19th century, with a large...
    
    , David Fickling Books
  • Marcus Sedgwick
    Marcus Sedgwick
    Marcus Sedgwick was born in Kent, England. Marcus is a British author and illustrator as well as a musician. He used to play for two bands namely playing the drums for Garrett and as the guitarist in an ABBA tribute group...
    
    , The Dark Horse, Dolphin Paperbacks
• 2001
  • Sharon Creech
    Sharon Creech
    Sharon Creech is an American novelist of children's fiction.-Biography:Sharon Creech was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents , one sister , and three brothers...
    
    , Love that Dog
    Love That Dog
    Love That Dog is a blank verse piece written by Sharon Creech and published by HarperCollins. It is written in diary format, in the perspective of a young boy who resists poetry assignments from his teacher. The author drew inspiration from Walter Dean Myers' poem, Love That Boy...
    
    , Bloomsbury Children's Books
  • Peter Dickinson
    Peter Dickinson
    Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE is an English author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career.-Life and work:...
    
    , The Ropemaker, Macmillan Children's Books
  • Eva Ibbotson
    Eva Ibbotson
    Eva Ibbotson was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her award-winning children's books as well as her novels for adults - several of which have been successfully reissued for the young adult readership in recent years.-Personal life:Eva Ibbotson was born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner...
    
    , Journey to the River Sea
    Journey to the River Sea
    Journey to the River Sea is an adventure novel written by Eva Ibbotson in an attempt to share her vision of the Amazon River. It is set mainly in Brazil early in the twentieth century and was first published in 2001.- Maia :...
    
    , Macmillan Children's Books
  • Elizabeth Laird
    Elizabeth Laird
    Elizabeth Laird is an author of many books for children, including picture books and books for older children. Her novels include Red Sky in the Morning, Secrets of the Fearless and Kiss the Dust.-Biography:...
    
    , Jake's Tower
    Jake's Tower
    Jake's Tower is a young adult novel written by Elizabeth Laird. It was first published in 2001. The book was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Children's Book Award.-Plot summary:...
    
    , Macmillan Children's Books
  • Geraldine McCaughrean
    Geraldine McCaughrean
    Geraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist.The youngest of three children, McCaughrean studied teaching but did not like it, and found her true vocation in writing. She claims that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world...
    
    , The Kite Rider
    The Kite Rider
    The Kite Rider is an award-winning children's novel written by Geraldine McCaughrean.The story, set in the ancient Chinese Song Dynasty , concerns a boy named Haoyou Gou. At the beginning of the book, Gou Pei is showing Haoyou around the Chabi, Pei's ship, before he sets off somewhere around the...
    
    , Oxford University Press
  • Geraldine McCaughrean
    Geraldine McCaughrean
    Geraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist.The youngest of three children, McCaughrean studied teaching but did not like it, and found her true vocation in writing. She claims that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world...
    
    , Stop the Train
    Stop the Train
    Stop the Train is a children's novel by Geraldine McCaughrean, published in 2001. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Stockton Children's Book of the Year.-Plot:...
    
    , Oxford University Press
  • Terry Pratchett
    Terry Pratchett
    Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...
    
    , The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
    The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
    The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents is the 28th novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, published in 2001. It was the first Discworld book to be aimed at the younger market; this was followed by The Wee Free Men in 2003...
    
    , Doubleday
• 2000
  • David Almond
    David Almond
    David Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...
    
    , Heaven Eyes
    Heaven Eyes
    Heaven Eyes is a fictional young adult novel by award-winning author David Almond. It was published in Great Britain by Hodder Children's Books in 2000 and by Delacorte Press in the United States in 2001...
    
    , Hodder Children's Books
  • Melvin Burgess
    Melvin Burgess
    Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the...
    
    , The Ghost Behind the Wall
    The Ghost Behind the Wall
    The Ghost Behind The Wall is a book by Melvin Burgess, a British children's fiction author. The book was copyrighted in 2000, and was first published in the U.S. in 2003 by Henry Holt and Co, LLC. It was originally published in Britain by Anderson Press Limited....
    
    , Andersen Press
  • Sharon Creech
    Sharon Creech
    Sharon Creech is an American novelist of children's fiction.-Biography:Sharon Creech was born in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, where she grew up with her parents , one sister , and three brothers...
    
    , The Wanderer
    The Wanderer (Sharon Creech novel)
    The Wanderer is a children's novel by Sharon Creech, published in 2000. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and named a Newbery Honor book. It is about a 13 year old orphan named Sophie who is the only girl amongst a crew of men on a journey to find her destiny in the sea and with her...
    
    , Macmillan Children's Books
  • Jamila Gavin
    Jamila Gavin
    Jamila Gavin is a British writer born in Mussoorie, India in the foothills of the Himalayas.Her father was Indian and her mother English...
    
    , Coram Boy
    Coram Boy
    Coram Boy is a very successful children's novel by Jamila Gavin. Published in 2000, it won Gavin a Whitbread Children's Book Award. The story follows a wide range of characters, from the rich Alexander Ashbrook to Toby, a young boy saved from an African slave ship, as their lives become closely...
    
    , Mammoth
  • Adéle Geras
    Adèle Geras
    Adèle Geras Adèle Geras Adèle Geras (born 1944, Jerusalem, is an English writer for young children, teens and adults. She has written more than 74 books, that have either been published or are in waiting...
    
    , Troy
    Troy (novel)
    Troy is a young adult novel by Adéle Geras, published in 2000. It is based on events in the Iliad, incorporating original stories set in the heart of the city towards the end of the Trojan War. The novel was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Award.-Plot...
    
    , Scholastic David Fickling Books
  • Alan Gibbons
    Alan Gibbons
    Alan Gibbons is an author of children's books and a Blue Peter Book Award. He currently lives in Liverpool, England, where he used to teach in a primary school. His father was a farm laborer, but was hurt in an accident when Alan was eight years old. The family had to move to Crewe, Cheshire...
    
    , Shadow of the Minotaur, Orion
  • Beverley Naidoo
    Beverley Naidoo
    Beverley Naidoo is a popular South African children's author who has written a number of award-winning novels, mainly about life in South Africa, where she spent her childhood. She graduated from the University of York with a BA in Education in 1968....
    
    , The Other Side of Truth
    The Other Side of Truth
    The Other Side of Truth is a children's novel about Nigerian political refugees by Beverley Naidoo, published in 2000. A powerful story about justice and freedom of speech, it received several awards including the Carnegie Medal....
    
    , Puffin Books
  • Philip Pullman
    Philip Pullman
    Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...
    
    , The Amber Spyglass
    The Amber Spyglass
    The Amber Spyglass is the third and final novel in the His Dark Materials series, written by English author Philip Pullman, and published in 2000....
    
    , Scholastic David Fickling Books
• 1999
  • David Almond
    David Almond
    David Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...
    
    , Kit's Wilderness
    Kit's Wilderness
    Kit's Wilderness is David Almond's second novel, published in 2000 by Delacorte Press. It won the 2001 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, the Smarties Award Silver Medal, was Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal, and was shortlisted for the Guardian Award.The...
    
    , Hodder Children's Books
  • Bernard Ashley
    Bernard Ashley (author)
    Bernard Ashley is a British author of children's books. Among his best-known works are The Trouble with Donovan Croft and A Kind of Wild Justice...
    
    , Little Soldier
    Little Soldier (novel)
    Little Soldier is a children's novel by Bernard Ashley, published in 1999. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.-Plot summary:...
    
    , Orchard Books
  • Aidan Chambers
    Aidan Chambers
    Aidan Chambers is an award-winning British writer of novels for children and young adults.- Life and work :Born near Chester-le-Street, County Durham in 1934, Chambers was an only child, and a poor scholar; considered "slow" by his teachers, he did not learn to read fluently until the age of nine...
    
    , Postcards from No Man's Land
    Postcards from No Man's Land
    Postcards from No Man's Land is a young adult novel by Aidan Chambers. The book follows the experiences of 17-year-old Jacob Todd as he visits Amsterdam during the commemmoration of the Battle of Arnhem, in which his grandfather fought....
    
    , Bodley Head Children's Books
  • Susan Cooper
    Susan Cooper
    Susan Mary Cooper is an English author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology, such as Arthurian and other Welsh elements with original material ; these books were adapted into a...
    
    , King of Shadows
    King of Shadows
    King of Shadows is a children's novel by Susan Cooper published in 1999 by Penguin. The book was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.Only in the world of the stage can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life...
    
    , Bodley Head Children's Books
  • Gillian Cross
    Gillian Cross
    Gillian Cross is a children's author. She won the 1990 Carnegie Medal for her book Wolf and the 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award for her novel The Great Elephant Chase....
    
    , Tightrope
    Tightrope (novel)
    Tightrope is a children's novel by Gillian Cross, published in 1999. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.It is about a teen girl named Ashley who receives A+'s in school and helps her sick mother through the day. However, she leads a double life. Her other name is Cindy and Cindy likes to...
    
    , Oxford University Press
  • Jenny Nimmo
    Jenny Nimmo
    Jenny Nimmo is a British author of numerous books for children, including many fantasy and adventure novels, beginning reader books, and picture books....
    
    , The Rinaldi Ring, Mammoth
  • J. K. Rowling
    J. K. Rowling
    Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE , better known as J. K. Rowling, is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series...
    
    , Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the third novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. The book was published on 8 July 1999. The novel won the 1999 Whitbread Book Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and was short-listed for other...
    
    , Bloomsbury Children's Books
  • Jacqueline Wilson
    Jacqueline Wilson
    Dame Jacqueline Wilson, DBE, FRSL is an award-winning English author, known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature. Her novels have been adapted numerous times for television, and commonly deal with such challenging themes as adoption, divorce and mental illness...
    
    , The Illustrated Mum
    The Illustrated Mum
    The Illustrated Mum is an acclaimed children's novel by English author Jacqueline Wilson, with drawings by Nick Sharratt. The title is a reference to The Illustrated Man, a 1951 novel by Ray Bradbury....
    
    , Doubleday
• 1998
  • David Almond
    David Almond
    David Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...
    
    , Skellig
    Skellig
    Skellig is a novel by David Almond, for which Almond was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1998 and also the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award. The book won the 2000 Michael L. Printz Honor from YALSA in the United States...
    
    
  • Robert Cormier
    Robert Cormier
    Robert Edmund Cormier was an American author, columnist and reporter, known for his deeply pessimistic, downbeat literature. His most popular works include I Am the Cheese, After the First Death, We All Fall Down and The Chocolate War, all of which have won awards. The Chocolate War was challenged...
    
    , Heroes
  • Peter Dickinson
    Peter Dickinson
    Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE is an English author and poet who has written a wide variety of books, notably children's books and detective stories, over a long and distinguished career.-Life and work:...
    
    , The Kin
    The Kin
    The Kin is an organization in the world of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time fantasy series.The Kin are a secret group of female channelers hiding from the White Tower. They offered a safe haven for others who had been put out of the Tower due to their failure to measure up to the Tower's standards...
    
    
  • Chris d'Lacey
    Chris D'Lacey
    Chris d'Lacey is an English writer of children's fiction.-Biography:Chris d'Lacey was born in Valetta, Malta, but as a child moved first to Leicester and then to Bolton...
    
    , Fly, Cherokee, Fly
  • Susan Price
    Susan Price
    Susan Price, born 1955 in Dudley in the West Midlands, is an award-winning English writer of novels for young adults. She also writes for younger children. She still lives in the Black Country.- Writing :...
    
    , The Sterkarm Handshake
    The Sterkarm Handshake
    The Sterkarm Handshake is a young adult science fiction novel by Susan Price which won the 1999 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. It deals with time travel between the 21st and 16th centuries and its effect on the Sterkarms, an ancient Scottish clan....
    
    
• 1997
  • Malorie Blackman
    Malorie Blackman
    Malorie Blackman OBE is an author of literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed Noughts & Crosses series uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism...
    
    , Pig Heart Boy
    Pig Heart Boy
    Pig Heart Boy is a children's novel by Malorie Blackman which was first published in 1997. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The novel was adapted into a television series, which was broadcast by the BBC in 1999.-Plot introduction:...
    
    
  • Henrietta Branford
    Henrietta Branford
    Henrietta Branford born in India, she was a fiction writer who wrote many novels including Fire, Bed and Bone...
    
    , Fire, Bed and Bone
  • Tim Bowler
    Tim Bowler
    Tim Bowler is the author of twenty books for children, teenagers and young adults. He has won 15 awards, including the Carnegie Medal, the pre-eminent UK award for children's literature, for his novel River Boy....
    
    , River Boy
    River Boy
    River Boy is a young adult novel by Tim Bowler, published in 1997. It is the story of a teenage girl facing the prospect of bereavement. River Boy was awarded the 1997 Carnegie Medal, and the 1999 Angus Book Award.-Plot summary:...
    
    
  • Geraldine McCaughrean
    Geraldine McCaughrean
    Geraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist.The youngest of three children, McCaughrean studied teaching but did not like it, and found her true vocation in writing. She claims that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world...
    
    , Forever X
  • Philip Ridley
    Philip Ridley
    Philip Ridley is a British artist working with various media.- Biography :Ridley was born in Bethnal Green, in the East End of London, where he still lives and works. He studied painting at St. Martin’s School of Art and his work has been exhibited throughout Europe and Japan...
    
    , Scribbleboy
  • J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling and featuring Harry Potter, a young wizard...
    
    
  • Theresa Tomlinson
    Theresa Tomlinson
    -Biography:As a child, she lived in Cleveland and North Yorkshire where her father was a vicar, but had little interest in writing stories. It was only as she began to tell stories to her three children that she began to enjoy writing. She especially likes writing historical fiction...
    
    , Meet me by the Steel Men
• 1996
  • Melvin Burgess
    Melvin Burgess
    Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the...
    
    , Junk
    Junk (novel)
    Junk is a 1996 Carnegie Medal and Guardian Award-winning novel by Melvin Burgess. The book is about the experiences of a group of teenagers who fall into heroin addiction and who embrace anarchism on the streets of Bristol, England...
    
    
  • Michael Coleman
    Michael Coleman (author)
    Michael Coleman is a British author of children's and young-adult fiction whose book, Weirdo's War, was shortlisted for the 1996 Carnegie Medal....
    
    , Weirdo's War
  • Anne Fine
    Anne Fine
    Anne Fine, OBE FRSL is a British author best known for her children's books, of which she has written more than 50. She also writes for adults...
    
    , The Tulip Touch
    The Tulip Touch
    The Tulip Touch is a children's novel by Anne Fine published in 1996.Natalie lives with her family: her father, who is a hotel manager, and her mother, who lavishes attention on her younger brother Julius. They go to live at a hotel called 'The Palace' and Natalie meets a strange girl called...
    
    
  • Elizabeth Laird
    Elizabeth Laird
    Elizabeth Laird is an author of many books for children, including picture books and books for older children. Her novels include Red Sky in the Morning, Secrets of the Fearless and Kiss the Dust.-Biography:...
    
    , Secret Friends
    Secret Friends
    Secret Friends is a 1991 British drama films directed by Dennis Potter and starring Alan Bates, Gina Bellman and Ian McNeice. It was based on the novel Ticket to Ride by Dennis Potter...
    
    
  • Terry Pratchett
    Terry Pratchett
    Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels...
    
    , Johnny and the Bomb
    Johnny and the Bomb
    Johnny and the Bomb is a 1996 novel by Terry Pratchett. It is the third novel to feature Johnny Maxwell and his friends, and deals with the rules and consequences of time travel...
    
    
  • Philip Pullman
    Philip Pullman
    Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...
    
    , Clockwork
    Clockwork (novel)
    Clockwork is an illustrated short children's novel by Philip Pullman, first published in the United Kingdom in 1996 by Doubleday. It was first published in the United States by Arthur A. Levine Books in 1998. The Doubleday edition was illustrated by Peter Bailey and the Arthur A. Levine Books...
    
    
  • Chloe Rayban, Love in Cyberia
  • Jacqueline Wilson
    Jacqueline Wilson
    Dame Jacqueline Wilson, DBE, FRSL is an award-winning English author, known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature. Her novels have been adapted numerous times for television, and commonly deal with such challenging themes as adoption, divorce and mental illness...
    
    , Bad Girls
    Bad Girls (1996 novel)
    Bad Girls is a children's novel by English author Jacqueline Wilson.-Plot summary:10-year-old Mandy White is mercilessly tormented at school by three classmates: Kim, Melanie and Sarah...
    
    
• 1995
  • Susan Gates, Raider
    Raider (novel)
    Raider is a children's novel by Susan Gates, published in 1995. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award....
    
    
  • Philip Pullman
    Philip Pullman
    Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...
    
    , His Dark Materials
    His Dark Materials
    His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights , The Subtle Knife , and The Amber Spyglass...
    
    : Book 1 Northern Lights
    Northern Lights (novel)
    Northern Lights, known as The Golden Compass in North America, is the first novel in English novelist Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy...
    
    
  • Jacqueline Wilson
    Jacqueline Wilson
    Dame Jacqueline Wilson, DBE, FRSL is an award-winning English author, known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature. Her novels have been adapted numerous times for television, and commonly deal with such challenging themes as adoption, divorce and mental illness...
    
    , Double Act
    Double Act (novel)
    Double Act is a 1995 children's novel by Jacqueline Wilson, written in the style of a diary, which follows the story of identical twins, Ruby and Garnet...
    
    
• 1994
  • Lynne Reid Banks
    Lynne Reid Banks
    Lynne Reid Banks is a British author of books for children and adults.She has written forty books, including the best-selling children's novel The Indian in the Cupboard, which has sold over 10 million copies and has been successfully adapted to film. Her first novel, The L-Shaped Room, published...
    
    , Broken Bridge
  • Theresa Breslin
    Theresa Breslin
    Theresa Breslin is a Scottish author, primarily of young adult fiction. She began writing when working as a librarian, and has published 29 books, five of which have also been sold as audiobooks....
    
    , Whispers in the Graveyard
    Whispers in the Graveyard
    Whispers in the Graveyard is a children's novel by Theresa Breslin, published in 1994. It won the Carnegie Medal, and is described on the Carnegie winners website as "a gripping, powerful and haunting story"...
    
    
  • Berlie Doherty
    Berlie Doherty
    Berlie Doherty is an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for her children's books, for which she has twice won the Carnegie Medal...
    
    , Willa and Old Miss Annie
  • Lesley Howarth, Maphead
  • Michael Morpurgo
    Michael Morpurgo
    Michael Morpurgo, OBE FKC AKC is an English author, poet, playwright and librettist, best known for his work in children's literature. He was the third Children's Laureate.-Early life:...
    
    , Arthur, High King of Britain
  • Jenny Nimmo
    Jenny Nimmo
    Jenny Nimmo is a British author of numerous books for children, including many fantasy and adventure novels, beginning reader books, and picture books....
    
    , Griffin's Castle
  • Robert Westall
    Robert Westall
    Robert Atkinson Westall was the author of many books, mostly children's fiction, though also for adults, and non-fiction. Many of his novels, while supposedly aimed at a teenage audience, deal with many complex, dark and in many ways adult themes...
    
    , A Time of Fire
  • Jacqueline Wilson
    Jacqueline Wilson
    Dame Jacqueline Wilson, DBE, FRSL is an award-winning English author, known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature. Her novels have been adapted numerous times for television, and commonly deal with such challenging themes as adoption, divorce and mental illness...
    
    , The Bed and Breakfast Star
    The Bed and Breakfast Star
    The Bed and Breakfast Star is a children's novel by British author Jacqueline Wilson.-Plot:Elsa is a bright and lively young girl who has dreams to become a comedienne. When her stepfather loses his job, her family, including her baby half-brother Hank and half-sister Pippa, are forced to move into...
    
    
• 1993
  • Melvin Burgess
    Melvin Burgess
    Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the...
    
    , The Baby and Fly Pie
  • Anne Merrick, Someone Came Knocking
  • Jenny Nimmo
    Jenny Nimmo
    Jenny Nimmo is a British author of numerous books for children, including many fantasy and adventure novels, beginning reader books, and picture books....
    
    , The Stone Mouse
  • Robert Swindells
    Robert Swindells
    Robert E. "Bob" Swindells is an English author of children's and young adult literature.- Biography :Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Swindells worked for a newspaper after leaving school aged 15. He served with the Royal Air Force and held various jobs before training as a primary school teacher...
    
    , Stone Cold

70th Anniversary Carnegie of Carnegies (2007)

For the 70th Anniversary of the Carnegie Medal CILIP ran an online poll to find the nation's favourite Carnegie Medal winning book of all time. The poll was launched on 20 April, and the winner - Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...

's Northern Lights

Northern Lights (novel)

Northern Lights, known as The Golden Compass in North America, is the first novel in English novelist Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy...

- was announced on 21 June at the British Library.

The shortlist of ten medal winning novels was as follows (the bracketed date refers to the year of first publication):

• David Almond
  David Almond
  David Almond is a British children's writer who has written several novels, each one to critical acclaim.-Early life:Almond was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia, he was born in 1951...
  
  , Skellig
  Skellig
  Skellig is a novel by David Almond, for which Almond was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1998 and also the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award. The book won the 2000 Michael L. Printz Honor from YALSA in the United States...
  
  , (1998)
• Melvin Burgess
  Melvin Burgess
  Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the...
  
  , Junk
  Junk (novel)
  Junk is a 1996 Carnegie Medal and Guardian Award-winning novel by Melvin Burgess. The book is about the experiences of a group of teenagers who fall into heroin addiction and who embrace anarchism on the streets of Bristol, England...
  
  , (1996)
• Kevin Crossley-Holland
  Kevin Crossley-Holland
  Kevin John William Crossley-Holland is an English translator, children's author and poet.-Life and career:Born in Mursley, north Buckinghamshire, Holland grew up in Whiteleaf, a small village in the Chilterns...
  
  , Storm
  Storm (novella)
  Storm is a children's book by Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Alan Marks. It won the Carnegie Medal for 1985.Published in the Banana Book series by Heinemann, this can be considered the first title for younger readers to win the Carnegie Medal...
  
  , (1985)
• Jennifer Donnelly
  Jennifer Donnelly
  Jennifer Donnelly is a historical fiction author best-known for her novel A Northern Light . She has also written The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and Revolution, as well as Humble Pie, a picture book for children...
  
  , A Gathering Light, (2003)
• Alan Garner
  Alan Garner
  With his first book published, Garner abandoned his work as a labourer and gained a job as a freelance television reporter, living a "hand to mouth" lifestyle on a "shoestring" budget...
  
  , The Owl Service
  The Owl Service
  The Owl Service is a novel by Alan Garner first published in 1967. It is a contemporary interpretation, which Garner described as an "expression of the myth", of the story of the mythical Welsh figure of Blodeuwedd, whose story is told in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi.The legend concerns a...
  
  , (1967)
• Eve Garnett
  Eve Garnett
  Eve Garnett was an English author and illustrator. She was educated at two schools in Devon and at the Alice Ottley School in Worcester...
  
  , The Family from One End Street
  The Family from One End Street
  The Family From One End Street, written and illustrated by Eve Garnett, is an English children's book. Set in Otwell, a town resembling Lewes, it was published in 1937 by Frederick Muller. It won a Carnegie Medal for best children's book that same year, despite competition which included J. R. R....
  
  , (1937)
• Mary Norton
  Mary Norton (author)
  Mary Norton, née Pearson, was an English children's author. Her books include The Borrowers series.-Background:...
  
  , The Borrowers
  The Borrowers
  The Borrowers, published in 1952, is the first in a series of children's fantasy novels by English author Mary Norton. The novel and its sequels are about tiny people who live in people's homes and "borrow" things to survive while keeping their existence unknown...
  
  , (1952)
• Philippa Pearce
  Philippa Pearce
  Ann Philippa Pearce OBE was an English children's author.-Early life:The youngest of four children, Pearce was brought up in the Mill House in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire...
  
  , Tom's Midnight Garden
  Tom's Midnight Garden
  Tom's Midnight Garden is a children's novel by Philippa Pearce. It won the Carnegie Medal in 1958, the year of its publication. It has been adapted for radio, television, the cinema, and the stage.-Plot summary:...
  
  , (1958)
• Philip Pullman
  Philip Pullman
  Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, and his fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ...
  
  , Northern Lights
  Northern Lights (novel)
  Northern Lights, known as The Golden Compass in North America, is the first novel in English novelist Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy...
  
  , (1995)
• Robert Westall
  Robert Westall
  Robert Atkinson Westall was the author of many books, mostly children's fiction, though also for adults, and non-fiction. Many of his novels, while supposedly aimed at a teenage audience, deal with many complex, dark and in many ways adult themes...
  
  , The Machine Gunners
  The Machine Gunners
  The Machine Gunners is a children's historical novel by Robert Westall published in 1975. It was awarded the Carnegie Medal for that year, and in 2007 was selected by judges of the Carnegie Medal as one of the ten most important children's novels of the past 70 years...
  
  , (1981)

See also

• Blue Peter Book Awards
  Blue Peter Book Awards
  The Blue Peter Book Awards are a series of literary prizes for children's literature awarded annually by the BBC television programme Blue Peter, and inaugurated in 2000....
  
  
• Children's Laureate
  Children's Laureate
  Children's Laureate is a position awarded in the UK once every two years to a distinguished writer or illustrator of children's books. A biannual bursary of £10,000 is offered...
  
  
• Guardian Award
  Guardian Award
  The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a prominent award for works of children's literature by British or Commonwealth authors, published in the United Kingdom during the preceding year. The award has been given annually since 1967, and is decided by a panel of authors and the...
  
  
• Kate Greenaway Medal
  Kate Greenaway Medal
  The Kate Greenaway Medal was established in the United Kingdom in 1955 in honour of the children's illustrator, Kate Greenaway. The medal is given annually to an outstanding work of illustration in children's literature. It is awarded by Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals...
  
  
• Nestlé Smarties Book Prize
  Nestlé Smarties Book Prize
  The Nestlé Children's Book Prize, also known as the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, was an annual award given to children's books written in the previous year by a UK citizen or resident. The prize was administered by Booktrust, an independent charity which promotes books and reading, and sponsored by...
  
  
• Newbery Medal
  Newbery Medal
  The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association . The award is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The award has been given since 1922. ...
  
  
• Caldecott Medal
  Caldecott Medal
  The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children , a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year. The award was named in honor of nineteenth-century English...