The Carnegie Medal in Literature was established in the UK in 1936 in honour of Andrew Carnegie. It is awarded to an outstanding book for children and young adult readers. Nominated books must be written in English and should first have been published in the UK during the previous year. The Carnegie judging panel consists of 13 children's librarians from the Youth Libraries Group of CILIP, and is thus similar to the American Newbery medal. CILIP also recognizes excellence in illustration, with the Kate Greenaway Medal, which is similar to the American Caldecott medal.

The award is announced in the July following the year of publication. The winner receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a public or school library.

The original rules 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.

List of winners

(note that years refer to the publication date of the books - the medal was awarded the following year)

• 2003 Jennifer Donnelly , A Gathering Light , Bloomsbury
• 2002 Sharon Creech , Ruby Holler, Bloomsbury
• 2001 Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Doubleday
• 2000 Beverley Naidoo , The Other Side of Truth, Puffin
• 1999 Aidan Chambers , Postcards From No Man's Land, Bodley Head
• 1998 David Almond , Skellig, Hodder
• 1997 Tim Bowler , River Boy, OUP
• 1996 Melvin Burgess , Junk, Andersen Press
• 1995 Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials: Book 1 Northern Lights, Scholastic
• 1994 Theresa Breslin , Whispers in the Graveyard, Methuen
• 1993 Robert Swindells , Stone Cold, H Hamilton
• 1992 Anne Fine, Flour Babies, H Hamilton
• 1991 Berlie Doherty , Dear Nobody, H Hamilton
• 1990 Gillian Cross , Wolf, OUP
• 1989 Anne Fine, Goggle-eyes, H Hamilton
• 1988 Geraldine McCaughrean , A Pack of Lies, OUP
• 1987 Susan Price , The Ghost Drum, Faber
• 1986 Berlie Doherty , Granny was a Buffer Girl, Methuen
• 1985 Kevin Crossley-Holland , Storm, Heinemann
• 1984 Margaret Mahy, The Changeover, Dent
• 1983 Jan Mark , Handles, Kestrel
• 1982 Margaret Mahy, The Haunting, Dent
• 1981 Robert Westall , The Scarecrows, Chatto & Windus
• 1980 Peter Dickinson, City of Gold, Gollancz
• 1979 Peter Dickinson, Tulku, Gollancz
• 1978 David Rees , The Exeter Blitz, H Hamilton
• 1977 Gene Kemp , The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, Faber
• 1976 Jan Mark , Thunder and Lightnings, Kestrel
• 1975 Robert Westall , The Machine Gunners, Macmillan
• 1974 Mollie Hunter , The Stronghold, H Hamilton
• 1973 Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, Heinemann
• 1972 Richard Adams, Watership Down, Rex Collings
• 1971 Ivan Southall , Josh, Angus & Robertson
• 1970 Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen , illustrated by Charles Keeping, The God Beneath the Sea, Longman
• 1969 Kathleen Peyton , The Edge of the Cloud, OUP
• 1968 Rosemary Harris , The Moon in the Cloud, Faber
• 1967 Alan Garner, The Owl Service, Collins
• 1966 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
• 1965 Philip Turner , The Grange at High Force, OUP
• 1964 Sheena Porter , Nordy Bank, OUP
• 1963 Hester Burton , Time of Trial, OUP
• 1962 Pauline Clarke , The Twelve and the Genii, Faber
• 1961 Lucy M. Boston , A Stranger at Green Knowe, Faber
• 1960 Dr I. W. Cornwall , The Making of Man, Phoenix House
• 1959 Rosemary Sutcliff, The Lantern Bearers, OUP
• 1958 Philipa Pearce , Tom's Midnight Garden, OUP
• 1957 William Mayne, A Grass Rope, OUP
• 1956 C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, Bodley Head
• 1955 Eleanor Farjeon, The Little Bookroom, OUP
• 1954 Ronald Welch (Felton Ronald Oliver), Knight Crusader, OUP
• 1953 Edward Osmond , A Valley Grows Up
• 1952 Mary Norton , The Borrowers, Dent
• 1951 Cynthia Harnett , The Woolpack, Methuen
• 1950 Elfrida Vipont Foulds , The Lark on the Wing, OUP
• 1949 Agnes Allen , The Story of Your Home, Faber
• 1948 Richard Armstrong , Sea Change, Dent
• 1947 Walter De La Mare, Collected Stories for Children
• 1946 Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse , University of London Press
• 1945 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
• 1944 Eric Linklater , The Wind on the Moon, Macmillan
• 1943 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
• 1942 'B.B.' (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford ), The Little Grey Men, Eyre & Spottiswoode
• 1941 Mary Treadgold , We Couldn't Leave Dinah, Cape
• 1940 Kitty Barne , Visitors from London, Dent
• 1939 Eleanor Doorly , Radium Woman, Heinemann
• 1938 Noel Streatfeild , The Circus is Coming, Dent
• 1937 Eve Garnett , The Family from One End Street, Muller
• 1936 Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post, Cape

See also

• Blue Peter Book Awards
• Children's Laureate
• Guardian Award
• Kate Greenaway Medal
• Nestle Smarties Book Prize

External links

• Carnegie Award homepage http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/index.html