The Carnegie Medal

The [British] Library Association, Youth Libraries Group.

Established 1937. Presented annually to an outstanding book published in the United Kingdom. Initially limited to English writers whose books were published in England, but since 1969 any book written in English and published first, or concurrently, in the United Kingdom has been eligible. The date below reflects the date the book was published. The award is presented during the summer of the following year.

1997 - Tim Bowler, River Boy (Oxford University Press)

Highly commended
Henrietta Branford, Fire, Bed and Bone (Walker Books)
Commended
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Bloomsbury)
Complete Shortlist

1996 - Melvin Burgess, Junk (Andersen Press)

Highly commended
Anne Fine, The Tulip Touch (Hamish Hamilton)
Philip Pullman, Clockwork, or All Wound Up (Doubleday)
Complete Shortlist

1995 - Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (His dark materials: book 1) (US title: The Golden Compass)

1994 - Theresa Breslin, Whispers in the Graveyard

Highly commended
Lesley Howarth, MapHead
Berlie Doherty, Willa and Old Miss Annie

1993 - Robert Swindells, Stone Cold

1992 - Anne Fine, Flour Babies

1991 - Berlie Doherty, Dear Nobody

1990 - Gillian Cross, Wolf

1989 - Anne Fine, My War with Goggle Eyes

1988 - Geraldine McCaughrean, Pack of Lies

1987 - Susan Price, The Ghost Drum

1986 - Berlie Doherty, Granny Was a Buffer Girl

1985 - Kevin Crossley-Holland, Storm

1984 - Margaret Mahy, The Changeover

1983 - Jan Mark, Handles

1982 - Margaret Mahy, The Haunting

1981 - Robert Westall, The Scarecrows

1980 - Peter Dickinson, City of Gold

1979 - Peter Dickinson, Tulku

1978 - David Rees, The Exeter Blitz

1977 - Gene Kemp, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler

1976 - Jan Mark, Thunder and Lightnings

1975 - Robert Westall, The Machine-Gunners

1974 - Mollie Hunter, The Stronghold

1973 - Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

1972 - Richard Adams, Watership Down

1971 - Ivan Southall, Josh

1970 - Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen, The God Beneath the Sea

1969 - K. M. Peyton, The Edge of the Cloud

1968 - Rosemary Harris, The Moon in the Cloud

1967 - Alan Garner, The Owl Service

1966 - No award

1965 - Philip Turner, The Grange at High Force

1964 - Sheena Porter, Nordy Bank

1963 - Hester Burton, Time of Trial

1962 - Pauline Clarke, The Twelve and the Genii (US Title: The Return of the Twelve)

1961 - Lucy Boston, A Stranger at Green Knowe

1960 - I. W. Cornwall, The Making of Man

1959 - Rosemary Sutcliff, The Lantern Bearers

1958 - Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden

1957 - William Mayne, A Grass Rope

1956 - C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle

1955 - Eleanor Farjeon, The Little Bookroom

1954 - Ronald Welch, Knight Crusader

1953 - Edward Osmond, A Valley Grows Up

1952 - Mary Norton, The Borrowers

1951 - Cynthia Harnett, Nicholas and the Wool-Pack

1950 - Elfrida Vipont Foulds, The Lark on the Wing

1949 - Agnes Allen, The Story of Your Home

1948 - Richard Armstrong, Sea Change

1947 - Walter de la Mare, Collected Stories for Children

1946 - Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse

1945 - No award

1944 - Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon

1943 - No award

1942 - BB [Denys Watkins-Pitchford], The Little Grey Men

1941 - Mary Treadgold, We Couldn't Leave Dinah

1940 - Kitty Barne, Visitors from London

1939 - Eleanor Doorly, Radium Woman

1938 - Noel Streatfeild, The Circus Is Coming

1937 - Eve Garnett, The Family from One End Street

1936 - Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post

Monday, October 5, 1998
U.K. Book Awards from:
The Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/