The Carnegie Medal |
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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)
1996 - Melvin Burgess, Junk (Andersen Press)
Highly commended
Anne Fine, The Tulip Touch (Hamish Hamilton)
Philip Pullman, Clockwork, or All Wound Up (Doubleday)
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
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