The Carnegie Medal in Literature is an annual award for children's and young adult literature published in the United Kingdom. The award is administered by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and judged by a panel of librarians.
Unlike the Newbery Medal, it is not known to be a health risk to fictional canines.
See its official website here.
Carnegie Medal winning or shortlisted books that have pages on this wiki include:
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| 1936–1950 |
- 1936: Pigeon Post (Arthur Ransome)
- 1937: The Family from One End Street (Eve Garnett)
- 1938: The Circus Is Coming (Noel Streatfeild)
- 1939: The Radium Woman (Eleanor Doorly)
- 1940: Visitors from London (Kitty Barne)
- 1941: We Couldn't Leave Dinah (Mary Treadgold)
- 1942: The Little Grey Men (BB (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford))
- 1943: No Award
- 1944: The Wind on the Moon (Eric Linklater)
- 1945: No Award
- 1946: The Little White Horse (Elizabeth Goudge)
- 1947: Collected Stories for Children (Walter de la Mare)
- 1948: Sea Change (Richard Armstrong)
- 1949: The Story of Your Home (Agnes Allen)
- 1950: The Lark on the Wing (Elfrida Vipont)
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| 1951–1975 |
- 1951: The Wool-Pack (Cynthia Harnett)
- 1952: The Borrowers (Mary Norton)
- 1953: A Valley Grows Up (Edward Osmond)
- 1954: Knight Crusader (Ronald Welch (Felton Ronald Oliver))
- 1955: The Little Bookroom (Eleanor Farjeon)
- 1956: The Last Battle (C. S. Lewis)
- 1957: A Grass Rope (William Mayne)
- 1958: Tom's Midnight Garden (Philippa Pearce)
- 1959: The Lantern Bearers (Rosemary Sutcliff)
- 1960: The Making of Man (Ian Wolfran Cornwall)
- 1961: A Stranger at Green Knowe (Lucy M. Boston)
- 1962: The Twelve and the Genii (Pauline Clarke)
- 1963: Time of Trial (Hester Burton)
- 1964: Nordy Bank (Sheena Porter)
- 1965: The Grange at High Force (Philip Turner)
- 1966: No Award
- 1967: The Owl Service (Alan Garner)
- 1968: The Moon in the Cloud (Rosemary Harris)
- 1969: The Edge of the Cloud (K. M. Peyton)
- 1970: The God Beneath the Sea (Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen)
- 1971: Josh (Ivan Southall)
- 1972: Watership Down (Richard Adams)
- 1973: The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (Penelope Lively)
- 1974: The Stronghold (Mollie Hunter)
- 1975: The Machine Gunners (Robert Westall)
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| 1976–2000 |
- 1976: Thunder and Lightnings (Jan Mark)
- 1977: The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (Gene Kemp)
- 1978: The Exeter Blitz (David Rees)
- 1979: Tulku (Peter Dickinson)
- 1980: City of Gold and other stories from the Old Testament (Peter Dickinson)
- 1981: The Scarecrows (Robert Westall)
- 1982: The Haunting (Margaret Mahy)
- 1983: Handles (Jan Mark)
- 1984: The Changeover (Margaret Mahy)
- 1985: Storm (Kevin Crossley-Holland)
- 1986: Granny Was a Buffer Girl (Berlie Doherty)
- 1987: The Ghost Drum (Susan Price)
- 1988: A Pack of Lies (Geraldine McCaughrean)
- 1989: Goggle-Eyes (Anne Fine)
- 1990: Wolf (Gillian Cross)
- 1991: Dear Nobody (Berlie Doherty)
- 1992: Flour Babies (Anne Fine)
- 1993: Stone Cold (Robert Swindells)
- 1994: Whispers in the Graveyard (Theresa Breslin)
- 1995: Northern Lights (Philip Pullman)
- 1996: Junk (Melvin Burgess)
- 1997: River Boy (Tim Bowler)
- 1998: Skellig (David Almond)
- 1999: Postcards from No Man's Land (Aidan Chambers)
- 2000: The Other Side of Truth (Beverley Naidoo)
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| 2001–2025 |
- 2001: The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (Terry Pratchett)
- 2002: Ruby Holler (Sharon Creech)
- 2003: A Gathering Light (Jennifer Donnelly)
- 2004: Millions (Frank Cottrell Boyce)
- 2005: Tamar (Mal Peet)
- 2007: Just in Case (Meg Rosoff)
- 2008: Here Lies Arthur (Philip Reeve)
- 2009: Bog Child (Siobhan Dowd)
- 2010: The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
- 2011: Monsters of Men (Patrick Ness)
- 2012: A Monster Calls (Patrick Ness)
- 2013: Maggot Moon (Sally Gardner)
- 2014: The Bunker Diary (Kevin Brooks)
- 2015: Buffalo Soldier (Tanya Landman)
- 2016: One (Sarah Crossan)
- 2017: Salt to the Sea (Ruta Sepetys)
- 2018: Where the World Ends (Geraldine McCaughrean)
- 2019: The Poet X (Elizabeth Acevedo)
- 2020: Lark (Anthony McGowan)
- 2021: Look Both Ways (Jason Reynolds)
- 2022: October, October (Katya Balen)
- 2023: The Blue Book of Nebo (Manon Steffan Ros)
- 2024: The Boy Lost in the Maze (Joseph Coelho)
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The award date is the year of publication before 2006, the year of presentation after 2006. Thus, there is no entry for 2006. |