The Carnegie Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book for children and young people. Established by The Library Association in 1936, in memory of the Scottish-born philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, who resolved that “if ever wealth came to me that it should be used to establish free libraries.” By the time of his death, Carnegie set up more than 2800 libraries. The medal is now awarded by CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. The winner receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a library of their choice.
Please note that the year refers to when the book was published rather than when the medal was awarded i.e. the 2005 winner was announced and the medal presented in July 2006.
2006 – ?
2005 – Tamar, Mal Peet
2004 – Millions, Frank Cottrell Boyce
2003 – A Gathering Light, Jennifer Donnelly
2002 – Ruby Holler, Sharon Creech
2001 – The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, Terry Pratchett
2000 – The Other Side of Truth, Beverly Naidoo
1999 – Postcards from No Man’s Land , Aidan Chambers
1998 – Skellig, David Almond
1997 – River Boy , Tim Bowler
1996 – Junk, Melvin Burgess
1995 – Northern Lights , Philip Pullman
1994 – Whispers in the Graveyard, Theresa Breslin
1993 – Stone Cold, Robert Swindells
1992 – Flour Babies, Anne Fine
1991 – Dear Nobody , Berlie Doherty
1990 – Wolf, Gillian Cross
1989 – Goggle-eyes, Anne Fine
1988 – A Pack of Lies, Geraldine McCaughrean
1987 – The Ghost Drum, Susan Price
1986 – Granny was a Buffer Girl, Berlie Doherty
1985 – Storm, Kevin Crossley-Holland
1984 – The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
1983 – Handles, Jan Mark
1982 – The Haunting, Margaret Mahy
1981 – The Scarecrows , Robert Westall
1980 – City of Gold, Peter Dickinson
1979 – Tulku, Peter Dickinson
1978 – The Exeter Blitz, David Rees
1977 – The Turbulent Term of Tykle Tiler, Gene Kemp
1976 – Thunder and Lightnings, Jan Mark
1975 – The Machine Gunners, Robert Westall
1974 – The Stronghold , Mollie Hunter
1973 – The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, Penelope Lively
1972 – Watership Down, Richard Adams
1971 – Josh, Ivan Southall
1970 – The God Beneath the Sea, Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen
1969 – The Edge of the Cloud, Kathleen Peyton
1968 – The Moon in the Cloud, Rosemary Harris
1967 – The Owl Service, Alan Garner
1966 – Prize withheld
1965 – The Garage at High Force, Philip Turner
1964 – Nordy Bank, Sheena Porter
*1963 – Time of Trial, Hester Burton
1962 – The Twelve and the Genii, Pauline Clarke
1961 – A Stranger at Green Knowe, Lucy M. Boston
1960 – The Making of Man, Dr. I. W. Cornwall
1959 – The Lantern Bearers, Rosemary Sutcliff
1958 – Tom’s Midnight Garden, Philipa Pearce
1957 – A Grass Rope, William Mayne
1956 – The Last Battle, C. S. Lewis
1955 – The Little Bookroom, Eleanor Farjeon
1954 – Knight Crusader, Ronald Welch
1953 – A Valley Grows Up, Edward Osmond
1952 – The Borrowers , Mary Norton
1951 – The Woolpack, Cynthia Harnett
1950 – The Lark on the Wing, Elfrida Vipont Foulds
1949 – The Story of Your Home, Agnes Allen
1948 – Sea Change, Richard Armstrong
1947 – Collected Stories for Children, Walter De La Mare
1946 – The Little White Horse, Elizabeth Goudge
1945 – Prize withheld
1944 – The Wind on the Moon, Eric Linklater
1943 – Prize withheld
1942 – The Little Grey Men, ‘BB’ (DJ Watkins-Pitchford)
1941 – We Couldn’t Leave Dinah, Mary Treadgold
1940 – Visitors from London, Kitty Barne
1939 – Radium Woman, Eleanor Doorly
1938 – The Circus is Coming, Noel Streatfield
1937 – The Family from One End Street, Eve Garnett
1936 – Pigeon Post, Arthur Ransome
