Full List of Carnegie Medal Winners
Publisher
Year Author
Book
2012 Patrick Ness
A Monster Calls
Walker Books
2011 Patrick Ness
Monsters of Men
Walker Books
2010 Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
2009 Siobhan Dowd
Bog Child
2008
2007
2005
2004
2003
2002
Here Lies Arthur
Just in Case
Tamar
Millions
A Gathering Light
Ruby Holler
The Amazing Maurice and
his Educated Rodents
The Other Side of Truth
Postcards from No Man's
Land
Skellig
River Boy
Junk
His Dark Materials: Book
1 Northern Lights
Whispers in the Graveyard
Stone Cold
Flour Babies
Dear Nobody
Wolf
Goggle-Eyes
A Pack of Lies
The Ghost Drum
Granny Was a Buffer Girl
Storm
The Changeover: A
Supernatural Romance
Handles
The Haunting
The Scarecrows
Bloomsbury
David Fickling
Books
Scholastic
Penguin
Walker Books
Macmillan
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury
Philip Reeve
Meg Rosoff
Mal Peet
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Jennifer Donnelly
Sharon Creech
2001 Terry Pratchett
2000 Beverley Naidoo
1999 Aidan Chambers
1998 David Almond
1997 Tim Bowler
1996 Melvin Burgess
1995 Philip Pullman
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
Theresa Breslin
Robert Swindells
Anne Fine
Berlie Doherty
Gillian Cross
Anne Fine
Geraldine McCaughrean
Susan Price
Berlie Doherty
Kevin Crossley-Holland
1984 Margaret Mahy
1983 Jan Mark
1982 Margaret Mahy
1981 Robert Westall
Doubleday
Puffin
Bodley Head
Children's Books
Hodder
OUP
Andersen Press
Scholastic
Methuen
H Hamilton
H Hamilton
H Hamilton
OUP
H Hamilton
OUP
Faber
Methuen
Heinemann
Dent
Kestrel
Dent
Chatto & Windus
1980 Peter Dickinson
1979 Peter Dickinson
1978 David Rees
1977 Gene Kemp
1976 Jan Mark
1975 Robert Westall
1974 Mollie Hunter
1973 Penelope Lively
City of Gold
Tulku
The Exeter Blitz
The Turbulent Term of
Tyke Tiler
Thunder and Lightnings
The Machine Gunners
The Stronghold
The Ghost of Thomas
Kempe
Watership Down
Josh
1972 Richard Adams
1971 Ivan Southall
Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen,
1970
The God Beneath the Sea
illustrated by Charles Keeping
1969 K. M. Peyton
The Edge of the Cloud
1968 Rosemary Harris
The Moon in the Cloud
1967 Alan Garner
The Owl Service
1966 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
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
A Stranger at Green
1961 Lucy M. Boston
Knowe
1960 Dr Ian Wolfram 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
The Wool-Pack
1950 Elfrida Vipont
The Lark on the Wing
1949 Agnes Allen
The Story of Your Home
1948 Richard Armstrong
Sea Change
Collected Stories for
1947 Walter de la Mare
Children
1946 Elizabeth Goudge
The Little White Horse
1945 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
Gollancz
Gollancz
H Hamilton
Faber
Kestrel
Macmillan
H Hamilton
Heinemann
Rex Collings
Angus & Robertson
Longman
OUP
Faber
Collins
OUP
OUP
OUP
Faber
Faber
Phoenix House
OUP
OUP
OUP
Bodley Head
OUP
OUP
Dent
Methuen
OUP
Faber
Dent
University of
London Press
1944 Eric Linklater
The Wind on the Moon
1943 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1942 'B.B.'
1941
1940
1939
1938
Mary Treadgold
Kitty Barne
Eleanor Doorly
Noel Streatfeild
1937 Eve Garnett
1936 Arthur Ransome
Macmillan
Eyre &
Spottiswoode
We Couldn't Leave Dinah Cape
Visitors from London
Dent
The Radium Woman
Heinemann
The Circus Is Coming
Dent
The Family from One End
Muller
Street
Pigeon Post
Cape
The Little Grey Men
Shortlists
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2011[4]
o Theresa Breslin, Prisoner of the Inquisition, Doubleday
o Geraldine McCaughrean, The Death-Defying Pepper Roux, Oxford
o Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men, Walker
o Meg Rosoff, The Bride’s Farewell, Puffin
o Marcus Sedgwick, White Crow, Orion
o Jason Wallace, Out of Shadows, Andersen Press
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2010[5]
o Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains, Bloomsbury
o Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, Bloomsbury
o Helen Grant, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, Penguin
o Julie Hearn, Rowan the Strange, Oxford University Press
o Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer, Walker
o Terry Pratchett, Nation, Doubleday
o Philip Reeve, Fever Crumb, Scholastic
o Marcus Sedgwick, Revolver, Orion
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2009[6]
o Frank Cottrell Boyce, Cosmic, Macmillan
o Kevin Brooks, Black Rabbit Summer, Puffin
o Eoin Colfer, Airman, Puffin
o Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child, David Fickling Books
o Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys, Definitions
o Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Walker
o Kate Thompson, Creature of the Night, Bodley Head
2008
o Kevin Crossley-Holland, Gatty's Tale, Orion
o Linzi Glass, Ruby Red, Penguin
o Elizabeth Laird, Crusade, Macmillan
o Tanya Landman, Apache: Girl Warrior, Walker
o Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur, Scholastic
o Meg Rosoff, What I Was, Penguin
o Jenny Valentine, Finding Violet Park, HarperCollins
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2007
o Kevin Brooks, The Road of the Dead, The Chicken House
o Siobhan Dowd, A Swift Pure Cry, David Ficking Books
o Anne Fine, The Road of Bones, Doubleday
o Ally Kennen, Beast, Marion Lloyd Books
o Meg Rosoff, Just in Case, Penguin
o Marcus Sedgwick, My Swordhand is Singing, Orion
2005
o David Almond, Clay, Hodder Children's Books
o Frank Cottrell Boyce, Framed, Macmillan Children's Books
o Jan Mark, Turbulence, Hodder Children's Books
o Geraldine McCaughrean, The White Darkness, Oxford University Press
o Mal Peet, Tamar, Walker Books
2004
o Anne Cassidy, Looking for JJ, Scholastic Children's Books
o Gennifer Choldenko, Al Capone Does My Shirts, Bloomsbury
o Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions, Macmillan
o Sharon Creech, Heartbeat, Bloomsbury
o Eva Ibbotson, The Star of Kazan, Macmillan
o Philip Pullman, The Scarecrow and his Servant, Doubleday
2003
o David Almond, The Fire Eaters, Hodder Children's Books
o Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light, Bloomsbury
o Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, David Fickling
Books
o Elizabeth Laird, The Garbage King, Macmillan
o Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful, Collins
o Linda Newbery, Sisterland, David Fickling Books
2002
o Kevin Brooks, Martyn Pig, The Chicken House
o Sharon Creech, Ruby Holler, Bloomsbury Children's Books
o Anne Fine, Up On Cloud Nine, Corgi Books
o Alan Gibbons, The Edge, Dolphin Paperbacks
o Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor, Macmillan Children's Books
o Linda Newbery, The Shell House, David Fickling Books
o Marcus Sedgwick, The Dark Horse, Dolphin Paperbacks
2001
o Sharon Creech, Love that Dog, Bloomsbury Children's Books
o Peter Dickinson, The Ropemaker, Macmillan Children's Books
o Eva Ibbotson, Journey to the River Sea, Macmillan Children's Books
o Elizabeth Laird, Jake's Tower, Macmillan Children's Books
o Geraldine McCaughrean, The Kite Rider, Oxford University Press
o Geraldine McCaughrean, Stop the Train, Oxford University Press
o Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Doubleday
2000
o David Almond, Heaven Eyes, Hodder Children's Books
o Melvin Burgess, The Ghost Behind the Wall, Andersen Press
o Sharon Creech, The Wanderer, Macmillan Children's Books
o Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy, Mammoth
o Adéle Geras, Troy, Scholastic David Fickling Books
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Alan Gibbons, Shadow of the Minotaur, Orion
Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth, Puffin Books
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, Scholastic David Fickling Books
1999
o David Almond, Kit's Wilderness, Hodder Children's Books
o Bernard Ashley, Little Soldier, Orchard Books
o Aidan Chambers, Postcards from No Man's Land, Bodley Head Children's Books
o Susan Cooper, King of Shadows, Bodley Head Children's Books
o Gillian Cross, Tightrope, Oxford University Press
o Jenny Nimmo, The Rinaldi Ring, Mammoth
o J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Bloomsbury Children's
Books
o Jacqueline Wilson, The Illustrated Mum, Doubleday
1998
o David Almond, Skellig
o Robert Cormier, Heroes
o Peter Dickinson, The Kin
o Chris d'Lacey, Fly, Cherokee, Fly
o Susan Price, The Sterkarm Handshake
1997
o Malorie Blackman, Pig Heart Boy
o Henrietta Branford, Fire, Bed and Bone
o Tim Bowler, River Boy
o Geraldine McCaughrean, Forever X
o Philip Ridley, Scribbleboy
o J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
o Theresa Tomlinson, Meet me by the Steel Men
1996
o Melvin Burgess, Junk
o Michael Coleman, Weirdo's War
o Anne Fine, The Tulip Touch
o Elizabeth Laird, Secret Friends
o Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Bomb
o Philip Pullman, Clockwork
o Chloe Rayban, Love in Cyberia
o Jacqueline Wilson, Bad Girls
1995
o Susan Gates, Raider
o Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials: Book 1 Northern Lights
o Jacqueline Wilson, Double Act
1994
o Lynne Reid Banks, Broken Bridge
o Theresa Breslin, Whispers in the Graveyard
o Berlie Doherty, Willa and Old Miss Annie
o Lesley Howarth, Maphead
o Michael Morpurgo, Arthur, High King of Britain
o Jenny Nimmo, Griffin's Castle
o Robert Westall, A Time of Fire
o Jacqueline Wilson, The Bed and Breakfast Star
1993
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Melvin Burgess, The Baby and Fly Pie
Anne Merrick, Someone Came Knocking
Jenny Nimmo, The Stone Mouse
Robert Swindells, Stone Cold
70th Anniversary Carnegie of Carnegies (2007)
For the 70th Anniversary of the Carnegie Medal CILIP ran an online poll to find the
nation's favourite Carnegie Medal winning book of all time. The poll was launched on
20 April, and the winner - Philip Pullman's Northern Lights - was announced on 21 June
at the British Library.
The shortlist of ten medal winning novels was as follows (the bracketed date refers to
the year of first publication):
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David Almond, Skellig, (1998)
Melvin Burgess, Junk, (1996)
Kevin Crossley-Holland, Storm, (1985)
Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light, (2003)
Alan Garner, The Owl Service, (1967)
Eve Garnett, The Family from One End Street, (1937)
Mary Norton, The Borrowers, (1952)
Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden, (1958)
Philip Pullman, Northern Lights, (1995)
Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners, (1981)