Carnegie Medal in Literature - Winners

Winners

Through 2012 there have been 73 Medals awarded in 76 years (1936 to 2011 publications, approximately). No eligible book published in 1943, 1945, or 1966 was considered suitable.

Since 2007 the Medals are dated by the year of presentation; previously by the year of publication. The identification of distinct illustrators is incomplete.

Year Author Title Publisher
2012 Patrick Ness
illustrated by Jim Kay
A Monster Calls Walker Books
2011 Patrick Ness Monsters of Men Walker Books
2010 Neil Gaiman
two illustrators
The Graveyard Book Bloomsbury
2009 Siobhan Dowd Bog Child David Fickling
2008 Philip Reeve Here Lies Arthur Scholastic
2007 Meg Rosoff Just in Case Penguin
2006 The award date is the year of publication before 2006, the year of presentation after 2006.
2005 Mal Peet Tamar Walker Books
2004 Frank Cottrell Boyce Millions Macmillan
2003 Jennifer Donnelly A Gathering Light Bloomsbury
2002 Sharon Creech Ruby Holler Bloomsbury
2001 Terry Pratchett The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents Doubleday
2000 Beverley Naidoo The Other Side of Truth Puffin
1999 Aidan Chambers Postcards from No Man's Land Bodley Head
1998 David Almond Skellig Hodder & Stoughton
1997 Tim Bowler River Boy Oxford
1996 Melvin Burgess Junk Andersen Press
1995 Philip Pullman Northern Lights Scholastic
1994 Theresa Breslin Whispers in the Graveyard Methuen
1993 Robert Swindells Stone Cold H Hamilton
1992 Anne Fine Flour Babies H Hamilton
1991 Berlie Doherty Dear Nobody H Hamilton
1990 Gillian Cross Wolf Oxford
1989 Anne Fine Goggle-Eyes H Hamilton
1988 Geraldine McCaughrean A Pack of Lies Oxford
1987 Susan Price The Ghost Drum Faber
1986 Berlie Doherty Granny Was a Buffer Girl Methuen
1985 Kevin Crossley-Holland Storm Heinemann
1984 Margaret Mahy The Changeover J.M. Dent
1983 Jan Mark Handles Kestrel
1982 Margaret Mahy The Haunting J.M. Dent
1981 Robert Westall The Scarecrows Chatto & Windus
1980 Peter Dickinson
illus. Michael Foreman
City of Gold and other stories from the Old Testament Gollancz
1979 Peter Dickinson Tulku Gollancz
1978 David Rees The Exeter Blitz H Hamilton
1977 Gene Kemp The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler Faber
1976 Jan Mark Thunder and Lightnings Kestrel
1975 Robert Westall The Machine Gunners Macmillan
1974 Mollie Hunter The Stronghold H Hamilton
1973 Penelope Lively The Ghost of Thomas Kempe Heinemann
1972 Richard Adams Watership Down Rex Collings
1971 Ivan Southall Josh Angus & Robertson
1970 Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen
illustrated by Charles Keeping
The God Beneath the Sea Longman
1969 K. M. Peyton The Edge of the Cloud Oxford
1968 Rosemary Harris The Moon in the Cloud Faber
1967 Alan Garner The Owl Service Collins
1966 — Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1965 Philip Turner The Grange at High Force Oxford
1964 Sheena Porter Nordy Bank Oxford
1963 Hester Burton Time of Trial Oxford
1962 Pauline Clarke The Twelve and the Genii Faber
1961 Lucy M. Boston A Stranger at Green Knowe Faber
1960 Ian Wolfram Cornwall
illus. by M. Maitland-Howard
The Making of Man Phoenix House
1959 Rosemary Sutcliff The Lantern Bearers Oxford
1958 Philippa Pearce Tom's Midnight Garden Oxford
1957 William Mayne A Grass Rope Oxford
1956 C. S. Lewis The Last Battle Bodley Head
1955 Eleanor Farjeon The Little Bookroom Oxford
1954 Ronald Welch Knight Crusader Oxford
1953 Edward Osmond A Valley Grows Up Oxford
1952 Mary Norton The Borrowers J.M. Dent
1951 Cynthia Harnett The Wool-Pack Methuen
1950 Elfrida Vipont The Lark on the Wing Oxford
1949 Agnes Allen The Story of Your Home Faber
1948 Richard Armstrong Sea Change J.M. Dent
1947 Walter de la Mare Collected Stories for Children Faber
1946 Elizabeth Goudge The Little White Horse University of London
1945 — Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1944 Eric Linklater The Wind on the Moon Macmillan
1943 — Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1942 BB The Little Grey Men Eyre & Spottiswoode
1941 Mary Treadgold We Couldn't Leave Dinah Jonathan Cape
1940 Kitty Barne Visitors from London J.M. Dent
1939 Eleanor Doorly The Radium Woman Heinemann
1938 Noel Streatfeild The Circus Is Coming J.M. Dent
1937 Eve Garnett The Family from One End Street Frederick Muller
1936 Arthur Ransome Pigeon Post Jonathan Cape

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