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Carnegie Medal

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The Carnegie Medal is awarded each year to one outstanding new book for children or young adults.

The Medal was named after the Scottish-born American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

The Carnegie Medal is the UK’s oldest and most prestigious book award for children’s writing.

No Award was given in 1943, 1945, or 1966. That is because no book was considered suitable.

Learn more: official Carnegie Medal homepage.


Winners:

Thunder and Lightnings (1976)

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Author(s): Jan Mark
Illustrator(s): Jim Russell


The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler (1977)

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Author(s): Gene Kemp
Illustrator(s): Carolyn Dinan


The Exeter Blitz (1978)

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Author(s): David Rees
Illustrator(s): Laszlo Acs


Tulku (1979)

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Author(s): Peter Dickinson
Illustrator(s): Tudor Humphries


City of Gold and other stories from the Old Testament (1980)

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Author(s): Peter Dickinson
Illustrator(s): Michael Foreman


The Scarecrows (1981)

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Author(s): Robert Westall
Illustrator(s): Ted Bernstein


The Haunting (1982)

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Author(s): Margaret Mahy
Illustrator(s): Michele Chessare


Handles (1983)

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Author(s): Jan Mark
Illustrator(s): David Parkins


The Changeover (1984)

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Author(s): Margaret Mahy
Illustrator(s): Bruce Hogarth


Storm (1985)

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Author(s): Kevin Crossley-Holland
Illustrator(s): Alan Marks


Granny Was a Buffer Girl (1986)

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Author(s): Berlie Doherty
Illustrator(s): Unknown


The Ghost Drum (1987)

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Author(s): Susan Price
Illustrator(s): Alan Baker


A Pack of Lies (1988)

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Author(s): Geraldine McCaughrean
Illustrator(s): Robina Green


Goggle-Eyes (1989)

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Author(s): Anne Fine
Illustrator(s): Kate Aldous


Wolf (1990)

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Author(s): Gillian Cross
Illustrator(s): Mike Allport


Dear Nobody (1991)

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Author(s): Berlie Doherty
Illustrator(s): Sophie Williams


Flour Babies (1992)

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Author(s): Anne Fine
Illustrator(s): Unknown


Stone Cold (1993)

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Author(s): Robert Swindells
Illustrator(s): Paul Hunt


Whispers in the Graveyard (1994)

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Author(s): Theresa Breslin
Illustrator(s): Marie Teresa Meloni


Northern Lights (1995)

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Author(s): Philip Pullman
Illustrator(s): Philip Pullman
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