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Shortlists for 2020 CILIP Carnegie and Medals

BGS Library has all the titles shortlisted on order, so you will be able to borrow these books when we return to school. We would like to run a Shadowing Group for next years awards, please let us know if you are interested in taking part!

Characters address the importance of friendships and family bonds in books across the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway 16-strong list. The continued popularity of verse is reflected across both Medals and the shortlist features three debut offerings alongside previous winner Levi Pinfold.

Access information about all the shortlisted titles via these links:

https://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/cilip-carnegie-medal-shortlist-2020/

https://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/cilip-greenaway-medal-shortlist-2020/

Shortlisted titles for the 2020

2020 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals

About the Awards:

The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are the UK’s oldest and best-loved children’s book awards, recognising outstanding reading experiences created through writing and in books for children and young people.

The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.

The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people.

Unique in that they are judged solely by librarians, the roll-call of past winners includes: Arthur Ransome, C.S. Lewis, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman, Noel Streatfeild, Sally Gardner and Elizabeth Acevedo for the Carnegie; and , , Janet Ahlberg, and Children’s Laureates , , and for the Kate Greenaway.

A national (and international) reading for pleasure initiative, the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards Shadowing scheme engages thousands of children and young people in reading the books on the shortlist via reading groups in schools and public libraries with dedicated educational reading resources and promotional materials to support each shortlist. Each year young people who take part in the scheme are invited to vote for their favourite books to win the Shadowers’ Choice Awards, which are announced alongside the Medal winners at the annual winners’ ceremony. The Medals are awarded annually by CILIP, the library and information association and the Youth Libraries Group with longlists announced in February, shortlists in March and the winners announced at a ceremony in June.

The Awards mission is: To inspire and empower the next generation to create a better world through books and reading. Lots of information about the shortlisted books, plus loads of activities, competitions and more can be found on the website https://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/ - do take a look!!!

On Thursday 19th March 2020, the eight-strong shortlists for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, the UK’s oldest book awards for children and young people, were revealed. Selected by volunteer Youth Librarians from longlists of 20 books per Medal, these titles reflect the very best in children’s writing and illustration published in the UK.

With books promoting environmentalism, acceptance, kindness and bravery, the Awards’ mission ‘to inspire and empower the next generation to shape a better world through books and reading’ is mirrored across this year’s list.

The 2020 shortlists are as follows:

2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal shortlist (alphabetical by author surname):

• The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta, illustrated by Anshika Khullar (Hachette Children's Group) • Nowhere on Earth by Nick Lake (Hachette Children's Group) • Lark by Anthony McGowan (Barrington Stoke) • Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay (Little Tiger) • Lampie written and illustrated by Annet Schaap and translated by Laura Watkinson (Pushkin Children's Books) • Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black by Marcus Sedgwick and Julian Sedgwick, illustrated by Alexis Deacon (Walker Books) • On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (Walker Books) • Girl. Boy. Sea. by Chris Vick (Head of Zeus)

2020 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist (alphabetical by illustrator surname):

• You're Snug with Me illustrated by Poonam Mistry and written by Chitra Soundar (Lantana Publishing) • The Iron Man illustrated by Chris Mould and written by (Faber & Faber) • The Suitcase written and illustrated by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros (Nosy Crow) • The Undefeated illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Kwame Alexander (Andersen Press) • The Dam illustrated by Levi Pinfold and written by (Walker Books) • Mary and Frankenstein illustrated by Júlia Sardà and written by Linda Bailey (Andersen Press) • Tales from the Inner City written and illustrated by (Walker Books) • Child of St Kilda written and illustrated by Beth Waters (Child's Play)

Julia Hale, Chair, CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals judging panel, commented:

“It’s a pleasure to present this dynamic and thought-provoking shortlist, which seems prescient of children and young people’s concerns today. Although each book is uniquely original, there are some commonalities that have emerged. Survival, the environment and the persisting inequalities and prejudices in our world today were themes that came through strongly. As a positive response to these challenges, the shortlists offer solace by displaying the awesome beauty of the natural world, human determination and courage, kindness and support which were frequent touchstones throughout these remarkable books.

We are so looking forward to sharing them with the shadowing groups across the UK and internationally as there is something here for every reader, to provoke much discussion and sheer reading enjoyment.”

The winners for both the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals 2020 will be announced on Wednesday 17th June 2020. The winners will each receive £500 worth of books to donate to their local library, a specially commissioned golden medal and a £5,000 Colin Mears Award cash prize.

Covid -19 Update - Winners’ announcement and Shadowers’ Choice Awards:

The Shadowers’ Choice Awards vote has been extended to take place in September to October to give children and young people more time to read the shortlisted books and discover their favourites. The Shadowers’ Choice will be announced on Friday 9th October during Libraries Week 2020.

The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal winners, selected by the Awards Judging panel, will be announced online on Wednesday 17th June 2020 with the winners celebrated alongside the Shadowers’ Choice at the celebration event on the 9th October.

The CILIP Carnegie Medal The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded annually to the writer of an outstanding book written in English for children and young people. Medal holders include Arthur Ransome, C.S. Lewis, , Terry Pratchett, Phillip Pullman and Sally Gardner. The Carnegie Medal was established in 1936, in memory of the great Scottish- born philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919). Carnegie was a self-made industrialist who made his fortune in steel in the USA. His experience of using a library as a child led him to resolve that "if ever wealth came to me that it should be used to establish free libraries." Carnegie set up more than 2800 libraries across the English speaking world and, by the time of his death, over half the library authorities in Great Britain had Carnegie libraries. In fact – Bradford’s very own Keighley Library was the first Carnegie Library in England, opened in 1904! First awarded to Arthur Ransome for 'Pigeon Post', the winner receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a library of their choice. Since 2016 the winner of the Carnegie Medal has also been awarded the £5,000 Colin Mears Award. The medal is awarded by CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.

The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal was established in 1955, for distinguished illustration in a book for children. It is named after the popular and highly influential nineteenth century artist known for her fine children's and designs. Awarded annually, the Medal is the only prize in the UK to solely reward outstanding illustration in a children's book. Previous winners include Levi Pinfold, Raymond Briggs, Shirley Hughes, former Children's Laureates Quentin Blake and Anthony Brown, and current Children's Laureate Chris Riddell. The winner receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to donate to a library of their choice. Since 2000, the winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal has also been awarded the £5,000 Colin Mears Award. Colin Mears, a Worthing based accountant and children's book collector, left a bequest providing every Greenaway winner with a cash award as well as the coveted Medal. The medal is awarded by CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.