Carnegie Medal Winning Books
2020 Anthony McGowan, Lark, Barrington Stoke 2019 Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X, Electric Monkey 2018 Geraldine McCaughrean, Where the World Ends, Usborne 2017 Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea, Puffin 2016 Sarah Crossan, One, Bloomsbury 2015 Tanya Landman, Buffalo Soldier, Walker Books 2014 Kevin Brooks, The Bunker Diary, Puffin Books 2013 Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon, Hot Key Books 2012 Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls, Walker Books 2011 Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men, Walker Books 2010 Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, Bloomsbury 2009 Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child, David Fickling Books 2008 Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur, Scholastic 2007 Meg Rosoff, Just in Case, Penguin 2005 Mal Peet, Tamar, Walker Books 2004 Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions, Macmillan 2003 Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light, Bloomsbury Children’s Books 2002 Sharon Creech, Ruby Holler, Bloomsbury Children’s Books 2001 Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Doubleday 2000 Beverly Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth, Puffin 1999 Aidan Chambers, Postcards from No Man’s Land, Bodley Head 1998 David Almond, Skellig, Hodder Children’s Books 1997 Tim Bowler, River Boy, OUP 1996 Melvin Burgess, Junk, Anderson Press 1995 Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials: Book 1 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, OUP 1989 Anne Fine, Goggle-eyes, H Hamilton 1988 Geraldine McCaughrean, A Pack of Lies, OUP 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, Dent 1983 Jan Mark, Handles, Kestrel 1982 Margaret Mahy, The Haunting, Dent 1981 Robert Westall, The Scarecrows, Chatto & Windus 1980 Peter Dickinson, City of Gold, Gollancz 1979 Peter Dickinson, Tulku, Gollancz 1978 David Rees, The Exeter Blitz, Hamish 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 & Edward Blishen, The God Beneath the Sea, Longman 1969 Kathleen Peyton, The Edge of the Cloud, OUP 1968 Rosemary Harris, The Moon in the Cloud, Faber 1967 Alan Garner, The Owl Service, Collins 1965 Philip Turner, The Grange at High Force, OUP 1964 Sheena Porter, Nordy Bank, OUP 1963 Hester Burton, Time of Trial, OUP 1962 Pauline Clarke, The Twelve and the Genii, Faber 1961 Lucy M Boston, A Stranger at Green Knowe, Faber 1960 Dr IW Cornwall, The Making of Man, Phoenix House 1959 Rosemary Sutcliff, The Lantern Bearers, OUP 1958 Philippa Pearce, Tom’s Midnight Garden, OUP 1957 William Mayne, A Grass Rope, OUP 1956 C S Lewis, The Last Battle, Bodley Head 1955 Eleanor Farjeon, The Little Bookroom, OUP 1954 Ronald Welch (aka Ronald Oliver Felton), Knight Crusader, OUP 1953 Edward Osmond, A Valley Grows Up, OUP 1952 Mary Norton, The Borrowers, Dent 1951 Cynthia Harnett, The Woolpack, Methuen 1950 Elfrida Vipont Foulds, The Lark on the Wing, OUP 1949 Agnes Allen, The Story of Your Home, Faber 1948 Richard Armstrong, Sea Change, Dent 1947 Walter De La Mare, Collected Stories for Children, Puffin 1946 Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse, University of London Press 1944 Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon, Macmillan 1942 ‘BB’ (D J Watkins-Pitchford), The Little Grey Men, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1941 Mary Treadgold, We Couldn’t Leave Dinah, Cape 1940 Kitty Barne, Visitors from London, Dent 1939 Eleanor Doorly, Radium Woman, Heinemann 1938 Noel Streatfeild, The Circus is Coming, Dent 1937 Eve Garnett, The Family from One End Street, Muller 1936 Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post, Cape
In 1943, 1945 and 1966 the prize was withheld as no book was considered suitable.