CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's book awards

CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards

These medals from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) are awarded every year by a panel of children's librarians.

  • the Carnegie Medal is awarded for an outstanding book for children and young people and was first awarded in 1936
  • the Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people and was first awarded in 1955

To find out more about the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals, please visit their website.


From the Library catalogue

The following link will take you directly into the library catalogue. Once in the catalogue you will see a link in the Recommended Reading box to a list of previous winners for this award. If you wish to reserve an item in the catalogue you will need to first log in as a library member using your User ID and PIN.

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