Carnegie and 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.
The Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people.

There are over 1,200 groups across the UK that shadow the awards. The shadowing scheme enables children to take part in the process, though it does not affect the decisions about the medals. All the Borough Libraries children's reading groups are shadowing the Kate Greenaway medal and some secondary school groups are shadowing both medals. They discuss and review the short listed books and vote on their local favourite.

A visit to the Carnegie/Greenway website, carnegiegreenaway.org.uk, will offer information on the shadowing scheme and also show you the shortlist for the awards. On the site children can post their reviews and the results of their local voting, as well as download bookmarks, membership cards and certificates.

The link below will take you to the login screen for the library catalogue. You will need to enter your User ID and PIN (if you are a library member) or enter as a guest user. Once in the catalogue you will see a link in the Recommended Reading box to a list of previous winners for these awards.

Visit the Library Catalogue.

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