Book awards: Carnegie Medal

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Titles	Order
Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome	1936
The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett	1937
The Circus is Coming by Noel Streatfeild	1938
The Radium Woman: A Life of Marie Curie by Eleanor Doorly	1939
Visitors from London by Kitty Barne	1940
We Couldn't Leave Dinah by Mary Treadgold	1941
The Little Grey Men by BB	1942
The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater	1944
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge	1946
Collected Stories for Children by Walter de la Mare	1947
Sea Change by Richard Armstrong	1948
The Story of Your Home by Agnes Allen	1949
The Lark on the Wing by Elfrida Vipont	1950
The Wool-Pack by Cynthia Harnett	1951
The Borrowers by Mary Norton	1952
A Valley Grows Up by Edward Osmond	1953
Knight Crusader by Ronald Welch	1954
The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon	1955
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis	1956
A Grass Rope by William Mayne	1957
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce	1958
The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff	1959
The Making of Man by I. W. Cornwall	1960
A Stranger at Green Knowe by L. M. Boston	1961
The Return of the Twelves by Pauline Clarke	1962
Time of Trial by Hester Burton	1963
Nordy Bank by Sheena Porter	1964
The Grange at High Force by Philip Turner	1965
The Owl Service by Alan Garner	1967
The Moon in the Cloud by Rosemary Harris	1968
The Edge of the Cloud by K. M. Peyton	1969
The God Beneath the Sea by Leon Garfield	1970
Josh by Ivan Southall	1971
Watership Down by Richard Adams	1972
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively	1973
The Stronghold by Mollie Hunter	1974
The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall	1975
Thunder and Lightnings by Jan Mark	1976
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene Kemp	1977
The Exeter Blitz by David Rees	1978
Tulku by Peter Dickinson	1979
City of Gold and Other Stories from the Old Testament by Peter Dickinson	1980
The Scarecrows by Robert Westall	1981
The Haunting by Margaret Mahy	1982
Handles by Jan Mark	1983
The Changeover by Margaret Mahy	1984
Storm by Kevin Crossley-Holland	1985
Granny Was a Buffer Girl by Berlie Doherty	1986
The Ghost Drum by Susan Price	1987
A Pack of Lies by Geraldine McCaughrean	1988
Goggle-Eyes by Anne Fine	1989
Wolf by Gillian Cross	1990
Dear Nobody by Berlie Doherty	1991
Flour Babies by Anne Fine	1992
Stone Cold by Robert Swindells	1993
Whispers in the Graveyard by Theresa Breslin	1994
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman	1995
Smack by Melvin Burgess	1996
River Boy by Tim Bowler	1997
Skellig by David Almond	1998
Postcards From No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers	1999
The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo	2000
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett	2001
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech	2002
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly	2003
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce	2004
Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal by Mal Peet	2005
Just in Case by Meg Rosoff	2007
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve	2008
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd	2009
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman	2010

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How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
The Children of Green Knowe by L. M. Boston
Same series: An Enemy at Green Knowe (Green Knowe)
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy
What I Saw And How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Flambards by K. M. Peyton
The Box of Delights by John Masefield
Same series: The Midnight Folk (Kay Harker)
The Borrowers Afield by Mary Norton
Same series: The Borrowers Afloat (The Borrowers)
Savvy by Ingrid Law
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner
Same series: The Moon of Gomrath (Tales of Alderley)
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This award, established in 1936 in honor of Andrew Carnegie, is given for recognition of an outstanding book for children written in English and first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year. Note: Since 2007 the year relates to when the medal was awarded. Previously the year refers to the publication date of the books.

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The LibraryThing award page for books shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal can be found here and the LibraryThing award page for books nominated for the Carnegie Medal can be found here

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