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2005

The Carnegie Medal

The Carnegie Medal, named for Scottish-born philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, is awarded each year by the  Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals to the author of an outstanding English language  children's book.  To learn more, please visit the CILIP web site.

2004

 
Millions

by Frank Cottrell Boyce

2003

A Gathering Light  by Jennifer Donnelly

2002

 
Ruby Holler

by Sharon Creech

2001

 
Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett

2000

Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo

1999

 
Postcards from No Man's Land by Aidan Chambers

1998

 
Skellig

by David Almond

1997

 
River Boy

by Tim Bowler

1996

Junk 

by Melvin Burgess

1995

The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1) by Philip Pullman

1994

 
Whispers in the Graveyard by Theresa Breslin

1993

 
Stone Cold

by Robert Swindells

1992

 
Flour Babies

by Anne Fine

1991

 
Dear Nobody

by Berlie Doherty

1990

Wolf

by Gillian Cross

1989

Google-eyes by Anne Fine

1988

A Pack of Lies by Geraldine McCaughrean

1987

 
Ghost Drum: A Cat's Tale by Susan Price

1986

 
Granny Was a Buffer Girl by Berlie Doherty

1985

Storm by Kevin Crossley-Holland

1984

 
Changeover: A Supernatural Romance, Vol. 1 by Margaret Mahy

1983

Handles  by Jan Mark

1982

The Haunting  by Margaret Mahy

1981

Scarecrows by Robert Westall

1980

City of Gold  by Peter Dickinson

1979

Tulku  by Peter Dickinson

1978

Exeter Blitz  by David Rees

1977

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler  by Gene Kemp

1976

Thunder and Lightenings  by Jan Mark

1975

Machine Gunners by Robert Westall

1974

The Stronghold by Mollie Hunter

1973

 
Ghost of Thomas Kempe, Vol. 1 by Penelope Lively

1972

 
Watership Down by Richard Adams

1971

 
Josh

by Ivan Southall

1970

The God Beneath the Sea  by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen

1969

The Edge of the Cloud by Kathleen Peyton

1968

 
Moon in the Cloud by Rosemary Harris

1967

 
Owl Service

by Alan Garner

1966

NO AWARD PRESENTED

1965

The Grange at High Force  by Philip Turner

1964

Nordy Bank by Sheena Porter

1963

Time of Trial by Hester Burton

1962

The Twelve and the Genii by Pauline Clarke

1961

 
Stranger at Green Knowe by L. M. Boston

1960

The Making of Man  by Dr. I W Cornwall

1959

 
Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff

1958

 
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa  Pearce

1957

A Grass Rope by William Mayne

1956

 
The Last Battle

by C. S. Lewis

1955

The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon

1954

Knight Crusader by Ronald Welch

1953

A Valley Grows Up by Edward Osmond

1952

 
The Borrowers

by Mary Norton

1951

The Woolpack by Cynthia Harnett

1950

 The Lark on the Wing by Elfrida Vipont Foulds

1949

The Story of Your Home by Agnes Allen

1948

Sea Change by Richard Armstrong

1947

Collected Stories for Children by Walter De La Mare

1946

 
Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

1945

NO AWARD PRESENTED

1944

 
The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater

1943

NO AWARD PRESENTED

1942

 
Little Grey Men: A Story for the Young in Heart by "BB" (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford)

1941

We Couldn't Leave Dinah by Mary Treadgold

1940

Visitors from London by Kitty Barne

1939

Radium Woman by Eleanor Doorly

1938

The Circus is Coming by Noel Streatfield

1937

The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett

1936

 
Pigeon Post

by Arthur Ransome