Children’s book awards shortlist announced
18 Apr 2008
The winners will be announced on Thursday 26 June
The shortlisted titles for the Carnegie Medal and its sister award, the Kate Greenaway Medal, have been announced.
Awarded annually by CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, these prestigious book awards honour outstanding children’s fiction and illustration.
CILIP Greenaway Medal shortlist
- Silly Billy by Anthony Browne (Walker Books, ISBN 9780744570175)
- Penguin by Polly Dunbar (Walker Books, ISBN 9781844280650)
- Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett (Macmillan, ISBN 9781405089487)
- Monkey and Me Emily Gravett (Macmillan, ISBN 9781405089494)
- The Lost Happy Endings by Jane Ray (illustrator) and Carol Ann Duffy (author) (Bloomsbury, ISBN 9780747579229)
- Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell (Macmillan, ISBN 9781405050579)
- Banana! by Ed Vere (Puffin, ISBN 9780141500591)
CILIP Carnegie Medal shortlist
- Gatty’s Tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Orion, ISBN 9781842552735)
- Ruby Red by Linzi Glass (Penguin, ISBN 9780141382807)
- Crusade by Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan, ISBN 9780330443111)
- Apache by Tanya Landman (Walker, ISBN 9781406303315)
- Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve (Scholastic, ISBN 978043995533)1
- What I was by Meg Rosoff (Penguin, ISBN 9780141383439)
- Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine (HarperCollins, ISBN 9780007214457)
The winners will be announced at a ceremony at the British Library in London on Thursday 26 June.
For more information about the CILIP Carnegie and Greenaway awards, go to www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk
