Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medal winners to be announced this week

This week the winners of the prestigious Carnegie Medal and Kate Greenaway Medal will be announced. Here's a reminder of the shortlists.

Shortlists for the UK's longest running book awards for children and young people, the prestigious Carnegie Greenaway Awards.

Authors Katya Balen, Phil Earle and Alex Wheatle were among the authors shortlisted for the first time for this year's Carnegie Medal while four debuts are recognised - Sue Divin for the Carnegie and George Butler, Danica Novgorodoff and Peter Van den Ende on the Kate Greenaway list.

The Awards celebrate outstanding achievement in children's writing and illustration respectively and are judged by children's and youth librarians, with the Shadowers' Choice Award voted for by children and young people.  

16 books were shortlisted in total - eight for the Carnegie Medal and eight for the Kate Greenaway Medal - from a longlist of 33 titles. They were chosen by an expert team of volunteer judges, featuring 14 librarians from CILIP's Youth Libraries Group based across the UK.

The 2022 Yoto Carnegie Medal shortlist (alphabetical by author surname):

 

· October, October by Katya Balen, illustrated by Angela Harding (Bloomsbury)

 

· Guard Your Heart by Sue Divin (Macmillan Children's Books)

 

· When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle (Andersen Press)

 

· Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock (Faber)

 

· The Crossing by Manjeet Mann (Penguin Children's Books)

 

· Tsunami Girl by Julian Sedgwick, illustrated by Chie Kutsuwada (Guppy Books)

 

· Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle (Andersen Press)

 

· Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam (HarperCollins Children's Books)

 

The 2022 Yoto Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist (alphabetical by illustrator surname):

 

· Drawn Across Borders illustrated and written by George Butler (Walker Books)

 

· The Midnight Fair illustrated by Mariachiara Di Giorgio, written by Gideon Sterer (Walker Books)

 

· Too Much Stuff illustrated and written by Emily Gravett (Two Hoots, Macmillan Children's Books)

 

· Long Way Down illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff, written by Jason Reynolds (Faber)

 

· Milo Imagines the World illustrated by Christian Robinson, written by Matt de la Pena (Two Hoots, Macmillan Children's Books)

 

· Shu Lin's Grandpa illustrated by Yu Rong, written by Matt Goodfellow (Otter-Barry Books)

 

· I Talk Like a River illustrated by Sydney Smith, written by Jordan Scott (Walker Books)

 

· The Wanderer illustrated and written by Peter Van den Ende (Pushkin Children's Books)