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Carnegie Medal Winners
The Carnegie Medal is awarded annually in the United Kingdom by CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Library
and Information Professionals, to the writer of an outstanding book for children.
It was established by The Library Association in 1936, in memory of the great Scottish-born philanthropist,
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).
For more information see: The Carnegie Medal Home Page
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| Year | Title | Author |
| 2011 | Monsters of Men | Patrick Ness |
| 2010 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman |
| 2009 | Bog Child | Siobhan Dowd |
| 2008 | Here Lies Arthur | Philip Reeve |
| 2007 | Just in Case | Meg Rosoff |
| 2005 | Tamar | Mal Peet |
| 2004 | Millions | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
| 2003 | A Northern Light | Jennifer Donnelly |
| 2002 | Ruby Holler | Sharon Creech |
| 2001 | The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents | Terry Pratchett |
| 2000 | The Other Side of Truth | Beverley Naidoo |
| 1999 | Postcards From No Man's Land | Aidan Chambers |
| 1998 | Skellig | David Almond |
| 1997 | River Boy | Tim Bowler |
| 1996 | Junk | Melvin Burgess |
| 1995 | The Golden Compass (Alternate Title: Northern Lights) | Philip Pullman |
| 1994 | Whispers in the Graveyard | Theresa Breslin |
| 1993 | Stone Cold | Robert Swindells |
| 1992 | Flour Babies | Anne Fine |
| 1991 | Dear Nobody | Berlie Doherty |
| 1990 | Wolf | Gillian Cross |
| 1989 | Goggle-eyes | Anne Fine |
| 1988 | A Pack of Lies | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| 1987 | The Ghost Drum | Susan Price |
| 1986 | Granny was a Buffer Girl | Berlie Doherty |
| 1985 | Storm | Kevin Crossley-Holland |
| 1984 | The Changeover | Margaret Mahy |
| 1983 | Handles | Jan Mark |
| 1982 | The Haunting | Margaret Mahy |
| 1981 | The Scarecrows | Robert Westall |
| 1980 | City of Gold | Peter Dickinson |
| 1979 | Tulku | Peter Dickinson |
| 1978 | The Exeter Blitz | David Rees |
| 1977 | The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler | Gene Kemp |
| 1976 | Thunder and Lightnings | Jan Mark |
| 1975 | The Machine Gunners | Robert Westall |
| 1974 | The Stronghold | Mollie Hunter |
| 1973 | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe | Penelope Lively |
| 1972 | Watership Down | Richard Adams |
| 1971 | Josh | Ivan Southall |
| 1970 | The God Beneath the Sea | Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen |
| 1969 | The Edge of the Cloud | Kathleen Peyton |
| 1968 | The Moon in the Cloud | Rosemary Harris |
| 1967 | The Owl Service | Alan Garner |
| 1966 | Prize withheld as no book considered suitable | |
| 1965 | The Grange at High Force | Philip Turner |
| 1964 | Nordy Bank | Sheena Porter |
| 1963 | Time of Trial | Hester Burton |
| 1962 | The Return of the Twelves (Alternate Title: The Twelve and the Genii) | Pauline Clarke |
| 1961 | A Stranger at Green Knowe | Lucy M Boston |
| 1960 | The Making of Man | Dr I W Cornwall |
| 1959 | The Lantern Bearers | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| 1958 | Tom's Midnight Garden | Philipa Pearce |
| 1957 | A Grass Rope | William Mayne |
| 1956 | The Last Battle | C S Lewis |
| 1955 | The Little Bookroom | Eleanor Farjeon |
| 1954 | Knight Crusader | Ronald Welch (Felton Ronald Oliver) |
| 1953 | A Valley Grows Up | Edward Osmond |
| 1952 | The Borrowers | Mary Norton |
| 1951 | The Wool-pack | Cynthia Harnett |
| 1950 | The Lark on the Wing | Elfrida Vipont Foulds |
| 1949 | The Story of Your Home | Agnes Allen |
| 1948 | Sea Change | Richard Armstrong |
| 1947 | Collected Stories for Children | Walter De La Mare |
| 1946 | The Little White Horse | Elizabeth Goudge |
| 1945 | Prize withheld as no book considered suitable | |
| 1944 | The Wind on the Moon | Eric Linklater |
| 1943 | Prize withheld as no book considered suitable | |
| 1942 | The Little Grey Men | 'BB' (D J Watkins-Pitchford) |
| 1941 | We Couldn't Leave Dinah | Mary Treadgold |
| 1940 | Visitors from London | Kitty Barne |
| 1939 | Radium Woman | Eleanor Doorly |
| 1938 | The Circus is Coming | Noel Streatfeild |
| 1937 | The Family from One End Street | Eve Garnett |
| 1936 | Pigeon Post | Arthur Ransome |