Shortlists announced for the 2008 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards
Fourteen outstanding children’s books go head to head for the 2008 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony at the British Library in London on Thursday 26 June.
The CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2008
Tricia Adams, Chair of the Judges, comments on the CILIP Carnegie 2008 shortlist:
“As adept storytellers and masters of their craft, these writers employ great lightness of touch in dealing with eternal themes from an historical perspective. Each one illuminates something different about the world we live in today, making the past accessible and relevant to the present. This is strong, imaginative writing for young people that unlocks history way beyond the classroom.”
KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND GATTY’S TALE
Orion (Age range: 10+)
ISBN: 9781842552735
LINZI GLASS RUBY RED
Penguin (Age range: 12+)
ISBN: 9780141382807
ELIZABETH LAIRD CRUSADE
Macmillan (Age range: 10+)
ISBN: 9780330443111
TANYA LANDMAN APACHE
Walker (Age range: 12+)
ISBN: 9781406303315
PHILIP REEVE HERE LIES ARTHUR
Scholastic (Age range: 12+)
ISBN: 9780439955331
MEG ROSOFF WHAT I WAS
Penguin (Age range: 12+)
ISBN: 9780141383439
JENNY VALENTINE FINDING VIOLET PARK
HarperCollins (Age range: 12+)
ISBN: 9780007214457
The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlist 2008
Tricia Adams, Chair of the Judges, comments on the CILIP Kate Greenaway 2008 shortlist:
“2008’s shortlist is a really delightful mixture reflecting the very best of the quality of illustrators at work at the moment. There are a mixture of techniques, styles and appeal reflected in this very strong shortlist – something for everyone who appreciates the illustrator’s art from babies to adults.”
ANTHONY BROWNE SILLY BILLY
Walker Books (Age range: 5+)
ISBN: 9780744570175
POLLY DUNBAR PENGUIN
Walker Books (Age range: 3+)
ISBN: 9781844280650
EMILY GRAVETT LITTLE MOUSE’S BIG BOOK OF FEARS
Macmillan (Age range: 6+)
ISBN: 9781405089487
EMILY GRAVETT MONKEY AND ME
Macmillan (Age range: 0+)
ISBN: 9781405089494
JANE RAY (Text by Carol Ann Duffy) THE LOST HAPPY ENDINGS
Bloomsbury (Age range: 9+)
ISBN: 9780747579229
CHRIS RIDDELL OTTOLINE AND THE YELLOW CAT
Macmillan (Age range: 7+)
ISBN: 9781405050579
ED VERE BANANA!
Puffin (Age range: 0+)
ISBN: 9780141500591
Visit www.ckg.org.uk for more details about these fantastic books, authors and illustrators.
Tens of thousands of children join Carnegie Shadowing Scheme annually. Over 3,300 reading groups in schools and public libraries have registered to take part in the shadowing scheme for the awards, involving over 90,000 children and young people. For further information visit www.ckg.org.uk/shadowing
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Contact:
Mark Taylor, CILIP Marketing Executive
Tel: 020 7255 0650 Email: mark.taylor@cilip.org.uk
Notes for Editors:
CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals
The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded annually for a work of outstanding fiction for young people. Now in its 71st year, the Medal was awarded first to Arthur Ransome in 1937. Its sister award the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal is awarded annually for an outstanding work of illustration for young people and was first awarded in 1956 to Edward Ardizonne.
Regarded by many as the arbiter of quality writing and illustration for children and young people, since the medals’ inception, the children’s librarians who select the shortlists and winning titles have recognised world class writers and illustrators and frequently spotted fresh talent ahead of the rest. The list of past Medal winners places the UK at the forefront of children’s literature internationally and includes many of the great writers and illustrators of 20th and 21st centuries: David Almond, Eleanor Farjeon, Anne Fine, CS Lewis, Mary Norton, Philip Pullman, Janet Ahlberg, Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, Anthony Brown, Emily Gravett, Shirley Hughes and Helen Oxenbury to name a few.
The winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway also receives The Colin Mears Award of £5000, made possible by a bequest from Colin Mears, an accountant from Worthing who had a long-standing interest in children’s illustration and was a keen collector of works by Kate Greenaway and Edward Ardizzone.
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. It forms a community of around 36,000 people engaged in library and information work, of whom around 21,000 are CILIP Members and around 15,000 are regular customers of CILIP Enterprises. CILIP members work in all sectors, including business and industry, science and technology, further and higher education, schools, local and central government, the health service, the voluntary sector, national and public libraries. For more information about CILIP, please go to www.cilip.org.uk
YLG: The Youth Libraries Group is a Special Interest Group of CILIP. It works in a “pressure group” role, independently and with other professional organisations, to preserve and influence the provision of quality literature and library services for children and young people, both in public libraries and school library services.
Updated: 02 September 2008