The Yoto Carnegies are the UK’s longest running and best-loved children’s book awards, recognising outstanding reading experiences created through writing and illustration in books for children and young people.

Please join us in a showcase to celebrate the 16 brilliant titles that have been shortlisted by children’s librarians for this year’s awards.

"These are books to empower young readers, and for some will provide validation and refuge; stories of courage, of characters striving to find themselves and their place in the world, often in difficult or dangerous situations. The books shortlisted for the writing medal exemplify immersive and compelling writing with the power to inspire and move readers across a range of forms. The illustration shortlist is entirely comprised of picture books, with a strong theme of the environment, underlining the way picture books can speak to all ages, and showing how nature and illustrated books can heal and empower. We are excited to share these lists with shadowing groups and young readers, and very much look forward to reading their reviews and discovering their winners, alongside our own, at the announcement in June.”

Maura Farrelly, Chair of Judges for The Yoto Carnegies 2024

The winners will be announced and celebrated on Thursday 20 June at 12 noon in a live and streamed ceremony at the Cambridge Theatre, home of the RSC’s award-winning Matilda The Musical.