Carnegie and Greenaway announcement

The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals have been announced. Guy Dammann reports for the Guardian, "Philip Reeve has won the 2008 Carnegie Medal for children's books with his searching re-examination of one of England's national legends, Here Lies Arthur. Emily Gravett, meanwhile, has won the Kate Greenaway Medal for the second time in three years with her latest illustrated tale, Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears."

Award Info

The Carnegie Medal shortlist has been announced. Here it is:

• Gatty's Tale, by Kevin Crossley-Holland
• Ruby Red, by Linzi Glass
• Apache, by Tanya Lindman
• Crusade, by Elizabeth Laird
• Here Lies Arthur, by Philip Reeve
• What I Was, by Meg Rosoff (I recently read this one and hope to post a review this weekend. It's a novel that stays with you, even if Rosoff's titles are ones you tend to forget.)
• Finding Violet Park, by Jenny Valentine

I love the Carnegie. My favorite award other than the Cybils, of course.

The Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award (for books written and illustrated by Canadians) shortlists have also been announced. Here they are:

Picture Book:

• Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend, by Melanie Watt
• Grumpy Bird, by Jeremy Tankard
• The Aunts Come Marching, by Bill Richardson and illustrated by Cynthia Nugent
  
• The Boy from the Sun, by Duncan Weller
• The Painted Circus: P.T. Vermin Presents a Mesmerizing Menagerie of Trickery and Illusion Guaranteed to Beguile and Bamboozle the Beholder, by Wallace Edwards
  

MG/YA

• Dancing Through the Snow, by Jean Little
• Darkwing, by Kenneth Oppel
• Elijah of Buxton, by Christopher Paul Curtis
  
• A Perfect Gentle Knight, by Kit Pearson
• Rex Zero, King of Nothing, by Tim Wynne-Jones
  

Carnegie Award

This just in! Meg Rosoff has won the Carnegie Medal for Just in Case.

And, Mini Grey won the Kate Greenaway Medal for The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon.

This year, I've actually reviewed both these titles. If you're interested, here are the reviews: Just in Case and The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon.

You've gotta love the top 10 lists

I'm just joking. This one is actually pretty good: the Carnegie of Carnegies.

Arifa Akbar reports for the Independent.

Here's the entire list:

• Skeling, by David Almond (1998)
• Junk, by Melvin Burgess (1996)
• Storm, by Kevin Crossley-Holland (1985)
• A Gathering Light, by Jennifer Donnelly (2003)
• The Owl Service, by Alan Garner (1967)
• The Family from One End Street, by Eve Garnett (1937)
• The Borrowers, by Mary Norton (1952)
• Tom's Midnight Garden, by Philippa Pearce (1958)
• Northern Lights, by Philip Pullman (1995)
• The Machine-Gunners, by Robert Westall (1981)

Carnegie and Greenaway Longlists

With the exception of The Cybils, the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are the best children's book prizes of the year. The shortlisted titles are usually entertaining and interesting and certainly worth reading.

Michelle Pauli announces the longlists for the 2006 Carnegie and Greenaway prizes for the Guardian.

Awards, awards, awards

Michelle Pauli reports for the Guardian that the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway committees are seeking public input to award the Carnegie of Carnegies and the Greenaway of Greenaways. Here's how it will work:

• "In a three-stage process, members of the public will first be asked to nominate their favourite from the roll call of winners, along with the reasons for their choice. An expert panel of judges will then further whittle the list to 10. The shortlist will then go back to the public for a final vote on the ultimate winner."

To vote, head on over to the Carnegie site. Nominations close Dec. 1.

And, don't forget to nominate your favorite books for The Cybils!