Carnegie/Kate Greenaway 2009
What a day to take off huh?! One of the largest awards in the UK gets announced - and where am I? Trying on sunglasses while it lashes rain outside… So, back to my point. It’s that time of year again - the shortlist time of year… Well it’s the Carnegie/Greenaway shortlist anyway.
And here they are:
CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist
Frank Cottrell Boyce, Cosmic (Macmillan)
Kevin Brooks, Black Rabbit Summer (Penguin)
Eoin Colfer, Airman (Puffin)
Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child (David Fickling)
Keith Gray, Ostrich Boys (Definitions)
Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go (Walker)
Kate Thompson, Creature of the Night (Bodley Head)
CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal
Angela Barrett, The Snow Goose (text by Paul Gallico, Hutchinson)
Marc Craste, Varmints (text by Helen Ward, Templar)
Thomas Docherty, Little Boat (Templar)
Bob Graham, How to Heal a Broken Wing (Walker)
Oliver Jeffers, The Way Back Home (HarperCollins)
Dave McKean, The Savage (text by David Almond, Walker)
Catherine Rayner, Harris Finds His Feet (Little Tiger Press)
Chris Wormell, Molly and The Night Monster (Cape)
The VHC has already spotted the trends - namely that four of the books shortlisted also feature on the Bisto Book of The Year shortlist - Jeffers, Thompson, Colfer and Dowd. And Bookbrunch has some analysis of both the Carnegie and the Kate Greenaway. And after all of that - there isn’t much left for me to say really. I’m hugely impressed by the Carnegie shortlist - all of the books are potential winners. The Kate Greenaway is far more mixed - highlighting so many different types of illustration - and a hugely broad spectrum of talents. In short, I don’t envy the judges their decision.
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