The Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration and Writing Shortlists 2024

 

• The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander (Andersen Press)
• The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell (Usborne Publishing)
• Away with Words by Sophie Cameron (Little Tiger)
• The Boy Lost in the Maze by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Kate Milner (Otter-Barry Books)
• Choose Love by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Petr Horáček (Graffeg)
• Crossing the Line by Tia Fisher (Hot Key Books)
• Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan (Andersen Press)
• Steady for This by Nathanael Lessore (Hot Key Books)

I have read and shared here Safiyyah’s War.

• The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker (Walker Books)
• April’s Garden illustrated by Catalina Echeverri, written by Isla McGuckin (Graffeg)
• Lost by Mariajo Ilustrajo (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books)
• The Wilderness by Steve McCarthy (Walker Books)
• To the Other Side by Erika Meza (Hodder Children’s Books)
• The Midnight Panther by Poonam Mistry (Templar Publishing)
• The Bowerbird illustrated by Catherine Rayner, written by Julia Donaldson (Macmillan Children’s Books)
• The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish by Chloe Savage (Walker Books)

I have previously talked about The Bowerbird illustrated by Catherine Rayner.

Literacy Hive: The 2024 shortlists for the UK’s longest running and most prestigious book awards for children and young people have been announced today, Wednesday 13th March. (You can see the longlists here). 

The Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing and the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration (formerly known as the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals) celebrate outstanding achievement in children’s writing and illustration respectively. Judged by a panel of children’s and youth librarians from across the UK, this year’s longlist of 36 titles has been whittled down to 16 – eight titles for each of the two award categories.

Poetry is a major feature of this year’s Medal for Writing, with three verse novels and a poetry collection accounting for half the shortlist. Picture books prevail on the shortlist for the Medal for Illustration, which includes previous winner Catherine Rayner and three-times shortlisted illustrator Poonam Mistry.

Long list books I have previously talked about:

The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll, illustrated by Lauren Child

Tyger by SF Said, illustrated by Dave McKean

The Concrete Garden by Bob Graham (Walker Books)