LONGLISTS FOR 2019 CILIP CARNEGIE AND KATE GREENAWAY MEDALS ANNOUNCED

The longlists for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals have been announced. Members of YLG have selected 20 books for each list from no less than 254 nominations.

Though previous winners feature on both lists, there are books by debut authors and illustrators too; double listings for both The Lost Words by Robert Macfarland, illustrated by Jackie Morris, and Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki by Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love. This year the Carnegie list features a number of verse novels.

Alison Brumwell, Chair, CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals judging panel, said: ‘The forty books selected by judges offer intimate insights into family life, superb world-building and thoughtful, incisive explorations of complex themes and issues. Young readers have the opportunity to encounter characters in a diverse range of narratives who both reflect their own experiences and build empathy for different ways of living. This year’s shadowing groups will have plenty to debate and discuss!’

This year sees the introduction of a new award to sit alongside the two Medals categories. The Shadowers’ Choice Award, which will be announced alongside the two Medal winners in June 2019, will be voted for and awarded by the children and young people who shadow the Medals. This award has evolved out of CILIP’s recent Diversity Review, which identified opportunities to empower and celebrate the young people involved in the Medals through the shadowing scheme by giving them a more significant voice and visible presence in the process and prize giving.

Amnesty International UK continues to support the Medals in partnership with CILIP and will create human-rights based materials for all the shortlisted books to aid reflection and discussion in classrooms and libraries.

2019 CILIP Carnegie Medal longlist

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Electric Monkey)

Rebound [1] by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile (Andersen Press)

The Colour of the Sun by David Almond (Hodder Children's Books)

The House with Chicken Legs [2]by Sophie Anderson, illustrated by Elisa Paganelli (Usborne Books)

The Weight of a Thousand Feathers [3]by Brian Conaghan [4] (Bloomsbury)

Moonrise [5] by Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury)

Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki [6] byKevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love (Walker Books)

My Side of the Diamond [7] by Sally Gardner (Hot Key Books)

Bone Talk [8] by Candy Gourlay [9] (David Fickling Books)

A Skinful of Shadows [10] by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children's Books)

A Different Boy by Paul Jennings, illustrated by Geoff Kelly (Old Barn Books)

The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane, illustrated by Jackie Morris (Hamish Hamilton)

Hilary McKay’s Fairy Tales [11] by Hilary McKay, illustrated by Sarah Gibb (Macmillan Children's Books)

Things A Bright Girl Can Do [12] by Sally Nicholls [13] (Andersen Press)

The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan (Orion’s Children's Books)

The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf (Orion’s Children's Books)

Station Zero [14] by Philip Reeve (Oxford University Press)

Long Way Down [15] by Jason Reynolds [16], illustrated by Chris Priestley (Faber & Faber)

The Land of Neverendings [17] by Kate Saunders [18] (Faber & Faber)

Mud [19] by Emily Thomas (Andersen Press)

2019 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal longlist

A Stone for Sascha written and illustrated by Aaron Becker (Walker Books)

The Day War Came [20] by Nicola Davies, illustrated byRebecca Cobb(Walker Books)

This Zoo is Not for You written and illustrated by Ross Collins(Nosy Crow)

If All the World Were... [21] by Joseph Coelho, illustrated byAllison Colpoys (Frances Lincoln First Editions)

Bob's Blue Period written and illustrated byMarion Deuchars (Laurence King)

Ocean Meets Sky written and illustrated by Eric Fan and Terry Fan (Lincoln Children’s Books)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling, illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill (Bloomsbury)

The Last Wolf written and illustrated by Mini Grey (Ladybird Books)

Beyond the Fence written and illustrated by Maria Gulemetova (Child's Play Library)

Mary's Monster written and illustrated by Lita Judge (Wren & Rook)

The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen (Walker Books)

Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki [6] by Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love (Walker Books)

Julian is a Mermaid written and illustrated by Jessica Love (Walker Books)

Mrs Noah's Pockets by Jackie Morris, illustrated by James Mayhew (Otter Barry Books)

You're Safe With Me by Chitra Soundar, illustrated by Poonam Mistry (Lantana Publishing)

The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane, illustrated by Jackie Morris (Penguin General)

Suffragette: The Battle for Equality [22] written and illustrated by David Roberts [23] (Two Hoots)

Illegal [24] by Eoin Colfer & Andrew Colfer – illustrated by Giovanni Rigano

Animals with Tiny Cat written and illustrated by Viviane Schwarz (Walker Books)

The Family Tree [25] by Mal Peet – illustrated by Emma Shoard (Barrington
Stoke)

The shortlists for both the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals 2019 will be announced on Tuesday 19^th March 2019, with the winners being announced on Tuesday 18^thJune 2019 at a special daytime event at The British Library, hosted by Konnie Huq. The winners will each receive £500 worth of books to donate to their local library, a specially commissioned golden medal and a £5,000 Colin Mears Award cash prize.

The 2019 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are sponsored by Peters [26] and ALCS [27], and funded by Carnegie UK Trust [28].