The Carnegie Medal is named in honor of Andrew Carnegie and is "awarded annually to the writer of an outstanding book for children." The award is administered by CILIP, an organization of library professionals in the UK. The winner receives a golden medal and £500 worth of books to be donated to the library of their choice.

The latest winner of the Carnegie Medal for children's literature is featured below along with a complete list of all past winners of the medal. We also provide a link to our index of all book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.

The Latest Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Children's Literature

2007 - Just in Case by Meg Rosoff

[2008 award will be late June 2008 - See the 2008 shortlist here]

All past Winners of the Carnegie Medal for Children's Literature

1938 - The Circus is Coming by Noel Streatfield

1939 - Radium Woman by Eleanor Doorly

1940 - Visitors from London by Kitty Barne

1941 - We Couldn't Leave Dinah by Mary Treadgold

1942 - The Little Grey Men by 'BB' (D J Watkins-Pitchford)

1943 - Prize withheld as no book considered suitable

1944 - The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater

1945 - Prize withheld as no book considered suitable

1946 - The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

1947 - Collected Stories for Children by Walter De La Mare

1948 - Sea Change by Richard Armstrong

1949 - The Story of Your Home by Agnes Allen

1950 - The Lark on the Wing by Elfrida Vipont

1951 - The Woolpack by Cynthia Harnett

1952 - The Borrowers by Mary Norton

1953 - A Valley Grows Up by Edward Osmond

1954 - Knight Crusader by Ronald Welch (Felton Ronald Oliver)

1955 - The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon

1956 - The Last Battle by C S Lewis

1957 - A Grass Rope by William Mayne

1958 - Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce

1959 - The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff

1960 - The Making of Man by Dr I W Cornwall

1961 - A Stranger at Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston

1962 - The Twelve and the Genii by Pauline Clarke

1963 - Time of Trial by Hester Burton

1964 - Nordy Bank by Sheena Porter

1965 - The Grange at High Force by Philip Turner

1966 - Prize withheld as no book considered suitable

1967 - The Owl Service by Alan Garner

1968 - The Moon in the Cloud by Rosemary Harris

1969 - The Edge of the Cloud by Kathleen Peyton

1970 - The God Beneath the Sea by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen

1971 - Josh by Ivan Southall

1972 - Watership Down by Richard Adams

1973 - The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively

1974 - The Stronghold by Mollie Hunter

1975 - The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall

1976 - Thunder and Lightnings by Jan Mark

1977 - The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler by Gene Kemp

1978 - The Exeter Blitz by David Rees

1979 - Tulku by Peter Dickinson