Carnegie Medal for Illustration

The Carnegie Medal for Illustration (until 2022 the Kate Greenaway Medal) is a British award that annually recognises "distinguished illustration in a book for children". It is conferred upon the illustrator by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)

Winners of multiple awards

Only one illustrator, Chris Riddell, has won three Medals. Fourteen other illustrators have won two of the 64 Medals awarded through 2021. The first winner of two Medals was John Burningham, 1963 and 1970. The most recent is Sydney Smith in 2018 and 2021.

Only A Monster Calls (Walker Books, 2011), by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay, has won both the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for writing and illustration (2012).

In 2014, This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen won both the Greenaway Medal and the American Caldecott Medal, which recognises a picture book illustrated by a U.S. citizen or resident. This is the first time the same book has won both medals. The recently common practice of co-publication makes a double win possible.<!-- do we know whether and when each was limited to citizen or resident illustrators, as the Carnegie was and Newbery is limited?

--> Indeed, This Is Not My Hat was released in Britain and America on the same day, 9 October 2012, by Walker Books and its American subsidiary Candlewick Press.

Gail E. Haley was the first illustrator to win both medals, albeit for different works: the 1971 Caldecott for A Story a Story (1970) and the 1976 Greenaway for The Post Office Cat. She also wrote both books.

Helen Oxenbury, who won the 1969 and 1999 medals, was also a "Highly Commended" runner-up four times from 1989 to 1994; the distinction was used 31 times in 29 years to 2002 and no other illustrator was highly commended more than twice. Polling was subsequently opened between 20 April and 14 June 2007 for ten shortlisted titles determined by a panel and the winner was announced on 21 June 2007 at the British Library. By less than one percentage point Dogger, illustrated and written by Shirley Hughes (1977), outpolled Each Peach Pear Plum illustrated by Janet Ahlberg and written by Allan Ahlberg (1978).

The nation, and international voters too, considered a ballot or all-time shortlist comprising ten of the 50 Medal-winning works, selected by six "children's book experts". The panel provided annotations including recommended ages that range from 1+ to 10+ years; age 4+ for the winner.

50th Anniversary Top Ten

Janet Ahlberg, Each Peach Pear Plum (Kestrel, 1978), written by Allan Ahlberg
Edward Ardizzone, Tim All Alone (Oxford, 1956)
Quentin Blake, Mr Magnolia (Jonathan Cape, 1980)
Raymond Briggs, Father Christmas (Hamish Hamilton, 1973)
Anthony Browne, Gorilla (Julia MacRae, 1983)
John Burningham, Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers (Jonathan Cape, 1963)
Lauren Child, I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (Orchard, 2000)
Shirley Hughes, Dogger (Bodley Head, 1977)
Charles Keeping, The Highwayman (Oxford, 1981), an edition of the 1906 poem by Alfred Noyes
Helen Oxenbury, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Walker, 1999), an edition of the 1865 novel by Lewis Carroll

Shortlists and Honorees

Headings give the official award dates: years of publication before 2006; years of presentation after 2006.

1972 Krystyna Turska, The Woodcutter's Duck (Hamish Hamilton) @

:– Carol Barker, King Midas and the Golden Touch (Franklin Watts), a version of the Midas myth

:– Pauline Baynes, Snail and Caterpillar (Longman), by Helen Piers

:– Antony Maitland, The Ghost Downstairs (Longman), by Leon Garfield

1973 Raymond Briggs, Father Christmas (Hamish Hamilton) @

:– Fiona French, King Tree (Oxford) @

:– Errol Lloyd, My Brother Sean (Bodley Head), by Petronella Breinburg

Briggs introduced the grumpy old man with a challenging, lonely job, to be continued in Father Christmas Goes on Holiday ( ). Father Christmas was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works in 2007.

1989 Michael Foreman, War Boy: a Country Childhood (Pavilion) @ —autobiographical

:+ Helen Oxenbury, We're Going on a Bear Hunt (Walker), retold by Michael Rosen

Foreman won his second medal. Oxenbury was highly commended for the first of four times.

1990s

In 1991 Janet Ahlberg won her second medal, both for books that were husband-and-wife collaborations. The Jolly Christmas Postman was the second of three interactive Jolly Postman books; the last would be published posthumously. Janet Ahlberg is one of three people to be commended for the Greenaway Medal, at least, for two books in a series.

1992 saw Anthony Browne win his second medal, on this occasion for Zoo written by Julia MacRae.

In 1993 Michael Foreman was a distinguished runner-up for the fifth time (once highly commended).

In 1994 Helen Oxenbury was the lone "Highly Commended" runner-up for the fourth time in six years. The distinction would be used 31 times in 29 years to 2002. Oxenbury and author Trish Cooke would also win the Emils (Kurt Maschler Award) for So Much.

|Kim Lewis

|The Shepherd Boy

|Walker Books

|—

|Shortlist

|- style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="7" |1991

|Janet Ahlberg

|The Jolly Christmas Postman

|Heinemann

|Allan Ahlberg

|Winner

|Fiona French

|Anancy and Mr Dry-Bone

|Frances Lincoln

|—

|Shortlist

|Robert Ingpen

|Treasure Island

|Dragon's World

|an edition of the 1883 classic by Robert Louis Stevenson

|Shortlist

|- style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="7" |1993

|Alan Lee

|Black Ships Before Troy

|Frances Lincoln

|Rosemary Sutcliff

|Winner

|Gary Blythe

|The Garden

|Hutchinson

|Dyan Sheldon

|Shortlist

|Anthony Browne

|King Kong

|Julia MacRae

|from the 1932 novelised story of King Kong

|Shortlist

|Ken Brown

|Tattybogle

|Andersen Press

|Sandra Horn

|Shortlist

|- style="background:LemonChiffon;"

|Caroline Binch

|Down by the River

|Heinemann

|Grace Hallworth

|Highly commended

|Susan Field

|The Smallest Whale

|Orchard Books

|Elisabeth Beresford

|Shortlist

|Anthony Browne

|Willy the Dreamer

|Walker Books

|—

|Shortlist

|Quentin Blake

|Zagazoo

|Jonathan Cape

|—

|Shortlist

|Christian Birmingham

|Wombat Goes Walkabout

|HarperCollins

|Michael Morpurgo

|Shortlist

|- style="background:LemonChiffon;"

|Anthony Browne

|Willy's Pictures

|—

|Highly commended

|Lauren Child

|Beware of the Storybook Wolves

|Hodder Children's Books

|—

|Shortlist

|- style="background:LemonChiffon;"

|Jez Alborough

|Fix-it Duck

|Picture Lions

|—

|Highly commended

|Nicola Bayley

|Katje the Windmill Cat

|Walker Books

|Gretchen Woelfle

|Shortlist

|- style="background:Honeydew;"

|Lauren Child

|That Pesky Rat

|Orchard Books

|—

|Commended

|Simon Bartram

|Man on the Moon

|Templar

|—

|Shortlist

|Nick Butterworth

|Albert le Blanc

|Collins

|—

|Shortlist

|Anthony Browne

|The Shape Game

|Doubleday

|—

|Shortlist

|Alexis Deacon

|Beegu

|Hutchinson

|—

|Shortlist

|Ian Andrew

|The Boat

|Templar

|Helen Ward

|Shortlist

|Russell Ayto

|One More Sheep

|Hodder

|Mij Kelly

|Shortlist

|Tony DiTerlizzi

|Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You

|Simon & Schuster

|Holly Black

|Shortlist

|Mini Grey

|Traction Man is Here

|Red Fox

|—

|Shortlist

|Emily Gravett

|Orange Pear Apple Bear

|Pan Macmillan

|— (four words only)

|Shortlist

|Anthony Browne

|Silly Billy

|Walker Books

|—

|Shortlist

|Polly Dunbar

|Penguin

|Walker Books

|—

|Shortlist

|Angela Barrett

|The Snow Goose

|Hutchinson

|an edition of the 1941 novella by Paul Gallico

|Shortlist

|Marc Craste

|Varmints

|Templar

|Helen Ward

|Shortlist

| In this year the shortlist comprised only seven nominations as opposed to the usual eight.

In 2016, Chris Riddell became the first triple medalist in the history of the award, having previously won in 2001 and 2004.

From 2016 to 2018 an additional award, The Amnesty CLIP Honour, was bestowed upon a shortlisted entry in conjunction with Amnesty International for "books that most distinctively illuminate, uphold or celebrate freedoms". In 2016 There's a Bear on My Chair received the inaugural honour and in 2017 the winner was The Journey, illustrated and written by Italian artist Francesca Sanna, which followed a family of refugees. In 2018, Levi Penfold received the honour for his black and white illustrations in The Song from Somewhere Else.

In 2018 there were only seven shortlisted nominees as opposed to the usual eight. The winner, Sydney Smith would go on to win again in 2021.

In 2019 the Amnesty CLIP Honour was replaced by the Shadowers' Choice Award, voted for and awarded by children and young people who shadow the Medals.

Colour key:

: – Medal Winner

: – Amnesty CLIP Honour (2016–2018) and Shadowers' Choice Award (2019–) winner if different from Medal winner

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|+Medal winners and Shortlists, 2010-2019

!Year

!Illustrator

!Title

!Publisher

!Author (if different)

!Result

!Ref.

|- style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="8" |2010

|Freya Blackwood

|Harry and Hopper

|Scholastic

|Margaret Wild

|Winner

|Grahame Baker-Smith

|Leon and the Place Between

|Templar

|Angela McAllister

|Shortlist

|Oliver Jeffers

|The Great Paper Caper

|HarperCollins

|—

|Shortlist

|Anthony Browne

|Me and You

|Doubleday

|—

|Shortlist

|Bob Graham

|April Underhill Tooth Fairy

|Walker Books

|—

|Shortlist

|Emily Gravett

|Wolf Won't Bite!

|Pan Macmillan

|—

|Shortlist

|Petr Horáček

|Puffin Peter

|Walker Books

|—

|Shortlist

|Rebecca Cobb

|Lunchtime

|Pan Macmillan

|—

|Shortlist

|Emily Gravett

|Again!

|Pan Macmillan

|—

|Shortlist

|Rebecca Cobb

|The Paper Dolls

|Pan Macmillan

|Julia Donaldson

|Shortlist

|Olivia Gill

|Where My Wellies Take Me

|Templar

|Michael Morpurgo and Clare Morpurgo

|Shortlist

|Laura Carlin

|The Promise

|Walker Books

|Nicola Davies

|Shortlist

|Alexis Deacon

|Jim's Lion

|Walker Books

|Russell Hoban

|Shortlist

|- style="background:LemonChiffon;"

|Ross Collins

|There's a Bear on My Chair

|Nosy Crow

|—

|Shortlist and Amnesty CILIP Honoree

|Oliver Jeffers

|Once Upon an Alphabet

|HarperCollins

|—

|Shortlist

|Emily Gravett

|Tidy

|Two Hoots

|—

|Shortlist

|- style="background:LemonChiffon;"

|Levi Pinfold

|The Song from Somewhere Else

|Bloomsbury

|A.F. Harrold

|Shortlist and Amnesty CILIP Honoree

|Debi Gliori

|Night Shift

|Hot Key Books

|—

|Shortlist

|Jon Klassen

|The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse

|Walker Books

|Mac Barnett

|Shortlist

|Rebecca Cobb

|The Day War Came

|Walker Books

|Nicola Davies

|Shortlist

In 2022, Long Way Down by Danica Novgorodoff became the first graphic novel to win the medal since Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas in 1973. The 2023 medal also went to a graphic novel. In that year there were only six shortlisted nominees as opposed to the usual slate of eight.

Colour key:

: – Medal Winner

: – Shadowers' Choice Award winner if different from Medal winner

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|+Medal winners and Shortlists, 2020-

!Year

!Illustrator

!Title

!Publisher

!Author (if different)

!Result

!Ref.

|- style="background:#cddeff"

! rowspan="8" |2020

|Shaun Tan

|Tales from the Inner City

|Walker Books

|—

|Winner

|Poonam Mistry

|You're Snug with Me

|Lantana Publishing

|Chitra Soundar

|Shortlist

|- style="background:LemonChiffon;"

|Sharon King-Chai

|Starbird

|Two Hoots

|—

|Shortlist & Shadowers' Choice Award

|Sara Lundberg

|The Bird Within Me

|Book Island

|— (translated by B. J. Epstein)

|Shortlist

|- style="background:LemonChiffon;"

|Mariachiara Di Giorgio

|The Midnight Fair

|Walker Books

|Gideon Sterer

|Shortlist & Shadowers' Choice Award

|George Butler

|Drawn Across Borders

|Walker Books

|—

|Shortlist

|- style="background:LemonChiffon;"

|Joe Todd-Stanton

|The Comet

|Flying Eye Books

|—

|Shortlist & Shadowers' Choice Award

|Flora Delargy

|Rescuing Titanic

|Wide Eyed Editions

|—

|Shortlist

|Catalina Echeverri

|April's Garden

|Graffeg

|Isla McGuckin

|Shortlist

|- style="background:LemonChiffon;"

|Theo Parish

|Homebody

|Macmillan

|—

|Shortlist & Shadowers' Choice Award

|The Endless Sea

|Walker Studio

|Chi Thai

|Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel

|Faber

|William Golding, adapted by Aimée de Jongh

|The Sleeper Train

|Walker

|Mick Jackson

|Wildful

|Pushkin Children's

|—

|Freedom Braids

|Lantana

|Monique Duncan

|The Paper Bridge

|Floris Books

|Joelle Veyrenc, trans. by Katy Lockwood-Holmes

|Wiggling Words

|Two Hoots

|—

Notes

References

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Winners of multiple awards

Shortlists and Honorees

1990s

See also

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