The Carnegie Medal for Writing is the oldest prize for children’s books in Britain, awarded since 1937 by librarians for an outstanding book written for children and young people. Its winners run from Arthur Ransome’s Pigeon Post through The Borrowers, Tom’s Midnight Garden and Watership Down to Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights, Neil Gaiman and Patrick Ness, who won it twice in a row. This list collects the winning books by the year the medal was presented, which until 2006 was the year after the book was published.
Wolf Siren
Beth O’Brien
Glasgow Boys
Margaret McDonald
The Boy Lost in the Maze
Joseph Coelho
The Blue Book of Nebo
Manon Steffan Ros
October, October
Katya Balen
Look Both Ways
Jason Reynolds
Lark
Anthony McGowan
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
Where the World Ends
Geraldine McCaughrean
Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys
One
Sarah Crossan
Buffalo Soldier
Tanya Landman
The Bunker Diary
Kevin Brooks
Maggot Moon
Sally Gardner
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
Monsters of Men
Patrick Ness
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
Bog Child
Siobhan Dowd
Here Lies Arthur
Philip Reeve
Just in Case
Meg Rosoff
Tamar
Mal Peet
Millions
Frank Cottrell Boyce
A Gathering Light
Jennifer Donnelly
Ruby Holler
Sharon Creech
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett
The Other Side of Truth
Beverley Naidoo
Postcards from No Man’s Land
Aidan Chambers
Skellig
David Almond
River Boy
Tim Bowler
Junk
Melvin Burgess
Northern Lights
Philip Pullman
Whispers in the Graveyard
Theresa Breslin
Stone Cold
Robert Swindells
Flour Babies
Anne Fine
Dear Nobody
Berlie Doherty
Wolf
Gillian Cross
Goggle-Eyes
Anne Fine
A Pack of Lies
Geraldine McCaughrean
The Ghost Drum
Susan Price
Granny Was a Buffer Girl
Berlie Doherty
Storm
Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Changeover
Margaret Mahy
Handles
Jan Mark
The Haunting
Margaret Mahy
The Scarecrows
Robert Westall
City of Gold
Peter Dickinson
Tulku
Peter Dickinson
The Exeter Blitz
David Rees
The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler
Gene Kemp
Thunder and Lightnings
Jan Mark
The Machine Gunners
Robert Westall
The Stronghold
Mollie Hunter
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Penelope Lively
Watership Down
Richard Adams
Josh
Ivan Southall
The God Beneath the Sea
Leon Garfield, Edward Blishen
The Edge of the Cloud
K. M. Peyton
The Moon in the Cloud
Rosemary Harris
The Owl Service
Alan Garner
The Grange at High Force
Philip Turner
Nordy Bank
Sheena Porter
Time of Trial
Hester Burton
The Twelve and the Genii
Pauline Clarke
A Stranger at Green Knowe
Lucy M. Boston
The Making of Man
I. W. Cornwall
The Lantern Bearers
Rosemary Sutcliff
Tom's Midnight Garden
Philippa Pearce
A Grass Rope
William Mayne
The Last Battle
C. S. Lewis
The Little Bookroom
Eleanor Farjeon
Knight Crusader
Ronald Welch
A Valley Grows Up
Edward Osmond
The Borrowers
Mary Norton
The Woolpack
Cynthia Harnett
The Lark on the Wing
Elfrida Vipont
The Story of Your Home
Agnes Allen
Sea Change
Richard Armstrong
Collected Stories for Children
Walter de la Mare
The Little White Horse
Elizabeth Goudge
The Wind on the Moon
Eric Linklater
The Little Grey Men
BB
We Couldn’t Leave Dinah
Mary Treadgold
Visitors from London
Kitty Barne
The Radium Woman
Eleanor Doorly
The Circus Is Coming
Noel Streatfeild
The Family from One End Street
Eve Garnett
Pigeon Post
Arthur Ransome
