Carnegie Medal Long List
Nominations for the 2012 Canegie Medal have been announced. Science fiction and fantasy related works on this year’s list include:
- My Name is Mina, David Almond (Hodder)
- Flip, Martin Bedford (Walker)
- Boys Don’t Cry, Malorie Blackman (Doubleday)
- Buried Thunder, Tim Bowler (Oxford Children’s)
- Noah Barleywater Runs Away, John Boyne (David Fickling)
- Tyme’s End, B.R. Collins (Bloomsbury)
- Matched, Ally Condie (Puffin)
- Bracelet of Bones, Kevin Crossley-Holland (Quercus)
- The Search for Wondla, Tony Diterlizzi (Simon & Schuster)
- Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly (Bloomsbury)
- The Devil Walks, Anne Fine (Doubleday)
- Dragonborn, Toby Forward (Walker)
- Wish Me Dead, Helen Grant (Puffin)
- Twilight Robbery, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan)
- The Midnight Zoo, Sonia Hartnett (Walker)
- One Dog and His Boy, Eva Ibbotson (Marion Lloyd)
- Trash, Andy Mulligan (David Fickling)
- A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness (Walker)
- The Dead of Winter, Chris Priestley (Bloomsbury)
- Across the Universe, Beth Revis (Puffin)
- Magicalamity, Kate Saunders (Marion Lloyd)
- The Emerald Atlas, John Stephens (Doubleday)
- Blood Red Road, Moira Young (Marion Lloyd)
The full long list can be found on the CILIP website here.
Awarded by the CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) the prestigious Carnegie Medal is awarded to “the most outstanding book for children” published in the UK. To be eligible for the 2012 awards, titles must have been first published in the UK between September 1, 2010 and August 31, 2011. More on the award process can be found on the CILIP website here.