2017 Carnegie and Greenaway Medal Shortlists

The shortlists for the Carnegie Medal for best children’s book and the Kate Greenaway Medal for best illustrations in a children’s book were announced March 16, 2017. Titles of genre interest follow.

Carnegie Medal

• Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth, Frank Cottrell Boyce (Pan Macmillan)
• Beck, Mal Peet & Meg Rosoff (Walker)
• Railhead, Philip Reeve (Oxford University Press)

Greenaway Medal

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay (Bloomsbury)

The awards are presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. The winners will be announced June 19, 2017 in a ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London. For full lists, see the Carnegie Greenaway website.