2019 Carnegie and Greenaway Medal Longlists

Carnegie Medal

• The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo (Electric Monkey)
• Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi (Macmillan Children’s)
• The Colour of the Sun, David Almond (Hodder Children’s)
• The House with Chicken Legs, Sophie Anderson (Usborne)
• Endling: The Last, Katherine Applegate (Andersen)
• The Wonderling, Mira Bartók (Walker)
• The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club, Alex Bell (Faber & Faber)
• Emily Knight: I am… Awakened, A. Bello (Hashtag)
• The Cruel Prince, Holly Black (Hot Key)
• The Lost Witch, Melvin Burgess (Andersen)
• Out of the Blue, Sophie Cameron (Macmillan Children’s)
• The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton (Gollancz)
• The Hippo at the End of the Hall, Helen Cooper (Fickling)
• The Wizards of Once, Cressida Cowell (Hodder Children’s)
• Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki, Kevin Crossley-Holland (Walker)
• The Storm Keeper’s Island, Catherine Doyle (Bloomsbury)
• The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day, Christopher Edge (Nosy Crow)
• The Lifters, Dave Eggers (Scholastic)
• Sky Song, Abi Elphinstone (Simon & Schuster Children’s)
• Walls, Emma Fischel (Oxford University Press)
• A Skinful of Shadows, Frances Hardinge (Macmillan Children’s)
• Cold Bath Street, A.J. Hartley (UCLan Publishing)
• The Loneliest Girl in the Universe, Lauren James (Walker)
• Tin, Pádraig Kenny (Chicken House)
• Song of the Dolphin Boy, Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan Children’s)
• Satellite, Nick Lake (Hodder Children’s)
• The Gift of Dark Hollow, Kieran Larwood (Faber & Faber)
• The Wild Folk, Sylvia V. Linsteadt (Usborne)
• A Shiver of Snow and Sky, Lisa Lueddecke (Scholastic)
• Hilary McKay’s Fairy Tales, Hilary McKay (Macmillan Children’s)
• Potter’s Boy, Tony Mitton (Fickling)
• Max and the Millions, Ross Montgomery (Faber & Faber)
• The Invasion, Peadar O’Guilin (Fickling)
• The Surface Breaks, Louise O’Neill (Scholastic)
• The Astonishing Colour of After, Emily X.R. Pan (Orion Children’s)
• La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust, Volume One, Philip Pullman (Fickling)
• Station Zero, Philip Reeve (Oxford University Press)
• Ghost Boys, Jewell Parker Rhodes (Orion Children’s)
• The Dollmaker of Krakow, R.M. Romero (Walker)
• State of Sorrow, Melinda Salisbury (Scholastic)
• The Land of Neverendings, Kate Saunders (Faber & Faber)
• Outwalkers, Fiona Shaw (Fickling)
• They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera (Simon & Schuster Children’s)
• The Survival Game, Nicky Singer (Hodder Children’s)
• The Empty Grave, Jonathan Stroud (Corgi Children’s)
• The Last Chance Hotel, Nicki Thornton (Chicken House)
• Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Jessica Townsend (Orion Children’s)
• The Beast Player, Nahoko Uehashi (Pushkin Children’s)
• Skeleton Tree, Kim Ventrella (Macmillan Children’s)
• The Wren Hunt, Mary Watson (Bloomsbury)
• The 1,000 Year Old Boy, Ross Welford (HarperCollins Children’s)
• A Far Away Magic, Amy Wilson (Macmillan Children’s)

Greenaway Medal

• The Adventures of the Egg Box Dragon, Richard Adams, illustrated by Alex T. Smith (Hodder Children’s)
• Unplugged, Steve Antony (Hodder Children’s)
• The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse, Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen (Walker)
• The Great Race, Christopher Corr (Frances Lincoln Children’s)
• The Wizards of Once, Cressida Cowell (Hodder Children’s)
• Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki, Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love (Walker)
• The Grotlyn, Benji Davies (HarperCollins Children’s)
• Tiny Little Rocket, David Fickling, illustrated by Richard Collingridge (David Fickling)
• A Werewolf Named Oliver James, Nicholas John Frith (Alison Green)
• Myth Match, Good Wives and Warriors (Laurence King)
• Is it a Mermaid?, Candy Gourlay, illustrated by Francesca Chessa (Otter-Barry)
• Mary’s Monster, Lita Judge (Wren & Rook)
• Witchfairy, Brigitte Minne, illustrated by Carll Cneut (Book Island)
• Space Tortoise, Ross Montgomery, illustrated by David Litchfield (Faber & Faber)
• Mrs Noah’s Pockets, Jackie Morris, illustrated by James Mayhew (Otter-Barry)
• Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover, Markus Motum (Walker)
• Cinderella of the Nile, Beverley Naidoo, illustrated by Marjan Vafaeian (Tiny Owl)
• Hortense and the Shadow, Natalia O’Hara, illustrated by Lauren O’Hara (Puffin)
• Night Flights, Philip Reeve, illustrated by Ian McQue (Scholastic)
• Goth Girl and the Sinister Symphony, Chris Riddell (Macmillan Children’s)
• Once Upon a Wild Wood, Chris Riddell (Macmillan Children’s)
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Illustrated Edition, J.K. Rowling, illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill (Bloomsbury)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling, illustrated by Jim Kay (Bloomsbury)
• Nimesh the Adventurer, Ranjit Singh, illustrated by Mehrdokht Amini (Lantana)
• I Want to Be in a Scary Story, Sean Taylor, illustrated by Jean Jullien (Walker)
• Riding a Donkey Backwards, Sean Taylor & Khayaal Theatre, illustrated by Shirin Adl (Otter-Barry)
• Hansel and Gretel, Bethan Woollvin (Two Hoots)