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Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration (2023-)
Kate Greenaway Medal (1955-2022)
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Notes

  • The Kate Greenaway Medal is annually by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) in the United Kingdom. It is awarded for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people.

    (Source: CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards website, http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/)

  • Following a nomination process, works are then longlisted and shortlisted before the winners are announced.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2020

winner y separately published work icon Tales from the Inner City Shaun Tan , Shaun Tan (illustrator), Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2018 14152497 2018 selected work single work short story poetry prose art work

'Where can we live if not in each other's shadow? World-renowned artist Shaun Tan applies his unique imagination to a reflection on the nature of humans and animals, and our urban coexistence. From crocodile to frog, tiger to bee, this is a dark and surreal exploration of the perennial love and destruction we feel and inflict—of how animals can save us, and how our lives are forever entwined, for better or for worse. Tales from the Inner City is a masterful work, bearing all of Shaun Tan's trademark wit and poignancy in both its prose and exquisite illustrations.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Year: 2010

winner y separately published work icon Harry and Hopper Margaret Wild , Freya Blackwood (illustrator), Malvern : Omnibus Books , 2009 Z1560898 2009 single work picture book children's 'Harry and Hopper do everything together. Hopper helps Harry with his homework and Harry helps Hopper escape from his weekly bath. At night, Hopper sneaks past Dad and goes to sleep in Harry's bed. One day, Harry comes home from school and his dog isn't there to greet him. Harry will never know the feel or the smell of Hopper again. But love is strong, and Hopper will stay with Harry as long as he needs him ...' (Libraries Australia record) for Freya Blackwood's illustrations.

Year: 2002

winner y separately published work icon Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child Bob Graham , Bob Graham (illustrator), Cambridge : Candlewick Press , 2002 Z967874 2002 single work picture book children's (taught in 1 units)

'Annabelle's dad says she'll never find fairies in cement and weeds. But Annabelle does. She finds a tiny fairy child. Jethro Byrde, and his family. And together they spend a magical afternoon ..."'

(Source: Back cover)

Awarded in July 2003.

Year: 1994

winner y separately published work icon Way Home Libby Hathorn , Gregory Rogers (illustrator), Milsons Point : Random House , 1994 Z798083 1994 single work picture book children's (taught in 2 units) A young boy who lives in a hole in a wall in a big city makes a dangerous night trip to bring a stray cat back to his little cell for company. for the illustrations by Gregory Rogers

Year: 1987

winner Adrienne Kennaway For Crafty Chameleon (1987).

Works About this Award

Shaun Tan : 'We’re Not Being Mean to Animals – but There Is Evil in Obliviousness' Sian Cain (interviewer), 2020 single work interview
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 19 June 2020;

'What would happen if bears sued humanity and fish left the sea? The author-illustrator of Tales from the Inner City on animal rights, veganism and winning the Kate Greenaway medal'

Shaun Tan Becomes First BAME Author to Win Kate Greenaway Medal Alison Flood , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 18 June 2020;

'Tales from the Inner City wins illustration prize, while Anthony McGowan takes the Carnegie medal for his novel Lark' 

London Wait for Children's Authors Penelope Davie , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 - 28 May 2006; (p. 26)
Author Throws Book at PM Michelle Griffin , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 19 July 2003; (p. 6)
Reports on Bob Graham's decision to donate the money he received as the winner of the 2003 Kate Greenaway Medal to the aid of refugeees in Australia and England.
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