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KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL
Ian Andrew The Boat (Text by Helen Ward)
Russell Ayto One More Sheep (Mij Kelly)
Simon Bartram Dougal�s Deep-Sea Diary
Quentin Blake Michael Rosen�s Sad Book (Michael Rosen)
Nick Butterworth The Whisperer
John Kelly Guess Who�s Coming For Dinner? (Cathy Tincknell)
Chris Riddell Jonathan Swift�s Gulliver (Martin Jenkins)
CARNEGIE MEDAL
Gennifer Choldenko Al Capone Does My Shirts
Eva Ibbotson The Star of Kazan
Philip Pullman The Scarecrow and His Servant
Re the Carnegie selection-a good list on the whole with an obvious bias this year towards a child rather than young adult readership. How, though, could they have left out Geraldine McCaughrean's 'Not the End of the World', a powerful and moving indictment of intolerance and the dangers of religious certainty? Surely this should have been preferred to the Philip Pullman, which, while being quite charming, is scarcely an example of the author working at his full stretch.
I would like to see 'Al Capone'win, though i suspect they will go for the Sharon Creech.