CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2009
Boyce, Frank Cottrell Cosmic
Macmillan (Age range: 8+)
ISBN: 9781405054645
Brooks, Kevin Black Rabbit Summer
Puffin (Age range: 14+)
ISBN: 9780141381459
Colfer, Eoin Airman
Puffin (Age range: 9+)
ISBN: 9780141383354
Dowd, Siobhan Bog Child
David Fickling Books (Age range: 12+)
ISBN: 9780385614269
Gray, Keith Ostrich Boys
Definitions (Age range: 12+)
ISBN: 9780099456575
Ness, Patrick The Knife of Never Letting Go
Walker (Age range: 14+)
ISBN: 9781406310252
Thompson, Kate Creature of the Night
Bodley Head (Age range: 14+)
ISBN: 9780370329291
CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlist 2009
Barrett, Angela (text by Paul Gallico) The Snow Goose
Hutchinson (Age range: 10+)
9780091893828
Craste, Marc (text by Helen Ward) Varmints
Templar (Age range: 7+)
9781840113235
Docherty, Thomas Little Boat
Templar (Age range: 3+)
9781840118261
Graham, Bob How to Heal a Broken Wing
Walker (Age range: 3+)
9781406307160
Jeffers, Oliver The Way Back Home
Harper Collins (Age range: 3+)
9780007182282
McKean, Dave (text by David Almond) The Savage
Walker (Age range: 10+)
9781406308150
Rayner, Catherine Harris Finds His Feet
Little Tiger Press (Age range: 3+)
9781845065898
Wormell, Chris Molly and the Night Monster
Jonathan Cape (Age range: 3+)
9780224070737
The winners will be announced on Thursday 25 June at a special award ceremony, taking place at BAFTA HQ in central London.
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4boyz!
A very strong Carnegie list this year I think. All of them very readable (I haven't yet read the Kate Thompson), and not quite as full of gloom and despair as some previous lists. I would be happy with any of these as a winner.