The longlists for the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals are announced today.

Here they are in full:

2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal longlist (alphabetical by author surname):

1. The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta, illustrated by Anshika Khullar (Hachette Children’s Group)
2. A Pocketful of Stars by Aisha Bushby (Egmont)
3. Toffee by Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury)
4. Becoming Dinah by Kit de Waal (Hachette Children’s Group)
5. Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo (Walker Books)
6. Monsters by Sharon Dogar (Andersen Press)
7. Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly (Hot Key Books)
8. Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee (Pushkin Children’s Books)
9. Nowhere on Earth by Nick Lake (Hachette Children’s Group)
10. Lark by Anthony McGowan (Barrington Stoke)
11. The Skylarks’ War by Hilary McKay (Macmillan Children’s Books)
12. No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen (Andersen Press)
13. Inkling by Kenneth Oppel (Walker Books)
14. Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay (Little Tiger)
15. Lampie written and illustrated by Annet Schaap and translated by Laura Watkinson (Pushkin Children’s Books)
16. Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black by Marcus Sedgwick and Julian Sedgwick, illustrated by Alexis Deacon (Walker Books)
17. The Boxer by Nikesh Shukla (Hachette Children’s Group)
18. On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (Walker Books)
19. Girl. Boy. Sea. by Chris Vick (Head of Zeus)
20. Paper Avalanche by Lisa Williamson (David Fickling Books)

2020 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal longlist (alphabetical by illustrator surname):

1. Captain Rosalie illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault, written by Timothée de Fombelle and translated by Sam Gordon (Walker Books)
2. Wisp: A Story of Hope illustrated by Grahame Baker Smith and written by Zana Fraillon, (Hachette Children’s Group)
3. Quill Soup illustrated by Dale Blankenaar and written by Alan Durant (Tiny Owl)
4. B is for Baby illustrated by Angela Brooksbank and written by Atinuke, (Walker Books)
5. And the Ocean Was Our Sky illustrated by Rovina Cai and written by Patrick Ness (Walker Books)
6. Fanatical About Frogs written and illustrated by Owen Davey (Flying Eye)
7. Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black illustrated by Alexis Deacon and written by Marcus Sedgwick and Julian Sedgwick (Walker Books)
8. Lubna and Pebble illustrated by Daniel Egneus and written by Wendy Meddour (Oxford University Press)
9. When Sadness Comes to Call written and illustrated by Eva Eland (Andersen Press)
10. The King Who Banned the Dark written and illustrated by Emily Haworth-Booth (Pavilion Children’s Books)
11. You’re Snug with Me illustrated by Poonam Mistry and written by Chitra Soundar (Lantana Publishing)
12. The Iron Man illustrated by Chris Mould and written by Ted Hughes, (Faber & Faber)
13. The Suitcase written and illustrated by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros (Nosy Crow)
14. The Undefeated illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Kwame Alexander (Andersen Press)
15. The Dam illustrated by Levi Pinfold and written by David Almond (Walker Books)
16. Mary and Frankenstein illustrated by Júlia Sardà and written by Linda Bailey (Andersen Press)
17. Little Wise Wolf illustrated by Hanneke Siemensma, written by Gijs Van der Hammen and translated by Laura Watkinson, (Book Island)
18. Tales from the Inner City written and illustrated by Shaun Tan (Walker Books)
19. Child of St Kilda written and illustrated by Beth Waters (Child’s Play)
20. Planetarium illustrated by Chris Wormell and written by Raman Prinja (Big Picture Press)

The shortlists for both the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals 2020 will be announced on Thursday 19th March 2020, with the winners being announced on Wednesday 17th June 2020 at a special daytime event at The British Library, hosted by University Challenge star and CILIP Library Champion, Bobby Seagull. The winners will each receive £500 worth of books to donate to their local library, a specially commissioned golden medal and a £5,000 Colin Mears Award cash prize.

Julia Hale, Chair of Judges, writes: “2020 was the first year of a new nomination procedure for both awards, reducing the number ofbooks eligible to be put forward for consideration by CILIP members from two titles to just one for each of the Medal categories of writing (Carnegie) and illustration (Kate Greenaway). Everyone who received a nomination should therefore be justly proud; their book is a precious and considered choice from a professional librarian. Although the total amount of nominations dropped from the epic 254 books of last year to ‘just’ 162, the judging experience was no less arduous and all-consuming for our volunteer judges, who give so much of their time and themselves to the process and ensure the ongoing legacy of these prestigious awards.

This year also marks the pilot for the revised criteria for the CILIP Carnegie medals for writing, focusing on an “outstanding reading experience”. It asks judges to reflect on experience and
representation in each work, the treatment of characters and plot and the potential resonance with its readership. We are thankful to Inclusive Minds’ Ambassadors who have helped to ensure
different perspectives from young voices continue to be heard throughout the course of the awards.”

The longlist for the 2020 Klaus Flugge Prize is announced today.

Now in its fifth year, the Klaus Flugge Prize is awarded to the most promising and exciting newcomer to children’s picture book illustration. It honours Klaus Flugge, founder of publisher Andersen Press and a supremely influential figure in picture books.

The judges for the 2020 prize are

• Mini Grey
• Meera Ghanshamdas, bookseller at Moon Lane Ink
• Jake Hope
• Pam Smy
• Jessica Love (2019 winner)

The panel will be chaired by Julia Eccleshare, director of the children’s programme of the Hay Festival.

The 2020 Klaus Flugge Prize longlist in full:

Look Up, Dapo Adeola, written by Nathan Bryan, editor Joe Marriott, designer Keren Greenfield (Puffin)
The Mist Monster, Kirsti Beautyman, editor Alison Green, designer Zoë Tucker (Alison Green Books)
Keith Among the Pigeons, Katie Brosnan, editor Sue Baker, designer Annie Kubler (Child’s Play)
Caspian Finds a Friend, Merrilees Brown, written by Jacqueline Veissid, editor Victoria Rock, designer Sara Gillingham (Chronicle Books)
Otto Blotter, Bird Spotter Graham Carter, editor Libby Hamilton, designer Rebecca Garrill (Andersen Press)
When Sadness Comes to Call, Eva Eland, editor Libby Hamilton, designer Rebecca Garrill (Andersen Press)
The Girl with Two Dads, Mel Elliott, editor Emma Dods, designer Abi Luffman (Egmont)
My Hair, Allen Fatimaharan, written by Hannah Lee, editor Alice Swan, designer Emma Eldridge (Faber & Faber)
The Star in the Forest, Helen Kellock, editor Anna Ridley, designer Aaron Hayden (Thames & Hudson)
Where is Your Sister?, Puck Koper, editor Suzanne Carnell, designer Jo Spooner (Two Hoots)
The Mole and the Hole, Brayden Kowalczuk, editor Katie Cotton, designer Zoë Tucker (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books)
Incredible Jobs You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of, Natalie Labarre, editor Victoria England, designer Holly Phillips (Nosy Crow)
On the Origin of Species, Sabina Radeva, editor Anna Barnes Robinson, designer Keren Greenfield (Puffin)
I Saw a Bee, Rob Ramsden, editor Janice Thomson, designer Goldy Broad (Scallywag Press)
One Fox: A Counting Thriller Book, Kate Read, editor Suzanne Carnell, designer Jo Spooner (Two Hoots)
Collecting Cats, Lorna Scobie, editors Sophie Cashell & Linas Alsenas, designer Strawberrie Donnelly (Scholastic)

The shortlist will be announced on 19 May 2020 by Mini Grey at a special public event at Foyles Charing Cross Road and the winner will be revealed on 16 September 2020.

More about the judges:

Born in a mini car in a car park in South Wales, Mini Grey worked as a theatre designer, then a primary school teacher, before studying for an MA in sequential design at Brighton University.
Mini’s first picture book for children, Egg Drop, a surreal story of an egg that dreams of being able to fly, was published in 2002. It established her as both a visually exciting illustrator of detailed, colourful artwork and a highly accomplished storyteller, who often narrates from an unusual, often edible, point of view, such as that of the pea in The Pea and the Princess (2003) the biscuit in Biscuit Bear (2004) – (winner of Nestlé Smarties Gold) – and the spoon in The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon (winner of the Kate Greenaway Award 2007). Traction Man is Here (2005) won the 2005 Boston Horn Book Award. Mini’s version of Hilaire Belloc’s cautionary tale of Jim (who runs away from his nurse and gets eaten by a lion) was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2011.  Other books by Mini include Hermelin, the story of a typing mouse detective, Space Dog, an intergalactic canine/feline romp set in the Outer Spooniverse, and The Bad Bunnies’ Magic Show. Her new book, Money-Go-Round, written by Roger McGough, will be published in February 2020.

Meera Ghanshamdas is the manager at Moon Lane Ink CIC, a social enterprise dedicated to raising equality in children’s books. Meera is passionate about driving forward change and progressing the conversation with regards to diversity and inclusion. She has spoken publicly at various institutions and conferences about diversity and managing a community interest company. Born in Hong Kong, she has lived in five countries, across three continents, before settling to live in London. Meera has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins.

Named as one of the UK’s top librarians of the future in the national Love Libraries campaign, Jake Hope is chair of the working party for Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, a post which oversees the running and strategic development of the awards. He is a children’s book and reading development consultant and has written extensively including chapters on books about reading development, the School Library Association publication around diversity and inclusion and previews for leading trade magazine The Bookseller.  He is currently working on Seeing Sense, a book about visual literacy.  Jake enjoys working creatively, has strong network links across the book trade and reading sector and is passionate about children’s books and promoting a love of reading and writing with young people and their families.  

Jessica Love won the 2019 Klaus Flugge Prize for her book Julian Is a Mermaid (Walker Books). She is an illustrator and a New York–based actor. She has a BA in studio art from the University of California, Santa Cruz, as well as a graduate degree from Juilliard. Jessica will revisit the world of her character Julian in Julian at the Wedding, releasing in October 2020.

Pam Smy has illustrated folktales, chapter books, nursery rhyme collections, picture books and novels, and now specialises in older end fiction. Pam’s first novel, Thornhill, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize and the Kate Greenaway Award in 2018. She has 18 years of art school teaching experience and has a passion for observational drawing and sketchbooks. 

The Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (the Lollies) celebrate the best and funniest children’s books in the UK and Ireland, asvoted for by children. 

The winners were announced yesterday. 

Picture Book Winner

Ten Fat Sausages by Michelle Robinson and Tor Freeman

Books for 6 – 8

The World’s Worst Children 3 by David Walliams and Tony Ross

Books for 9 – 13

I Bet I Can Make You Laugh by Joshua Seigal and Tim Wesson

Meg McLaren’s The Station Mouse (Andersen Press) has won the 2020 Bookbug Picture Book Prize after more than 13,000 children in Scotland cast their votes.

The Station Mouse by Meg McLaren

Check this previous post which highlighted the three shortlisted titles.

excerpted from a report in The Bookseller”

Scottish Book Trust runs the award with support from Browns Books for Students, celebrating the most popular new picture books by Scottish authors or illustrators. A free copy of three shortlisted books was given to the children as part of their Bookbug bag in November and an online vote then took place.

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Printmaker and illustrator McLaren, who gets £3,000 for her win, graduated with an MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. She now lives in Inverness and The Station Mouse is her third picture book.

She said: “It’s truly amazing that Scottish Book Trust give books to so many children and I was really excited to be included in the Bookbug Primary 1 Family Bag year. To win is an utter surprise, and it’s all the more special because I know it was the readers themselves who voted.”

Graphic Novel Wins Newbery Medal for the First Time

“New Kid,” by Jerry Craft, won the children’s literature prize, while “The Undefeated,” written by Kwame Alexander and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, won the Caldecott Medal.

Full NYT report: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/books/newbery-new-kid-jerry-craft-caldecott-undefeated-kwame-alexander.html

Here are the four titles shortlised in the Children’s Book category of the Costa Book Awards

The category winners will be announced on Monday 6th January 2020:

Asha & the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan (Chicken House)

Crossfire by Malorie Blackman (Penguin Books)

In the Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling (Chicken House)

Furious Thing by Jenny Downham (David Fickling Books)