The nominations list for the Carnegie this year is a
whopping 76 titles long, the longest ever (see below and note: we don’t follow
the Kate Greenaway, which is for picture books). There’s a bit of a process
shake-up this year too, one which I welcome and tciks boxes for all the 'stakeholders'. Last year, the nominations list
was the longlist. That’s changed. This year, the longlist will be selected by the judges from the nominations list
in February 2014 and a shortlist will be announced in March 2014. The winner
will be announced in June 2014.
There are plenty of books on this list that appeal to us
which we look forward to reading between now and June 2014 (and some of them,
no doubt, after that!). Between Little M and myself, we’ve already read and
reviewed 15 and we could pick a few for the shortlist from those. We’ve started
about 9 of the others. I doubt we’ll get through all 76.
So far, some very entertaining and thought-provoking reads.
I loved Phoenix but think it might fall down on some criteria for the
Carnegie but I’m delighted to see
it on the Kate Greenaway list.
Favourites for the Carnegie medal so far
- Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, The Child's Elephant
- Cooper, Susan, Ghost Hawk
- Kurti, Richard, Monkey Wars
- Pitcher, Annabel, Ketchup Clouds
- Stead, Rebecca, Liar and Spy
1. Almond, David, Mouse
Bird Snake Wolf (Walker Books)
2. Almond, David, The
Boy Who Swam with Piranhas (Walker Books)
3. Barber, Elke, Is
Daddy Coming Back in a Minute?: Explaining Sudden Death to Pre-School Children
in Words They Can Understand (Elke Barber)
4. Beasley, Andrew, The
Claws of Evil (Usborne Books)
5. Berry, Julie, All
the Truth That's in Me (Templar)
6. Black, Holly, Doll
Bones (Doubleday Children's Books)
7. Blackman, Malorie, Noble Conflict (Doubleday Children's Books)
8. Bowler, Tim, Sea
of Whispers (Oxford University Press)
9. Bradford, Chris, Bodyguard:
Hostage (Puffin Books)
10. Brooks, Kevin, The
Bunker Diary (Puffin Books)
11. Bryce, Celia, Anthem
for Jackson Dawes (Bloomsbury)
12. Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, The Child's Elephant (David Fickling Books)
13. Carthew, Natasha, Winter
Damage (Bloomsbury)
14. Colfer, Eoin, The
Reluctant Assassin (Puffin Books)
15. Cooper, Susan, Ghost Hawk (Bodley
Head Children's Books)
16. Cossanteli,
Veronica, The Extincts (Chicken House)
17. Cousins, Dave, Waiting
for Gonzo (Oxford University Press)
18. Creech, Sharon, The
Great Unexpected (Andersen Press)
19. Crocket, S. D., One
Crow Alone (Macmillan Children's Books)
20. Cross, Gillian, After
Tomorrow (Oxford University Press)
21. Crossan, Sarah, Breathe
(Bloomsbury)
22. De Quidt, Jeremy, The
Feathered Man (David Fickling Books)
23. Dennis, H.L., The
Knights of Neustria (Hodder Children's Books)
24. Diamand, Emily, Ways
to See a Ghost (Templar)
25. Dickinson, Peter, In
the Palace of the Khans (Peter Dickinson Books)
26. Dockrill, Laura, Darcy Burdock (Corgi
Children's Books)
27. Dowswell, Paul, Eleven
Eleven (Bloomsbury)
28. Drewery, Kerry, A
Dream of Lights (HarperCollins Children's Books)
29. Earle, Phil, Heroic
(Puffin Books)
30. Fine, Anne, Blood Family
(Doubleday Children's Books)
31. Fisher, Catherine, The Obsidian Mirror (Hodder
Children's Books)
32. Flood, C. J., Infinite
Sky (Simon & Schuster Children's Books)
33. Gibbons, Alan, Raining
Fire (Indigo)
34. Harris, Carol, Adventures
of the Chickalloon: A Bird's Eye View of Earth (Pentre Publications)
35. Jarratt, Laura, By
Any Other Name (Electric Monkey)
36. Jones, Gareth P., Constable
and Toop (Hot Key Books)
37. Jones, Rob Lloyd, Wild
Boy (Walker Books)
38. Kessler, Liz, North
of Nowhere (Orion Children's Books)
39. Kuehn, Stephanie, Charm
and Strange (Electric Monkey)
40. Kurti, Richard, Monkey Wars (Walker
Books)
41. LaFleur, Suzanne, Listening
for Lucca (Puffin Books)
42. Lake, Nick, Hostage
Three (Bloomsbury)
43. LaBan, Elizabeth, The Tragedy Paper (Doubleday Children's Books)
44. Mayhew Julie, Red Ink (Hot
Key Books)
45. McCaughrean,
Geraldine, The Positively Last Performance (Oxford University
Press)
46. McDowell, Nigel, Tall
Tales from Pitch End (Hot Key Books)
47. McFall, Claire, Ferryman
(Templar)
48. McGowan, Anthony, Brock
(Barrington Stoke)
49. McKay, Hilary, Binny
For Short (Hodder Children's Books)
50. McNeal, Tom, Far
Far Away (Jonathan Cape)
51. Morris, Jackie, East
of the Sun, West of the Moon (Frances Lincoln Children's Books)
52. Mulligan, Andy, The
Boy With Two Heads (David Fickling Books)
53. Murdoch, Emily, If You Find Me
(Indigo)
54. Mussi, Sarah, Seige
(Hodder Children's Books)
55. Pass, Emma, ACID
(Corgi Children's Books)
56. Pitcher, Annabel, Ketchup Clouds (Indigo) (+ book group)
57. Pratchett, Terry, Dodger
(Doubleday Children's Books)
58. Prue, Sally, Song
Hunter (Oxford University Press)
59. Robinson, Jon, Nowhere
(Puffin Books)
60. Rundell,
Katherine, Rooftoppers (Faber Children's Books)
61. Said, S. F., Phoenix
(David Fickling Books)
62. Sepetys, Ruta, Out
of the Easy (Puffin Books)
63. Shearer, Alex, The
Cloud Hunters (Hot Key Books)
64. Smale, Holly, Geek
Girl (HarperCollins Children's Books)
65. Stead, Rebecca, Liar and Spy
(Andersen Press)
66. Stiefvater,
Maggie, The Raven Boys (Scholastic)
67. Stroud, Jonathan, Lockwood
& Co: The Screaming Staircase (Doubleday Children's Books)
68. Sutcliffe,
William, The Wall (Bloomsbury)
69. Syson, Lydia, A World Between Us (Hot Key Books) (+ book group)
70. Torday, Piers, The
Last Wild (Quercus)
71. Watts, Helen, One
Day in Oradour (A & C Black)
72. Wein, Elizabeth, Rose
Under Fire (Electric Monkey)
73. Whyman, Matt, The
Savages (Hot Key Books)
74. Wooding, Chris, Silver
(Scholastic)
75. Yancey, Rick, The
5th Wave (Penguin Books)
76. Yangsze, Choo, The
Ghost Bride (Hot Key Books)
What do you think?
I'm also trying to work through the list, but it's a daunting task! Just finished The Wall which I really enjoyed, and am planning to read Ghost Hawk. Honoured to have made your 'short list so far' though!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! Monkey Wars was quite different to lots of other recently published children's fiction in the UK (of which I'm aware) and it's very thought-provoking.
DeleteI don't think we'll get through the whole of the nominations list. Although we consider reading every title, we tend to gravitate towards the titles that appeal to us most and it looks like mine and your reading lists are similar. I loved Ghost Hawk and am looking forward to The Wall.
Our Carnegie reading plans are taking shape. Look out for 1 December 2013!