Carnegie Medal for Illustration checklist
Every Carnegie Medal for Illustration book on our site, newest first. Print it and tick off the ones you have read.
| Read | Year | Title | By | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Wiggling Words | Kate Rolfe | Winner | |
| 2026 | Freedom Braids | Monique Duncan | Shortlist | |
| 2026 | Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel | William Golding, adapted by Aimée de Jongh | Shortlist | |
| 2026 | The Endless Sea | Chi Thai | Shortlist | |
| 2026 | The Paper Bridge | Joelle Veyrenc | Shortlist | |
| 2026 | The Playdate | Uje Brandelius | Shortlist | |
| 2026 | The Sleeper Train | Mick Jackson | Shortlist | |
| 2026 | Wildful | Kengo Kurimoto | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Clever Crow | Chris Butterworth | Winner | |
| 2025 | Flying High | Cao Wenxuan | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Grey | Laura Dockrill | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Homebody | Theo Parish | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | I Love Books | Mariajo Ilustrajo | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Letters in Charcoal | Irene Vasco | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | The Invisible Story | Jaime Gamboa | Shortlist | |
| 2025 | Wolf and Bear | Kate Rolfe | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | The Tree and the River | Aaron Becker | Winner | |
| 2024 | April's Garden | Isla McGuckin | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | Lost | Mariajo Ilustrajo | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | The Bowerbird | Julia Donaldson | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | The Midnight Panther | Poonam Mistry | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish | Chloe Savage | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | The Wilderness | Steve McCarthy | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | To the Other Side | Erika Meza | Shortlist | |
| 2023 | Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear | Trang Nguyen | Winner | |
| 2023 | Alte Zachen: Old Things | Ziggy Hanaor | Shortlist | |
| 2023 | Rescuing Titanic | Flora Delargy | Shortlist | |
| 2023 | The Comet | Joe Todd-Stanton | Shortlist | |
| 2023 | The Visible Sounds | Jianling Yin | Shortlist | |
| 2023 | The Worlds We Leave Behind | A.F. Harrold | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | Long Way Down | Jason Reynolds | Winner | |
| 2022 | Drawn Across Borders | George Butler | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | I Talk Like a River | Jordan Scott | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | Milo Imagines the World | Matt de la Peña | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | Shu Lin's Grandpa | Matt Goodfellow | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | The Midnight Fair | Gideon Sterer | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | The Wanderer | Peter Van den Ende | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | Too Much Stuff | Emily Gravett | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | Small in the City | Sydney Smith | Winner | |
| 2021 | Arlo The Lion Who Couldn't Sleep | Catherine Rayner | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | Hike | Pete Oswald | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | How The Stars Came To Be | Poonam Mistry | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | I Go Quiet | David Ouimet | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | It's a No-Money Day | Kate Milner | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | Starbird | Sharon King-Chai | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | The Bird Within Me | Sara Lundberg | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | Tales from the Inner City | Shaun Tan | Winner | |
| 2020 | Child of St Kilda | Beth Waters | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | Mary and Frankenstein | Linda Bailey | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | The Dam | David Almond | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | The Iron Man | Ted Hughes | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | The Suitcase | Chris Naylor-Ballesteros | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | The Undefeated | Kwame Alexander | Shortlist | |
| 2020 | You're Snug with Me | Chitra Soundar | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | The Lost Words | Robert Macfarlane | Winner | |
| 2019 | Beyond the Fence | Maria Gulemetova | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | Julian is a Mermaid | Jessica Love | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | Ocean Meets Sky | Eric Fan and Terry Fan | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | Suffragette: The Battle for Equality | David Roberts | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | The Day War Came | Nicola Davies | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse | Mac Barnett | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | You're Safe With Me | Chitra Soundar | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | Town is by the Sea | Joanne Schwartz | Winner | |
| 2018 | A First Book of Animals | Nicola Davies | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | King of the Sky | Nicola Davies | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | Night Shift | Debi Gliori | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | The Song from Somewhere Else | A.F. Harrold | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | Thornhill | Pam Smy | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | Under the Same Sky | Britta Teckentrup | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | There is a Tribe of Kids | Lane Smith | Winner | |
| 2017 | A Great Big Cuddle | Michael Rosen | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone | J. K. Rowling | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | The Journey | Francesca Sanna | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | The Marvels | Brian Selznick | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | The Wolves of Currumpaw | William Grill | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | Tidy | Emily Gravett | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | Wild Animals of the North | Dieter Braun | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | The Sleeper and the Spindle | Neil Gaiman | Winner | |
| 2016 | Captain Jack and the Pirates | Peter Bently | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | Footpath Flowers | JonArno Lawson | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | Once Upon an Alphabet | Oliver Jeffers | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | Sam and Dave Dig a Hole | Mac Barnett | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | Something About a Bear | Jackie Morris | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | There's a Bear on My Chair | Ross Collins | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | Willy's Stories | Anthony Browne | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | Shackleton's Journey | William Grill | Winner | |
| 2015 | Dark Satanic Mills | Marcus Sedgwick and Julian Sedgwick | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse | Chris Riddell | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | Jim's Lion | Russell Hoban | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | Rules of Summer | Shaun Tan | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | Smelly Louie | Catherine Rayner | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | The Promise | Nicola Davies | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | Tinder | Sally Gardner | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | This is Not My Hat | Jon Klassen | Winner | |
| 2014 | Mouse Bird Snake Wolf | David Almond | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | Oliver | Birgitta Sif | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | The Dark | Lemony Snicket | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | The Day the Crayons Quit | Drew Daywalt | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | The Paper Dolls | Julia Donaldson | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | Where My Wellies Take Me | Michael Morpurgo and Clare Morpurgo | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | Black Dog | Levi Pinfold | Winner | |
| 2013 | Again! | Emily Gravett | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | I Want My Hat Back | Jon Klassen | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | Just Ducks! | Nicola Davies | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | King Jack and the Dragon | Peter Bently | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | Lunchtime | Rebecca Cobb | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | Oh No, George! | Chris Haughton | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | Pirates 'n' Pistols | Chris Mould | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness | Winner | |
| 2012 | Can We Save the Tiger? (nonfiction) | Martin Jenkins | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | Puffin Peter | Petr Horáček | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | Slog's Dad | David Almond | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | Solomon Crocodile | Catherine Rayner | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | The Gift | Carol Ann Duffy | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | There Are No Cats in This Book | Viviane Schwarz | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | Wolf Won't Bite! | Emily Gravett | Shortlist | |
| 2011 | FArTHER | Grahame Baker-Smith | Winner | |
| 2011 | April Underhill Tooth Fairy | Bob Graham | Shortlist | |
| 2011 | Big Bear, Little Brother | Carl Norac | Shortlist | |
| 2011 | Cloud Tea Monkeys | Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham | Shortlist | |
| 2011 | Ernest | Catherine Rayner | Shortlist | |
| 2011 | Jim | Hilaire Belloc, 1907 | Shortlist | |
| 2011 | Me and You | Anthony Browne | Shortlist | |
| 2011 | The Heart and the Bottle | Oliver Jeffers | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | Harry and Hopper | Margaret Wild | Winner | |
| 2010 | Crazy Hair | Neil Gaiman | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | Leon and the Place Between | Angela McAllister | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | Millie's Marvellous Hat | Satoshi Kitamura | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | The Dunderheads | Paul Fleischman | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | The Great Paper Caper | Oliver Jeffers | Shortlist | |
| 2010 | There Are Cats in This Book | Viviane Schwarz | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | Harris Finds His Feet | Catherine Rayner | Winner | |
| 2009 | How to Heal a Broken Wing | Bob Graham | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | Little Boat | Thomas Docherty | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | Molly and the Night Monster | Chris Wormell | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | The Savage | David Almond | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | The Snow Goose | an edition of the 1941 novella by Paul Gallico | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | The Way Back Home | Oliver Jeffers | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | Varmints | Helen Ward | Shortlist | |
| 2008 | Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears | Emily Gravett | Winner | |
| 2008 | Banana! | Ed Vere | Shortlist | |
| 2008 | Monkey and Me | Emily Gravett | Shortlist | |
| 2008 | Ottoline and the Yellow Cat | Chris Riddell | Shortlist | |
| 2008 | Penguin | Polly Dunbar | Shortlist | |
| 2008 | Silly Billy | Anthony Browne | Shortlist | |
| 2008 | The Lost Happy Endings | Carol Ann Duffy | Shortlist | |
| 2007 | The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon | Mini Grey | Winner | |
| 2007 | Augustus and His Smile | Catherine Rayner | Shortlist | |
| 2007 | Orange Pear Apple Bear | Emily Gravett | Shortlist | |
| 2007 | Scoop! An Exclusive by Monty Molenski | John Kelly and Cathy Tincknell | Shortlist | |
| 2007 | The Elephantom | Ross Collins | Shortlist | |
| 2007 | The Emperor of Absurdia | Chris Riddell | Shortlist | |
| 2005 | Wolves | Emily Gravett | Winner | |
| 2005 | Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You | Holly Black | Shortlist | |
| 2005 | Jinnie Ghost | Berlie Doherty | Shortlist | |
| 2005 | Little Red: A Fizzingly Good Yarn | Lynn Roberts | Shortlist | |
| 2005 | Lost and Found | Oliver Jeffers | Shortlist | |
| 2005 | Mirrormask | Neil Gaiman | Shortlist | |
| 2005 | Russell the Sheep | Rob Scotton | Shortlist | |
| 2005 | Traction Man is Here | Mini Grey | Shortlist | |
| 2004 | Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver | the 1726 classic Gulliver's Travels adapted by Martin Jenkins | Winner | |
| 2004 | Dougal's Deep-Sea Diary | Simon Bartram | Shortlist | |
| 2004 | Guess Who's Coming For Dinner? | Cathy Tincknell | Shortlist | |
| 2004 | Michael Rosen's Sad Book | Michael Rosen | Shortlist | |
| 2004 | One More Sheep | Mij Kelly | Shortlist | |
| 2004 | The Boat | Helen Ward | Shortlist | |
| 2004 | The Whisperer | Nick Butterworth | Shortlist | |
| 2003 | Ella's Big Chance | Shirley Hughes | Winner | |
| 2003 | Always and Forever | Alan Durant | Shortlist | |
| 2003 | Beegu | Alexis Deacon | Shortlist | |
| 2003 | Bob Robber and Dancing Jane | Andrew Matthews | Shortlist | |
| 2003 | The Pea and the Princess | Mini Grey | Shortlist | |
| 2003 | The Shape Game | Anthony Browne | Shortlist | |
| 2003 | The Wolves in the Walls | Neil Gaiman | Shortlist | |
| 2003 | Two Frogs | Chris Wormell | Shortlist | |
| 2002 | Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child | Bob Graham | Winner | |
| 2002 | That Pesky Rat | Lauren Child | Commended | |
| 2002 | Albert le Blanc | Nick Butterworth | Shortlist | |
| 2002 | Man on the Moon | Simon Bartram | Shortlist | |
| 2002 | Pants | Giles Andrae | Shortlist | |
| 2002 | The Cockerel and the Fox | Helen Ward | Shortlist | |
| 2002 | The Kiss That Missed | David Melling | Shortlist | |
| 2002 | Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book? | Lauren Child | Shortlist | |
| 2001 | Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter | Richard Platt | Winner | |
| 2001 | Fix-it Duck | Jez Alborough | Highly commended | |
| 2001 | Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball | Vicki Churchill | Highly commended | |
| 2001 | Katje the Windmill Cat | Gretchen Woelfle | Shortlist | |
| 2001 | Let's Get a Pup! | Bob Graham | Shortlist | |
| 2001 | Silver Shoes | Caroline Binch | Shortlist | |
| 2001 | Tatty Ratty | Helen Cooper | Shortlist | |
| 2001 | The Witch's Children | Ursula Jones | Shortlist | |
| 2000 | I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato | Lauren Child | Winner | |
| 2000 | Willy's Pictures | Anthony Browne | Highly commended | |
| 2000 | Crispin: The Pig Who Had It All | Ted Dewan | Commended | |
| 2000 | Beware of the Storybook Wolves | Lauren Child | Shortlist | |
| 2000 | Fairy Tales | Berlie Doherty | Shortlist | |
| 2000 | Snail Trail | Ruth Brown | Shortlist | |
| 1999 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | an edition of the 1865 classic by Lewis Carroll | Winner | |
| 1999 | Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page | Richard Platt | Highly commended | |
| 1999 | Clarice Bean, That's Me! | Lauren Child | Highly commended | |
| 1999 | Weslandia | Paul Fleischman | Commended | |
| 1999 | Days Like This | Simon James | Shortlist | |
| 1999 | The Sea-Thing Child | Russell Hoban | Shortlist | |
| 1999 | The Storm | Kathy Henderson | Shortlist | |
| 1999 | Wombat Goes Walkabout | Michael Morpurgo | Shortlist | |
| 1998 | Pumpkin Soup | Helen Cooper | Winner | |
| 1998 | Come on Daisy! | Jane Simmons | Highly commended | |
| 1998 | The Lion and the Unicorn | Shirley Hughes | Highly commended | |
| 1998 | I Love You, Blue Kangaroo | Emma Chichester Clark | Shortlist | |
| 1998 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | an edition of the 1950 classic by C. S. Lewis | Shortlist | |
| 1998 | Voices in the Park | Anthony Browne | Shortlist | |
| 1998 | Zagazoo | Quentin Blake | Shortlist | |
| 1997 | When Jessie Came Across the Sea | Amy Hest | Winner | |
| 1997 | Ginger | Charlotte Voake | Highly commended | |
| 1997 | Queenie the Bantam | Bob Graham | Highly commended | |
| 1997 | A Small Miracle | Peter Collington | Shortlist | |
| 1997 | Book of Nonsense | Michael Rosen | Shortlist | |
| 1997 | Mucky Pup | Ken Brown | Shortlist | |
| 1997 | Unicorns! Unicorns! | Geraldine McCaughrean | Shortlist | |
| 1997 | Willy the Dreamer | Anthony Browne | Shortlist | |
| 1996 | The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed | Helen Cooper | Winner | |
| 1996 | Down by the River | Grace Hallworth | Highly commended | |
| 1996 | Ishtar and Tammuz: A Babylonian myth of the seasons | Christopher Moore | Commended | |
| 1996 | Mr Bear to the Rescue | Debi Gliori | Shortlist | |
| 1996 | Oops! | Colin McNaughton | Shortlist | |
| 1996 | The Duck That Had No Luck | Jonathan Long | Shortlist | |
| 1996 | The Smallest Whale | Elisabeth Beresford | Shortlist | |
| 1996 | The Tale of the Monstrous Toad | Ruth Brown | Shortlist | |
| 1995 | The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey | Susan Wojciechowski | Winner | |
| 1995 | The Little Boat | Kathy Henderson | Highly commended | |
| 1995 | Clown | Quentin Blake | Commended | |
| 1995 | Blodin the Beast | Michael Morpurgo | Shortlist | |
| 1995 | Here Come the Aliens | Colin McNaughton | Shortlist | |
| 1995 | Nothing | Mick Inkpen | Shortlist | |
| 1995 | Tattybogle | Sandra Horn | Shortlist | |
| 1994 | Way Home | Libby Hathorn | Winner | |
| 1994 | So Much | Trish Cooke | Highly commended | |
| 1994 | Something Else | Kathryn Cave | Commended | |
| 1994 | Catkin | Antonia Barber | Shortlist | |
| 1994 | Gregory Cool | Caroline Binch | Shortlist | |
| 1994 | King Kong | from the 1932 novelised story of King Kong | Shortlist | |
| 1994 | The Happy Prince | from the fairy tale by Oscar Wilde | Shortlist | |
| 1994 | The Hunter | Paul Geraghty | Shortlist | |
| 1993 | Black Ships Before Troy | Rosemary Sutcliff | Winner | |
| 1993 | The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig | Eugene Trivizas | Highly commended | |
| 1993 | War Game | Michael Foreman | Commended | |
| 1993 | A Quiet Night In | Jill Murphy | Shortlist | |
| 1993 | Beware Beware | Susan Hill | Shortlist | |
| 1993 | The Bear Under the Stairs | Helen Cooper | Shortlist | |
| 1993 | The Garden | Dyan Sheldon | Shortlist | |
| 1992 | Zoo | Anthony Browne | Winner | |
| 1992 | Hue Boy | Rita Phillips Mitchell | Highly commended | |
| 1992 | The Pig in the Pond | Martin Waddell | Highly commended | |
| 1992 | Incredible Cross-Sections | Richard Platt | Shortlist | |
| 1992 | The Dog That Dug | Jonathan Long | Shortlist | |
| 1992 | The Honey Hunters | Francesca Martin | Shortlist | |
| 1992 | Treasure Island | an edition of the 1883 classic by Robert Louis Stevenson | Shortlist | |
| 1991 | The Jolly Christmas Postman | Allan Ahlberg | Winner | |
| 1991 | Farmer Duck | Martin Waddell | Highly commended | |
| 1991 | Amazing Grace | Mary Hoffman | Commended | |
| 1991 | Anancy and Mr Dry-Bone | Fiona French | Shortlist | |
| 1991 | East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon | translated by George W. Dasent | Shortlist | |
| 1991 | The Story of Christmas | Jane Ray | Shortlist | |
| 1991 | Window | Jeannie Baker | Shortlist | |
| 1990 | The Whales' Song | Dyan Sheldon | Winner | |
| 1990 | Dr Xargle's Book of Earth Tiggers | Jeanne Willis | Highly commended | |
| 1990 | A Christmas Carol | an edition of the 1843 classic by Charles Dickens | Commended | |
| 1990 | The Mousehole Cat | Antonia Barber | Commended | |
| 1990 | Noah's Ark | Jane Ray | Shortlist | |
| 1990 | Rosie's Babies | Martin Waddell | Shortlist | |
| 1990 | The Shepherd Boy | Kim Lewis | Shortlist | |
| 1989 | War Boy: A Country Childhood | Michael Foreman | Winner | |
| 1988 | Can't You Sleep Little Bear? | Martin Waddell | Winner | |
| 1987 | Crafty Chameleon | Mwenye Hadithi | Winner | |
| 1986 | Snow White in New York | Fiona French | Winner | |
| 1985 | Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady | Selina Hastings | Winner | |
| 1984 | Hiawatha's Childhood | Longfellow | Winner | |
| 1983 | Gorilla | Anthony Browne | Winner | |
| 1982 | Long Neck and Thunder Foot | Helen Piers | Winner | |
| 1982 | Sleeping Beauty and other favourite fairy tales | traditional | Winner | |
| 1981 | The Highwayman | Alfred Noyes | Winner | |
| 1980 | Mr Magnolia | Quentin Blake | Winner | |
| 1979 | Haunted House | Jan Pieńkowski | Winner | |
| 1978 | Each Peach Pear Plum | Allan Ahlberg | Winner | |
| 1977 | Dogger | Shirley Hughes | Winner | |
| 1976 | The Post Office Cat | Gail E. Haley | Winner | |
| 1975 | Horses in Battle | Victor Ambrus | Winner | |
| 1975 | Mishka | Victor Ambrus | Winner | |
| 1974 | The Wind Blew | Pat Hutchins | Winner | |
| 1973 | Father Christmas | Raymond Briggs | Winner | |
| 1972 | The Woodcutter's Duck | Krystyna Turska | Winner | |
| 1971 | The Kingdom Under the Sea and other stories | Joan Aiken | Winner | |
| 1970 | Mr Gumpy's Outing | John Burningham | Winner | |
| 1969 | The Dragon of an Ordinary Family | Margaret Mahy | Winner | |
| 1969 | The Quangle Wangle's Hat | Edward Lear | Winner | |
| 1968 | A Dictionary of Chivalry | Grant Uden | Winner | |
| 1967 | Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary | Charles Keeping | Winner | |
| 1966 | Mother Goose Treasury | traditional | Winner | |
| 1965 | The Three Poor Tailors | Victor Ambrus | Winner | |
| 1964 | Shakespeare's Theatre | C. Walter Hodges | Winner | |
| 1963 | Borka: The Adventures of a Goose With No Feathers | John Burningham | Winner | |
| 1962 | ABC | Brian Wildsmith | Winner | |
| 1961 | Mrs Cockle's Cat | Philippa Pearce | Winner | |
| 1960 | Old Winkle and the Seagulls | Elizabeth Rose | Winner | |
| 1959 | A Bundle of Ballads | Ruth Manning-Sanders from the Child Ballads | Winner | |
| 1959 | Kashtanka | Anton Chekhov | Winner | |
| 1957 | Mrs Easter and the Storks | V. H. Drummond | Winner | |
| 1956 | Tim All Alone | Edward Ardizzone | Winner |
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