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 | Tim BowlerWinner of the Carnegie Medal
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Winners of the Carnegie MedalThe Carnegie Medal was established in 1937 and is presented annually to an outstanding book published in the United Kingdom. Initially it was limited to English writers whose books were published in England, but since 1969 any book written in English and published first, or concurrently, in the United Kingdom has been eligible. All winners are shown below. The date is the year that the book was published. The award is presented during the summer of the following year. | Year | Author | Title | | 2010 | Neil Gaiman | The Graveyard Book | | 2009 | Siobhan Dowd | Bog Child | | 2008 | Philip Reeve | Here Lies Arthur | | 2007 | Meg Rosoff | Just in Case | | 2005 | Mal Peet | Tamar | | 2004 | Frank Cottrell Boyce | Millions | | 2003 | Jennifer Donnelly | A Gathering Light | | 2002 | Sharon Creech | Ruby Holler | | 2001 | Terry Pratchett | The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents | | 2000 | Beverley Naidoo | The Other Side Of Truth | | 1999 | Aidan Chambers | Postcards From No Man's Land | | 1998 | David Almond | Skellig | | 1997 | Tim Bowler | River Boy | | 1996 | Melvin Burgess | Junk | | 1995 | Philip Pullman | Northern Lights | | 1994 | Theresa Breslin | Whispers in the Graveyard | | 1993 | Robert Swindells | Stone Cold | | 1992 | Anne Fine | Flour Babies | | 1991 | Berlie Doherty | Dear Nobody | | 1990 | Gillian Cross | Wolf | | 1989 | Anne Fine | My War with Goggle Eyes | | 1988 | Geraldine McCaughrean | Pack of Lies | | 1987 | Susan Price | The Ghost Drum | | 1986 | Berlie Doherty | Granny Was a Buffer Girl | | 1985 | Kevin Crossley-Holland | Storm | | 1984 | Margaret Mahy | The Changeover | | 1983 | Jan Mark | Handles | | 1982 | Margaret Mahy | The Haunting | | 1981 | Robert Westall | The Scarecrows | | 1980 | Peter Dickinson | City of Gold | | 1979 | Peter Dickinson | Tulku | | 1978 | David Rees | The Exeter Blitz | | 1977 | Gene Kemp | The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler | | 1976 | Jan Mark | Thunder and Lightnings | | 1975 | Robert Westall | The Machine-Gunners | | 1974 | Mollie Hunter | The Stronghold | | 1973 | Penelope Lively | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe | | 1972 | Richard Adams | Watership Down | | 1971 | Ivan Southall | Josh | | 1970 | Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen | The God Beneath the Sea | | 1969 | K. M. Peyton | The Edge of the Cloud | | 1968 | Rosemary Harris | The Moon in the Cloud | | 1967 | Alan Garner | The Owl Service | | 1966 | - No award - | | 1965 | Philip Turner | The Grange at High Force | | 1964 | Sheena Porter | Nordy Bank | | 1963 | Hester Burton | Time of Trial | | 1962 | Pauline Clarke | The Twelve and the Genii | | 1961 | Lucy Boston | A Stranger at Green Knowe | | 1960 | I. W. Cornwall | The Making of Man | | 1959 | Rosemary Sutcliff | The Lantern Bearers | | 1958 | Philippa Pearce | Tom's Midnight Garden | | 1957 | William Mayne | A Grass Rope | | 1956 | C. S. Lewis | The Last Battle | | 1955 | Eleanor Farjeon | The Little Bookroom | | 1954 | Ronald Welch | Knight Crusader | | 1953 | Edward Osmond | A Valley Grows Up | | 1952 | Mary Norton | The Borrowers | | 1951 | Cynthia Harnett | Nicholas and the Wool-Pack | | 1950 | Elfrida Vipont Foulds | The Lark on the Wing | | 1949 | Agnes Allen | The Story of Your Home | | 1948 | Richard Armstrong | Sea Change | | 1947 | Walter de la Mare | Collected Stories for Children | | 1946 | Elizabeth Goudge | The Little White Horse | | 1945 | - No award - | | 1944 | Eric Linklater | The Wind on the Moon | | 1943 | - No award - | | 1942 | BB [Denys Watkins-Pitchford] | The Little Grey Men | | 1941 | Mary Treadgold | We Couldn't Leave Dinah | | 1940 | Kitty Barne | Visitors from London | | 1939 | Eleanor Doorly | Radium Woman | | 1938 | Noel Streatfeild | The Circus Is Coming | | 1937 | Eve Garnett | The Family from One End Street | | 1936 | Arthur Ransome | Pigeon Post |
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