The Yoto Carnegies have a good time excellent achievement in youngsters’s writing and illustration and are distinctive in being judged by youngsters’s and youth librarians, with the respective Shadowers’ Selection Medals voted for by youngsters and younger individuals.
Matt and I’ve each been judges for the awards, many moons in the past, and it’s and terribly rigorous course of involving studying and re-reading dozens of books and forming correct arguments as to why issues must be shortlisted (or not…the truth is typically I used to be very keen about *not* letting one thing get additional…), judges can’t simply say “that is my favorite as a result of it’s cute”. So we love seeing the longlist after which shortlist announcement and imagining the conversations that went on for them to be the chosen few! I positively have favourites on this 12 months’s lists:
The 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing longlist is (alphabetical by creator surname):
· The Mild in Every part by Katya Balen (Bloomsbury Kids’s Books)
· When Shadows Fall by Sita Brahmachari, illustrated by Natalie Sirett (Little Tiger)
· Medusa by Jessie Burton, illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill (Bloomsbury Kids’s Books)
· The Everlasting Return of Clara Hart by Louise Finch (Little Island)
· Needle by Patrice Lawrence (Barrington Stoke)
· I Should Betray You by Ruta Sepetys (Hodder Kids’s Books)
· The Blue Guide of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros (Firefly Press)
The 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration longlist is (alphabetical by illustrator surname):
· Rescuing Titanic illustrated and written by Flora Delargy (Huge Eyed Editions)
· Alte Zachen: Outdated Issues illustrated by Benjamin Phillips, written by Ziggy Hanaor (Cirada Books)
· The Worlds We Go away Behind illustrated by Levi Pinfold, written by A. F. Harrold (Bloomsbury Kids’s Books)
· The Seen Sounds illustrated by Yu Rong, written by Yin Jianling (UCLan Publishing)
· The Comet illustrated and written by Joe Todd-Stanton (Flying Eye Books)
· Saving Sorya: Chang and the Solar Bear illustrated by Jeet Zdung, written by Trang Nguyen (Kingfisher)
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