IN DEPTH


Medal winners pack an emotional punch


The winners of this year’s CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, and the Shadowers’ Choice Awards were announced at a ceremony earlier this month. With four categories and four different­


emotional­punch”­to­young­readers.


EACH year hundreds of books are nominated for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal, and each year a team of judges have the difficult task of picking winners. The Medals celebrate outstanding achievement in children’s writing and illustration respectively and are unique in being judged by librarians. This year judges were swayed by the emotional power of the two winning books, which both tell their stories through the eyes of children.


US Author and poet Jason Reynolds wins the Carnegie Medal for Look Both Ways (Knights Of), while Canadian Sydney Smith was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal for Small in the City (Walker Books). The Car- negie and Kate Greenaway Medals are the oldest and best-loved UK awards for Chil- dren’s books and they are complemented by the CKG Shadowing Scheme for children and young people. For the last three years the Winners Ceremony has included the Shadowers’ Choice Awards, giving young readers the chance to vote for their favour- ite books on the two shortlists. This year’s Shadowers’ Choice Awards went to Manjeet Mann for Run, Rebel (Penguin Random House Children’s) in the Carnegie category and Australian Sharon King-Chai for Starbird (Two Hoots) in the Kate Greenaway category. Look Both Ways is a series of individual, but interconnected stories that focus on the 15 minutes of childhood freedom on the walk home from school. It is the first victory


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­winners,­this­year’s­award­winners­brought­a­“powerful­


Rob Green (rob.green@cilip.org.uk) is Editor, Information Professional.


for Jason Reynolds, who was nominated in 2019 for Long Way Down. It also marks the first win for publisher Knights Of, which was only launched in 2017


Ellen Krajewski, Chair of the 2021 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals judging panel, said: “This year’s Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal winners are


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