The shortlists for this year's Carnegie Medal for children's writing and Kate Greenaway Medal for illustrated children's books have been announced.
The shortlisted titles are:
Carnegie Medal nominees:
Gatty's Tale (Kevin Crossley-Holland, Orion)
Ruby Red (Linzi Glass, Penguin)
Crusade (Elizabeth Laird, Macmillan)
Apache (Tanya Landman, Walker)
Here Lies Arthur (Philip Reeve, Scholastic)
What I Was (Meg Rosoff, Penguin)
Finding Violet Park (Jenny Valentine, HarperCollins)
Kate Greenaway Medal nominees:
Silly Billy (Anthony Browne, Walker Books)
Penguin (Polly Dunbar, Walker Books)
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears (Emily Gravett, Macmillan)
Monkey and Me (Emily Gravett, Macmillan)
The Lost Happy Endings (Jane Ray and Carol Ann Duffy, Bloomsbury)
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (Chris Riddell, Macmillan)
Banana! (Ed Vere, Puffin)
The winners will be announced on 26 June.
This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker
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