YOTO CARNEGIES SHORTLIST
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The Yoto Carnegies, the UK’s longest running and best-loved book awards for children and young people, announced their 2024 shortlists at the London Book
Fair in March. The Yoto Carnegies celebrate outstanding achievement in children’s writing and illustration and are unique in being judged by librarians, with respective Shadowers’ Choice Medals voted for by children and young people.
16 books have been shortlisted in total, with eight in each category for the Carnegie Medal for Writing and Carnegie Medal for Illustration; whittled down from the 36 longlisted titles by the expert judging panel which includes 12 librarians from CILIP: the library and information association’s Youth Libraries Group.
Maura Farrelly, Chair of Judges for The Yoto Carnegies 2024, said: “The judges have worked incredibly hard to select 16 outstanding books; books that celebrate the very best of writing and illustration for children and young people. These are books to empower young readers, and for some will provide validation and refuge; stories of courage, of characters striving to find themselves and their place in the world, often in difficult or dangerous situations. We are excited to share these lists with shadowing groups and young readers, and very much look forward to reading their reviews and discovering their winners, alongside our own, at the announcement in June.”
The winners will be announced and celebrated on Thursday 20 June at a live and streamed ceremony at the Cambridge Theatre and will each receive a specially commissioned golden medal and a
£5,000 Colin Mears Award cash prize.
The winners of the Shadowers’ Choice Medals – voted for and awarded by the children and young people – will also be presented at the ceremony. They will also receive a golden medal and, for the first time this year, £500 worth of books to donate to a library of their choice.
As the official book supplier, Scholastic are working with CILIP to donate shortlist packs to 10 schools in disadvantaged areas to allow them to also take part in the shadowing and widen the reach of engagement with the awards. Applications will be open from 22 – 28 March with packs to be sent out immediately afterwards to the selected schools.
Scholastic will again be presenting a week of events celebrating the shortlist on their Scholastic Schools Live platform from Monday 15 April. Each 30-minute event will feature a shortlisted author or illustrator as well as a behind-the-scenes event with the judges. Schools and libraries will be able to sign up for free on the Scholastic website.
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