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Crossan, Riddell win 2016 Carnegie, Greenaway medals

The UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has announced the winners of the 2016 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals, with Sarah Crossan’s One (Bloomsbury) winning the Carnegie, while illustrator and UK children’s laureate Chris Riddell has won his third Kate Greenaway Medal for The Sleeper and the Spindle (written by Neil Gaiman, Bloomsbury). Crossan’s YA novel about conjoined twins, told in free-verse chapters, was described by chair of judges Sioned Jacques as ‘poignant and thought-provoking’. ‘The judges found it deeply moving, beautifully observed, unusual but perfectly crafted’, said Jacques, who also described Riddell as being at the ‘height of his powers’. ‘The more one looks at his pictures the more one notices: subtlety and complexity, the clever use of such a limited palette, the daring use of solid black areas—no space is wasted.’ The annual Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals are the UK’s oldest awards for youth literature, and the winning author and illustrator will each receive £500 (A$984) worth of books to donate to their local library. For the first time this year, a £5000 (A$9835) cash prize was also presented to both winners, which was previously only awarded to the Kate Greenaway recipient. Both titles were chosen from shortlists of eight. One title from each shortlist is also awarded the Amnesty CILIP Honour, which recognises a title that ‘most distinctively illuminates, upholds or celebrates freedoms’. This year’s honours went to Robin Talley for Lies We Tell Ourselves (MiraInk) from the Carnegie Medal shortlist and Ross Collins for There’s a Bear on My Chair (Nosy Crow) from the Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist. For more information about the winners, click here.

 

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