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Greder’s ‘Diamonds’ longlisted for Kate Greenaway Medal

In the UK, Swiss-born long-time Australian resident Armin Greder has made the longlist for the 2022 Kate Greenaway Medal for outstanding achievement in children’s illustration, announced along with the longlist for the Carnegie Medal for outstanding children’s writing.

Greder, a multiple CBCA award nominee, was longlisted for his picture book Diamonds (A&U), which was among several Australian books nominated for the Kate Greenaway and Carnegie medals.

The books shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal are:

  • While You’re Sleeping (illus by John Broadley, written by Mick Jackson, Pavilion)
  • Drawn Across Borders (George Butler, Walker)
  • The Midnight Fair (illus by Mariachiara Di Giorgio, written by Gideon Sterer, Walker)
  • Wild Child (illus Barry Falls, written by Dara McAnulty, Macmillan Children’s)
  • A Cat Called Waverley (Debi Gliori, Otter-Barry Books)
  • Too Much Stuff (Emily Gravett, Two Hoots)
  • Diamonds (Armin Greder, A&U)
  • Over the Shop (illus by Qin Leng, written by JonArno Lawson, Walker)
  • Long Way Down (illus by Danica Novgorodoff, written by Jason Reynolds, Faber)
  • The Invisible (Tom Percival, S&S)
  • Milo Imagines the World (illus by Christian Robinson, written by Matt de la Pena, Two Hoots)
  • Shu Lin’s Grandpa (illus by Yu Rong, written by Matt Goodfellow, Otter-Barry Books)
  • I Talk Like a River (illus by Sydney Smith, written by Jordan Scott, Walker)
  • The House by the Lake (illus by Britta Teckentrup, written by Thomas Harding, Walker Studio)
  • The Wanderer (Peter Van den Ende, Pushkin Children’s).

The books shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for an outstanding book for children and young people are:

  • October, October (Katya Balen, illus by Angela Harding, Bloomsbury)
  • Musical Truth (Jeffrey Boakye, illus by Ngadi Smart, Faber)
  • We Were Wolves (Jason Cockcroft, Andersen Press)
  • Guard Your Heart (Sue Divin, Macmillan Children’s)
  • When the Sky Falls (Phil Earle, Andersen Press)
  • When Life Gives You Mangoes (Kereen Getten, Pushkin Children’s)
  • The Climbers (Keith Gray, Barrington Stoke)
  • Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town (Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, Faber)
  • The Wolf Road (Richard Lambert, Everything With Words)
  • Rat (Patrice Lawrence, OUP)
  • The Crossing (Manjeet Mann, Penguin)
  • Grow (Luke Palmer, Firefly Press)
  • The Valley of Lost Secrets (Lesley Parr, Bloomsbury)
  • Tsunami Girl (Julian Sedgwick, illustrated by Chie Kutsuwada, Guppy Books)
  • Concrete Rose (Angie Thomas, Walker)
  • Cane Warriors (Alex Wheatle, Andersen Press)
  • In the Wild Light (Jeff Zentner, Andersen Press)
  • Punching the Air (Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam, HarperCollins).

Presented annually by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), the awards are the UK’s longest-running book awards for children and young people. The shortlists will be announced in March with the winners to follow in June.

Australian artist and writer Shaun Tan was the recipient of the 2020 Kate Greenaway Medal for his book Tales of the Inner City, also published by Allen & Unwin. The winners of last year’s medals were American Jason Reynolds and Canadian Sydney Smith.

For more information, see the awards website.

 

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