The longlist for the 2019 CILIP Carnegie Longlist has been announced. This and the Kate Greenaway Medal are the two oldest UK book awards for youth. The medals are judged by children’s librarians. Here are the 20 finalists who made the longlist, selected from over 250 books that were nominated:
The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan
Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf
The Colour of the Sun by David Almond
A Different Boy by Paul Jennings
Hilary McKay’s Fairy Tales by Hilary McKay
The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson
The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane
Moonrise by Sarah Crossan
Mud by Emily Thomas
My Side of the Diamond by Sally Gardner
Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki by Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Rebound by Kwame Alexander
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
Station Zero by Philip Reeve
Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nichols
The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan
