Jennings, Graham nominated for 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal

In the UK, several Australian authors and illustrators have been nominated for the 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medals.

Paul Jennings has been nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing for The Lorikeet Tree (A&U). For the illustration medal, Bob Graham has been nominated for The Concrete Garden (Walker Books), Jeannie Baker has been nominated for Desert Jungle (Walker Books) and Levi Pinfold has been nominated for Paradise Sands (Walker).

A total of 129 books were nominated for this year’s medals. The Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing, awarded to a book written in English for children and young people that sparks an outstanding reading experience, includes 69 nominated books. The Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration (previously known as the Kate Greenaway Medal), which celebrates an outstanding reading experience through illustration, includes 60 nominations.

Each nominated book is read by every member of the judging panel, which this year includes 12 librarians from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals’ Youth Libraries Group. Longlists will be announced on 13 February. The shortlists will be revealed on 13 March, after which young people will begin ‘shadowing’ the judging process ahead of the announcement of the winners on 20 June.

The 2023 winners were Manon Steffan Ros, who won the medal for writing for The Blue Book of Nebo (Firefly Press), and Jeet Zdung, who won the medal for illustration for Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear (Kingfisher). For more information about the awards, click here.

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