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Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards 2020 shortlists announced

The eight-strong shortlists for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, the UK’s oldest book awards for children and young people have now been revealed. Selected by volunteer Youth Librarians from longlists of 20 books per Medal, these titles reflect the very best in children’s writing and illustration published in the UK.

With books promoting environmentalism, acceptance, kindness and bravery, the Awards’ mission ‘to inspire and empower the next generation to shape a better world through books and reading’ is mirrored across this year’s list.

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Carnegie Medal shortlist 2020

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These eight fantastic novels have been shortlisted for the 2020 Carnegie Medal.

A boy comes to terms with his identity as a mixed-race gay teen - then at university he finds his wings as a drag artist, The Black Flamingo.

Teenager Bri wants to pursue her dream of being a rap star but her family troubles keep getting in the way

A teenage girl battles the Alaskan wilderness to save a crashlanded alien from authorities who are trying to capture him.

Nicky and Kenny find themselves in danger when they get lost on the Yorkshire Moors in a snowstorm.

The daughter of a lighthouse keeper discovers a magical world when she is sent to work as a maid at the big house.

Voyages in the underworld of Orpheus Black

A conscientious objector suffering from delusions due to a head injury searches Blitz era London for his estranged brother, who is missing after a bombing.

A Filipino-American teenager heads to the Philippines to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.

Two young people find themselves thrown together as they struggle to survive in the middle of the ocean after separately surviving shipwrecks.

Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist 2020

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Eight beautifully illustrated books shortlisted for the 2020 Kate Greenaway Medal.

A mother polar bear looks after her inquisitive cubs in her den through the Arctic winter while they wait for the coming of Spring.

Lyrical text describes how a girl and her father play a final song for the valley that will become flooded once the dam being built has been finished.

Twenty-five illustrated short stories exploring the relationship between humans and animals.

Through the story of one of the last children to be born there, relays the way of life of the people on the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda before the final evacuation of the inhabitants in 1930.

When a strange-looking animal arrives pulling a big suitcase, the other animals are curious. What on earth could be inside that suitcase? A teacup? Maybe. A table and chair? Perhaps. A whole home and hillside with trees?