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Clever Crow - prize-winning illustrated children's book

The Carnegies are long-running UK children’s book awards – they recognise outstanding reading experiences for writing and illustrating in books for children and young people. The Carnegie Medal for Illustration is the award for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people. More information is available on the Carnegies web page.This year's winner was Clever Crow written by Christine Butterworth and illustrated by Gill Lomenech. We now have a copy of this book in our library, so do come and borrow it to see the fabulous illustrations!In the library we are fortunate to have a number of the books which have won this illustration award in previous years.Becker, A. (2023) The tree and the river (winner of the 2024 prize)Nguyen, T. and Zdung, J. (2023) Saving Sorya: Chang and the sun bearPinfold, L. (2011) The black dogReynolds, J. and Novgorodoff, D. (2020) Long way down: the graphic novelSmith, L (2017) There is a tribe of kidsSmith, S. (2019) Small in the cityWe encourage all illustration, design and creative writings students to borrow and read the books. Explore them to discover the style of illustration, how the stories have been written and how the illustrations enhance the stories. …. and who knows, you could be a winner in future years!...

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Celebrating our students' degree shows

Each year final year students in our art and design programmes put on degree shows which showcase their practical work. Attending these degree shows is one of the highlights of the year for Suzie Williams, Academic Liaison Librarian for the School of Media and Creative Industries. “I love going to the degree shows each year and seeing the work of students who I have taught during their degree. I can often see themes in their work that echo conversations I have had with them earlier in their studies. What makes it really special is when students are invigilating the exhibition and get to chat with me about their work in situ.”Suzie picks up a copy of the degree show exhibition catalogues and adds them to the Library collections so that future students can see the nature of work produced by previous student cohorts. The exhibitions catalogues from the 2025 degree shows for BA Artist, Designer, Maker (Glass and Ceramics) and BA Fine Art are now in the St Peter's Library and can be borrowed. Catalogues from previous years are also available for loan....

Book illustration and writing awards - winners announced

The Carnegies are long-running UK children’s book awards which recognise outstanding reading experiences for writing and illustrating in books for children and young people. The Carnegie Medal for Illustration is the award for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people. The Carnegie Medal for Writing is awarded for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people. The winner's of the 2025 competition have been announced! More information is available on the Carnegies web page. Margaret McDonald was announced as the Carnegie Medal for Writing winner, the youngest in its almost ninety-year history for her “life changing and emotional” novel Glasgow Boys. This “honest” and “hopeful” story explores mental health, trauma, inequality and identity through the friendship between two boys who have grown up in foster care. The winner of the Carnegie Medal for Illustration is Olivia Lomenech Gill for Clever Crow, written by Chris Butterworth. This “innovative” and detailed non-fiction picture book illustrated in “earthy” watercolours, charcoal, gouache and collage encourages readers to look afresh at a fascinating, but often maligned, bird. The Carnegies celebrate achievement in children’s writing and illustration and are unique in being judged by a panel of children’s and youth librarians, including 14 librarians from CILIP: the library and information association’s Youth Libraries Group. [Text and images sourced from The Carnegies web site with permission. More details about the prizes, authors and illustrators are available on the Carnegies web pages]...

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