Suzie Williams
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 bear
- Pinfold, L. (2011) The black dog
- Reynolds, J. and Novgorodoff, D. (2020) Long way down: the graphic novel
- Smith, L (2017) There is a tribe of kids
- Smith, S. (2019) Small in the city
We 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!
