The Yoto Carnegies celebrate outstanding achievement in children’s writing and illustration and are unique in being judged by librarians, with respective Shadowers’ Choice Medals voted for by children and young people.
16 books have been shortlisted in total, with eight in each category for the Carnegie Medal for Writing and Carnegie Medal for Illustration; whittled down from the 36 longlisted titles by the expert judging panel which includes 12 librarians from CILIP: the library and information association’s Youth Libraries Group.
The 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing shortlist is (alphabetical by author surname):
- The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander (Andersen Press)
- The Song Walker by Zillah Bethell (Usborne)
- Away with Words by Sophie Cameron (Little Tiger)
- The Boy Lost in the Maze by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Kate Milner
(Otter-Barry Books) - Choose Love by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Petr Horáček (Graffeg)
- Crossing the Line by Tia Fisher (Bonnier Books UK)
- Safiyyah’s War by Hiba Noor Khan (Andersen Press)
- Steady for This by Nathanael Lessore (Bonnier Books UK)
The 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration shortlist is (alphabetical by illustrator surname):
- The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker (Walker Books)
- April’s Garden by Catalina Echeverri, written by Isla McGuckin (Graffeg)
- Lost by Mariajo Ilustrajo (Quarto)
- The Wilderness by Steve McCarthy (Walker Books)
- To the Other Side by Erika Meza (Hachette Children’s Group)
- The Midnight Panther by Poonam Mistry (Bonnier Books UK)
- The Bowerbird by Catherine Rayner, written by Julia Donaldson (Macmillan Children’s Books)
- The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish by Chloe Savage (Walker Books)