Carnegie Award Winners

I have read many children's books in my time, but I wonder how many have been award winners? Here is the list of Carnegie Award Winners from the last 70 years ... the ones I have read are highlighted.

2007 Meg Rosoff, Just in Case, Penguin
2005 Mal Peet, Tamar, Walker Books
2004 Frank Cottrell Boyce, Millions, Macmillan
2003 Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light, Bloomsbury Children's Books
2002 Sharon Creech, Ruby Holler, Bloomsbury Children's Books
2001 Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, Doubleday
2000 Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth, Puffin
1999 Aidan Chambers, Postcards From No Man's Land, Bodley Head
1998 David Almond, Skellig, Hodder Children's Books
1997 Tim Bowler, River Boy, OUP
1996 Melvin Burgess, Junk, Andersen Press
1995 Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials: Book 1 Northern Lights, Scholastic
1994 Theresa Breslin, Whispers in the Graveyard, Methuen
1993 Robert Swindells, Stone Cold, H Hamilton
1992 Anne Fine, Flour Babies, H Hamilton
1991 Berlie Doherty, Dear Nobody, H Hamilton
1990 Gillian Cross, Wolf, OUP
1989 Anne Fine, Goggle-eyes, H Hamilton
1988 Geraldine McCaughrean, A Pack of Lies, OUP
1987 Susan Price, The Ghost Drum, Faber
1986 Berlie Doherty, Granny was a Buffer Girl, Methuen
1985 Kevin Crossley-Holland, Storm, Heinemann
1984 Margaret Mahy, The Changeover, Dent
1983 Jan Mark, Handles, Kestrel
1982 Margaret Mahy, The Haunting, Dent
1981 Robert Westall, The Scarecrows, Chatto & Windus
1980 Peter Dickinson, City of Gold, Gollancz
1979 Peter Dickinson, Tulku, Gollancz
1978 David Rees, The Exeter Blitz, H Hamilton
1977 Gene Kemp, The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler, Faber
1976 Jan Mark, Thunder and Lightnings, Kestrel
1975 Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners, Macmillan
1974 Mollie Hunter, The Stronghold, H Hamilton
1973 Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, Heinemann
1972 Richard Adams, Watership Down, Rex Collings
1971 Ivan Southall, Josh, Angus & Robertson
1970 Leon Garfield & Edward Blishen, The God Beneath the Sea, Longman
1969 Kathleen Peyton, The Edge of the Cloud, OUP
1968 Rosemary Harris, The Moon in the Cloud, Faber
1967 Alan Garner, The Owl Service, Collins
1966 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1965 Philip Turner, The Grange at High Force, OUP
1964 Sheena Porter, Nordy Bank, OUP
1963 Hester Burton, Time of Trial, OUP
1962 Pauline Clarke, The Twelve and the Genii, Faber
1961 Lucy M Boston, A Stranger at Green Knowe, Faber
1960 Dr I W Cornwall, The Making of Man, Phoenix House
1959 Rosemary Sutcliff, The Lantern Bearers, OUP
1958 Philipa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden, OUP
1957 William Mayne, A Grass Rope, OUP
1956 C S Lewis, The Last Battle, Bodley Head
1955 Eleanor Farjeon, The Little Bookroom, OUP
1954 Ronald Welch (Felton Ronald Oliver), Knight Crusader, OUP
1953 Edward Osmond, A Valley Grows Up
1952 Mary Norton, The Borrowers, Dent
1951 Cynthia Harnett, The Woolpack, Methuen
1950 Elfrida Vipont Foulds, The Lark on the Wing, OUP
1949 Agnes Allen, The Story of Your Home, Faber
1948 Richard Armstrong, Sea Change, Dent
1947 Walter De La Mare, Collected Stories for Children
1946 Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse, University of London Press
1945 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1944 Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon, Macmillan
1943 Prize withheld as no book considered suitable
1942 'BB' (D J Watkins-Pitchford), The Little Grey Men, Eyre & Spottiswoode
1941 Mary Treadgold, We Couldn't Leave Dinah, Cape
1940 Kitty Barne, Visitors from London, Dent
1939 Eleanor Doorly, Radium Woman, Heinemann
1938 Noel Streatfeild, The Circus is Coming, Dent
1937 Eve Garnett, The Family from One End Street, Muller
1936 Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post, Cape

The books I read in 2007 ...

I don't want to lose the list, but since it's on my other blog, I thought I'd copy it over here too. Also, I wondered how many I had read ...

(This is in reverse order ...)

28* From Ganglands to Promised Land - John Pridmore
27* Chicken with Plums - Marjane Sarpati
26* Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
25* A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
24* The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
23* Disgrace - JM Coetzee
22* The Outsider - Albert Camus
21* A Burnt-Out Case - Graham Greene
20* The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
19* The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
18* Northern Lights - Philip Pullman
17* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
16* Don't Tell Mummy - Toni Maguire
15* Knocked out by my nunga-nungas - Louise Rennison
14* The Boy Who Lost His Face - Louis Sacher
13* Checkmate - Malorie Blackman
12* Just in Case - Meg Rosoff
11* Dangerous Reality - Malorie Blackman
10* Wild Swans - Jung Chang
9* Nights at the Circus - Angela Carter
8* Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
7* After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
6* The Breast - Philip Roth
5* Silk - Alessandro Baricco
4* A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
3* Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
2* Like the Flowing River - Paulo Coelho
1* Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton

So, 28 books. Plus those academic books that I read for my Masters (Pass with Merit!) and other courses that I completed throughout the year. Which is not too bad, I suppose - about one a fortnight. And some real gems among them. I'm glad I decided to use "1001 Books to Read Before You Die" as an inspiration. Although some were better than others! Anyway, I wonder if I can beat that this year. Must read at least 30!

Misadventure in the Middle East by Henry Hemming

Henry Hemming is an artist who decided to travel around the Middle East with a friend, Al Braithwaite, and a car called Yasmine, not long after 9/11. They wanted to make art about the Middle East ... and soon discovered that there was not just one "Middle East" that could be summed up in the work. The book is a discovery of the vastly different people and places that Henry, Al, and, intermittently, Stephen and Georgie, made while passing through and exploring Turkey, Iran, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Iran, to name a few. It charts their adventures and misadventures. Being mistaken for terrorists, tramps, spies, and sometimes recognised as artists, meeting princesses, poor, soldiers, students, Hemming describes each step of the way as he and his friends find out more about Islam in the Middle East, and the artists who live and work there. Since the Second Iraq War started while they were out there, the book also contains some interesting political and cultural observations as well. Eye opening and informative.