The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals for 2020 were awarded this week, in- like most things of late- a ceremony slightly different to what we’re used to seeing. Both are chosen by librarians, the former for a work of fiction for children or young people, and the latter for an illustrator of a written piece… Read More CKG 2020
Regular as clockwork, our Carnegie shadow morning was upon us even though it only felt like yesterday that we were eagerly awaiting the initial nominations list (that was way back in November- can you believe?). Like every other keen reader around the UK, on June 18th we were glued to twitter, awaiting the announcement of… Read More CKG Day 2019
It’s the book-version of Oscar time for children’s authors and illustrators! A lot of prizes seem to come up at this time of year. Here are a few we always look forward to hearing about, starting with perhaps the most obvious… The CILIP Carnegue and Kate Greenaway Award CKG shortlists were published on Tuesday and the… Read More And the Winner Is…
The longlists of the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards are out today, and what a terrific selection of titles they are! Seeing these fantastic books all together brings home what a wealth of quality children and young people’s literature we are blessed with. Now it is down to us to ensure these books get to… Read More 2019 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Longlists
On June 18th, we joined keen readers up and down the country in eagerly awaiting the announcement of who’d won this year’s Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals. As with previous years, we were in school, discussing books and celebrating with shadowing groups from a few high schools across Norfolk. Our Librarian, Harriet, has shared her… Read More CKG Day 2018
Exactly one month today- Monday 18th June- the winners of this year’s Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards will be announced, and the awards cycle (which began with the nominations list back in November 2017) will be over. In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months, you can find this year’s… Read More One month until CKG…!
Norfolk Libraries have now opened their recruitment of young volunteers aged 13-25 to help with the Mischief Makers Summer Reading Challenge. Volunteering sessions take place between during the school holidays, from mid-July and to the beginning of September. They ask for a minimum commitment of 2 hours per week although there can be scope to… Read More Volunteer this Summer
Only a month ago, we were discussing the longlists for this year’s CKG awards and now-in the blink of an eye!- the final shortlists are here. Announced last week, fifteen titles made the final cut across the two awards, whittled down from a longlist of forty. What a difficult decision to make; we don’t envy the… Read More CILIP CKG Shortlists 2018
While we were off enjoying half-term, the longlists for this year’s Carnegie and Kate Greenaway awards were announced; though these will become shortlists in just a few week’s time (15th March!), we thought we’d share them here so you can see which brilliant books made the cut at this point. The forty longlisted titles are… Read More 2018 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Longlists
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