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Do you remember any of these books?
(45 Posts)The Carnegie medal is awarded tomorrow - the oldest and most prestigious award for children's books in the country.
While we're waiting to find out who's won this year, we thought it might be fun to look at the list of previous winners and see how many (if any...) we remember?
How many have stood the test of time?
And any glaring omissions?
Here are those Carnegie winners in full....
2011 Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men, Walker Books
2010 Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, Bloomsbury
2009 Siobhan Dowd, Bog Child, David Fickling
2008 Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur, Scholastic
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 Philippa 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, OUP
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, Faber
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
What a great list! My favourite was We Couldn't Leave Dinah, and I also loved the Dark Materials trilogy. I also loved the omission in 1966 as there was no book of sufficient quality. 
Have read 18 on the list..either myself, to my DDs or through work.. but so many more that were good enough to be winners out there ..must be very difficult to choose!
Philippa Pearce's A dog so small was a big favourite in our house.
Excellent list. The one glaring omission is Ruth Thomas. She wrote six or so books about London schoolchildren, two of the best being The Runaways and The Class that Went Wild. Perfect for children in years 5&6.
Just remembered Stig of the Dump!
I loved Thunder and Lightnings by the late Jan Mark. It was written in Norfolk dialect which took me back to my childhood.
Four of my favourites are in there - the Little White Horse - how I longed to be Maria Merryweather and live in that tower, Toms Midnight Garden- such a brilliant concept - I re read these regularly!
The borrowers - again such an amazing story, and I love all of the Narnia Books, and sobbed at the last battle when I realised they had died, but what a brilliant way CS Lewis used to explain the abstract concepts of Christianity.
I had forgotten all about the family from one end street
I also adore Robert Westall, but the machine gunners /scarecrows are not my favourite of his, that goes to Blitz cat ( I urge you to read it if you haven't already )
As a child I also loved the Millie Molly Mandy Stories
Tom's Midnight Garden, The Owl Service and The Last Battle (as part of the chronicles of Narnia books are all remembered and loved.
There was another book that I have a strong memory of, called " Marianne Dreams" I've never met anyone else who remembers reading it.
I do, phoenix. It was a wonderful book, surreal even - she was very ill, wasn't she? Remember the moving stones? There was a follow-up book, Marianne and Mark - good, but not nearly as good as the first.
What does OUP stand for ?
Oxford University Press
Thanks for ans. I wonder if that makes it a good book or just vprinted by them. (Sunshine)
Another two huge omissions are any of the books by the Ahlbergs - Peepo, The Jolly Postman and so on.
Bernard Ashley is also supern. He's written so many brilliant books for ages ranging from young primary, to, more recently, teenagers.
I'm surprised that Enid Blyton isn't here. The Treasure Hunters was the first book I can remember reading as a child nearly fifty years ago.
IAN , just for interest sake MR N has 400 Enid Blyton"s and in actual fact she only wrote to our knowledge 500.
Sooo he is doing quite well i would say , it is amazing how the prices have risen
'only wrote' 500 made me smile 
I loved Enid Blyton
Do you discuss films on Gransnet?
I was an avid reader throughout childhood but recognise only a few of those books so must have been reading the wrong books. Read nearly all Enid Blyton starting with the Faraway Folk series Noel Streatfied any school story I could get my hands on Little women, Anne of Green Gables, Just William, etc but none on that list
Supernana there is a films thread for you to read and comment on.
Bluebelle I agree, I never stopped reading as a child but never read more than 5 of those on the list.I did see The Owl Service on tv though, very atmospheric.
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