The Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration are awarded to books that give an outstanding reading experience through writing and illustration in books for children and young people.
The Devon SLS held three wonderful Carnegie events this year two celebrating the Carnegie Medal for Writing and one celebrating the Carnegie Medal for Illustration. Each shadowing group brought their own ideas and presentation style to create an entertaining morning for all in attendance.
The events celebrating the Carnegie Writing Medal were held at Exmouth CC and Pilton CC, Barnstaple. These brought together 14 shadowing groups from across Devon and gave them the opportunity to champion their favourite book. Our guest Tia Fisher, author of Crossing the Line and winner of last year’s Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice Medal for Writing, enthused everyone with her talk about her love of poetry and her journey into authorship. Pupils voted for the most inspiring presentation; Blundell’s won with Little Bang at Exmouth whilst South Molton CC won with The King of Nothing at Pilton.
Pathfield school hosted the Carnegie Illustration event and 5 primary schools joined them to show their amazing artwork, a detailed diorama, perform poems and shared their own journeys of discovery, all inspired by this year’s shortlisted books. Their overall favourite was The Invisible Story illustrated by Wen Hsu Chen and written by Jaime Gamboa.
The official winner for the Carnegie Medal for Writing was Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald. Nathanael Lessore won the Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice Medal for Writing with The King of Nothing.
The Carnegie Medal for Illustration was won by Olivia Lomenech Gill with her illustrations for Clever Crow, written by Chris Butterworth. Theo Parish won the Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice Medal for Illustration choice with Home Body.
