11 months ago I predicted that the brilliant 24 Seconds from Now would be in the Carnegie shortlist, but this year I’m also happy to have five of my other predictions make it too! #Carnegies #Carnegieshortlist #books

The Carnegies 2026 longlists for writing and illustration are now live, get reading & shadowing! carnegies.co.uk/medals/ #Carnegies #Carnegies2026 See you at #LBF #LBF26 for the shortlists...

The Carnegies 2026 longlists Perhaps the most prestigious prize for the best of children’s literature in the UK is a Carnegie medal.

Celebrating the very best of recent children’s fiction, the #Carnegies for the year are here! 📚✨ #substack #booksky

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Very good news! Hats off to
‘Rob Walton’ & brava to Reena Makwana and her fantastic illustrations.Especially big love and thanks to Emma, Georgia, James & now Ella (not forgetting Gosia!) @theemmapress.bsky.social The best publisher & people. NOW BUY THIS BOOK! #carnegies

#Vanderbilts #Carnegies #Gettys #Morgans #Hursts
#Rockafellers #Yale #Harvard #Wall-Street #Stocks
#Capitalism #Greed #Rich #Bankers
#American #Whites #Blacks #Wars

“You know that there's not a person on this earth that's worth over a hundred million dollars that came by that money honestly?”

'My award-winning book was ignored by 60 agents' Margaret McDonald has won the the prestigious book prize for her debut novel Glasgow Boys.

Anyway that’s 2025 CARNEGIE-WINNING Margaret McDonald to you! 🔥❤️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿#UKYA #Carnegies

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Mary Trump: The Lucky Lass from Stornoway The daughter of a Gaelic-speaking fisherman on a remote Scottish island emigrated to New York, worked as a maid in the Carnegie Mansion, and married Fred Trump. Her son would become a tycoon like his ...

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Yes, #Trump'smother was an #immigrant & a domestic #servant for the #Carnegies.

#Maid in the USA.

Podcast | Elizabeth Hutchinson Elizabeth and friends talk about school libraries

Greatly enjoyed being interviewed for the Engaging and Empowering School Libraries podcast last night on my work on the #Carnegies - episode up now! www.elizabethahutchinson.com/podcast/epis...

Paperback editions of Homebody by Theo Parish alongside The Wolf Trials by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and the Pokémon £1 World Book Day title

Picked up my book order from my fab local indie bookshop today! 🥳

#Carnegies #Greenaway #YesImGoingToContinueCallingItTheGreenawayForever
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Announced today! The @carnegiemedals.bsky.social are teaming up with England’s Book Town, for a FREE festival on 18 March with Carnegie Medal winner Joseph Coelho!

More info here: carnegies.co.uk/book-town-ta...

#Carnegies #BookFestival

My favourite bookmark and the one I use 95% of the time (well, it & 2 identical ones). @mattlibrarian.bsky.social & his missus got them for me when I started reading the nominations as a #Carnegies judge approx 10 years ago.

The nominations for 2025 are open! Find out what this means and how you can get involved at: carnegies.co.uk/nominations

#Carnegies nominations opened yesterday and close on the 27th September. If you are a CILIP member you can nominate 1 for each (& I can give you recs if you're not sure!)
Links to nomination forms:
Illustration: fs3.formsite.com/cilip/Carneg...
Writing: fs3.formsite.com/cilip/Carneg...
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