CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals 2018 Longlist

The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals longlist are out now! While both are very extensive, if you are looking for a 'what should I read' list, you couldn't do any better. It is so pleasing to see so many of my author/illustrator friends on this list, and the Irish contingent is well represented.
On the CILIP Carnegie, we have such wonderful reads as Emma Carroll's 'Letters From The Lighthouse', Peter Bunzl with 'Cogheart', Maz Evans' Who Let The Gods Out', 'Goldenhand' and 'Frogkisser' by Garth Nix, Brian Conaghan and Sarah Crossan with 'We Come Apart'....the list is extensive, as I said. I do have one niggling concern about the CILIP Carnegie List. It has seemed, in recent years, rather YA heavy and I wonder if they should  distinguish the YA from the MG into a separate award? (Causing chaos everywhere I go!)
For the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration, it was fabulous to see Levi Pinfold nominated twice for both 'The Sercret Horses of Briar Hill' by Meghan Shepherd and ' Song From Somewhere Else' by A F Harrold. Also on the list are Petr Horacek for 'A First Book of Animals' by Nicola Davies, Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston with the stunning 'A Child of Books' (seriously...why don't you have this book?), Luke Pearson for Hilda and the Stone Forest and Birgitta Sif with 'Squish and Squeak's Noisy Day'.... and many other amazing illustrators!
For the complete listing, follow the links below; and a HUGE congratulations to everyone on the lists. (I am so glad I'm not on this judging panel...couldn't choose.)
http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/press.php?release=pres_2018_Nominations_Greenaway.html
http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/press.php?release=pres_2018_Nominations_Carnegie.html

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