From inspiring speeches to joyful celebrations, what a day it was! ✨ Browse the full gallery of photos and watch the 2026 Carnegie Awards ceremony whenever you like: https://carnegies.co.uk/take-part/2026-ceremony/ #Carnegies2026 📷 Tom PIlston

🎉 #Carnegies2026 Shadowers' Choice Medal for Writing winner Beth O'Brien has chosen Oxted Library to receive a £500 donation from CILIP 📚 The donation will help Surrey Libraries continue inspiring young people to discover libraries as welcoming, accessible and free spaces to read. 💚

What a day. 💚 The #Carnegies2026 brought together authors, illustrators, librarians, teachers, publishers and, most importantly, young readers to celebrate outstanding children's books. Relive the highlights from this year's ceremony! 🎥

One month on, we're looking back at a wonderful celebration of books, libraries, and young readers. 📚💚 Take a look through the full photo gallery and catch up with the livestream here: https://carnegies.co.uk/take-part/2026-ceremony/ #Carnegies2026 📷 Tom Pilston

⏰ Last chance! The #Carnegies2026 Shadowing Survey closes in 2 days. Group leaders: your 5–10 minute feedback helps shape future awards, and you'll be entered to win a FREE 2027 shortlist pack! 🎁 Take the survey 👉 https://fs3.formsite.com/cilip/ShadowingSurvey/index

Still smiling from an unforgettable day celebrating stories, creativity and the incredible Carnegies community. 💚 Relive the magic with our full photo gallery and watch the ceremony back on demand: https://carnegies.co.uk/take-part/2026-ceremony/ 📷 Tom Pilston

📚 New guest blog from Rachel Glibbery of St Bede's Inter-Church School, Cambridge. Rachel shares how the school's Carnegie Shadowing Group, the Narrative Navigators, engaged with the Carnegie Awards 2026. 🔗 cilipslg.com/2026/07/14/t... @carnegiemedals.bsky.social @cilip.bsky.social

🥈 The Carnegies have won Silver for Best Longstanding Awards Event at the 2026 Awards Awards! A wonderful recognition of almost 90 years of celebrating children's books + inspiring new generations of readers. 💚 https://carnegies.co.uk/cilip-silver-2026-awards-awards/

Want to get a free 2027 shortlist pack? 🎁 We invite group leaders to give us your feedback from shadowing the #Carnegies2026 by 24 July, for a chance to win! 🎉 🗒️ Complete our 5-10 minute Shadowing Survey now 👉 https://fs3.formsite.com/cilip/ShadowingSurvey/index

📣 Shadowing group leaders! Tell us what you think of shadowing the #Carnegies2026 💭 Complete our short survey by 24 July for a chance to win a 2027 shortlist pack! 📚✨ 👉 https://fs3.formsite.com/cilip/ShadowingSurvey/index

In this episode of the @justgetarealjob.bsky.social podcast, Jamie Mackinlay talks to Margaret McDonald, who in 2025 became the youngest-ever winner of the @carnegiemedals.bsky.social for Writing for her debut novel GLASGOW BOYS #YA 💙📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBPj...

How Margaret McDonald Got Glasgow Boys Published

YouTube video by Just Get A Real Job

youtube.com

#NewIllustrationoftheDay revisits Kate Rolfe's Wiggling Words, which won the Carnegie Medal for Illustration today. Lovely printed lettering in a picturebook about the struggle to learn to read (lettering also on her dungarees at the ceremony). @twohootsbooks.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social

Congratulations again to Beth O'Brien, double @carnegiemedals.bsky.social winner - Medal for #Writing and the Shadowers' Choice. @gntread24.bsky.social interviewed Beth for Books for Keeps #booksky #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/reim...

📚 The 2026 Carnegie Medal and Shadowers’ Choice for Writing winner is now available on Sora! Wolf Siren by Beth O'Brien is featured as part of Sora Reads until 8 July. Borrow the award-winning title with for free and join the community reading experience. https://company.overdrive.com/carnegies/

Huge congrats to Beth O’Brien for winning the @carnegiemedals.bsky.social for Wolf Siren! Big fun day, met lots of the Shadowing groups, and a great atmosphere.

Awards ceremony for @carnegiemedals.bsky.social today. Well-deserved winners. Great occasion.

Beth O'Brien has won the Carnegie Medal for Writing and the Shadowers' Choice Award for her feminist reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood. Here's our very own Lynne Livingstone and Beth O'Brien, with a braille copy of Wolf Siren! Congratulations to Beth! @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #BookSky

RNIB Library is delighted to have Wolf Siren in audio and braille formats. This magical reimagining of the Little Red Riding Hood tale by author Beth O’Brien won both the Carnegie Medal for Writing and the Shadowers' Choice Award for Writing. @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #Carnegies2026 #BookSky

Cyanatope, Connection and Carnegie Medals ... enjoy our NEW interview with Kate Rolfe, winner of #CarnegieMedals2026 for Illustration. @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #booksky #KidLitUK booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/cyan...

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay from Aimee de Jongh’s labour of love, a graphic novel interpretation of Golding’s Lord of the Flies, which yesterday won the Shadowers’ Choice award for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration, voted for by schoolchildren.. @faberbooks.bsky.social @carnegiemedals.bsky.social

✨ Celebrating the people behind #Carnegies2026 👏 Thank you to the Awards Team, to Youth Libraries Group and to all our 2026 Carnegies judges, led by Stella Hine, for the care, time and dedication they bring 👏

✨ Our #Carnegies2026 partners play a vital role in bringing the awards to life. A special thank you to First News , CLPE, English and Media Centre, RNIB, @calibreaudio.bsky.social, Yoto, Matilda the Musical, #NationalYearofReading2026, and Pen and Inc Books!

We’re hugely grateful to our sponsors for supporting #Carnegies2026! Thank you to our digital sponsor Sora, our awards sponsor ALCS and our book supplier Scholastic UK for making it all possible!

🏆👏 Congratulations to the 2026 Winners of the Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration, and Shadower's Choice Medals: Beth O' Brien, Kate Rolfe and Aimée de Jongh! ‏#Carnegies2026 Read the press release here: https://carnegies.co.uk/2026-winners-announced/

🎉Wolf Siren scores a double win, taking both the 2026 Carnegie Medal and the Shadower's Choice Medal for Writing! Congratulations to Beth O' Brien and HarperCollinsUK! #Carnegies2026

🥇And the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Illustration goes to Wiggling Words! Congratulations Kate Rolfe and Two Hoots! #Carnegies2026

🏆 Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel has won the 2026 Shadower's Choice Medal for Illustration! Congratulations to Aimée de Jongh, Faber Books and Faber Children's! #Carnegies2026

🎉 We’re delighted to announce the ALCS Poster Competition winners! 👏 We were blown away by every entry! 🏆 Congratulations to The Silver Tongues from Poplar Primary School, winning £1000 for their school library, with their poster showcased at the #Carnegies2026 ceremony!

🎧 Looking for a great listen? Two of this year’s Carnegie shortlisted authors, JP Rose & Rob Harrell, feature in a Carnegies edition of Fun Kids Book Quest! They chat about their books, the awards, & how thousands of young people take part in Shadowing https://www.funkidslive.com/?podcast=bookquest

⏰ One week to go until the 2026 Carnegie Awards! Who will take home this year’s Carnegie Medals? And which shortlisted books will be chosen by young readers as the Shadowers’ Choice winners? Tune in live on Tuesday 23 June at 12pm to find out. Watch live: carnegies.co.uk/stream/ #Carnegies2026