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28th August 2008

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Reeve takes Carnegie

26.06.08 Caroline Horn

Philip Reeve has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2008 for Here Lies Arthur (Scholastic), a retelling of the Arthurian legend, while Emily Gravett has picked up the illustration CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2008, for Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears (Macmillan). The awards were presented by Michael Portillo today (26th June) during a lunch-time presentation at the British Library.

Reeve has already won three major book prizes including the Nestlé Children’s Gold Award (2002) and the “Blue Peter” Book of the Year (2003) for his first novel Mortal Engines. He also won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 2006 for A Darkling Plain. This is the second time that Emily Gravett has won the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, having already won the award for her début picture book, Wolves, in 2005.

This year more than 3,400 reading groups in schools and public libraries signed up to shadow the awards by reading the shortlisted titles—nearly 90,000 children and young people got involved.

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