The Blue Book of Nebo WINNER OF THE YOTO CARNEGIE 2023 MEDAL FOR WRITING

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In a separate prize, children from reading groups in schools and libraries also voted for their preferred winners, who each received a medal. This year’s “shadowers’ choice” award for writing went to I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys, who previously won the headline Carnegie medal in 2017 for Salt to the Sea. Joe Todd-Stanton won the shadowers’ illustration medal for The Comet. At first glance this looks like a short, light novel but how wrong anyone would be to think that. Translated from the original Welsh, this is a deep thought-provoking novel – filled with actions and philosophical questions that create a lasting impression. I’ll go hunting tonight. Try to get hold of a rabbit or a wild cat so that Mam can have some meat on her birthday. There are traps down on the potato field already. She’ll have a good birthday this year. Today, I was cutting down branches from their garden to dry out and use as kindling. Mam was standing at the bottom of the tree, and Dwynwen was tied to her chest, trying to talk. Mam was bundling up the branches as I was throwing them down, because that makes it easier to drag them home. It’s easier for me to climb trees and to go up on the roof and all that, because Mam has a bad leg and walks with a limp. But she still climbs onto the roof of the lean-to with me when it’s sunny or starry. The Carnegie medals were established in 1936 for writing and 1955 for illustration, open to books in the English language. This means that in theory translations into English have always been eligible. Previous winners of the writing award include Arthur Ransome, CS Lewis, Penelope Lively, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Eleanor Farjeon and Phillip Pullman; earlier illustration winners include Raymond Briggs, Shirley Hughes and Quentin Blake.

from its pole. I sweated as I hit the metal with a heavy mallet, and I swore loudly, but I was enjoying it too, because I knew that I’d succeed.The winners of the medals were announced at a London ceremony on Wednesday hosted by Lauren Child, who won the illustration award in 2000 for her first Charlie and Lola book. There must have been more than that, but I can’t remember. I’ve tried and tried, but the more I try, the less I remember. It’s like trying to remember a dream.

Improving news literacy is at the heart of First News, whether through our acclaimed news service or our award-winning news-based learning tools and resources for schools and educators. Manon Steffan Ros was born in Snowdonia and worked as an actress and musician before becoming a full-time writer. Manon has written over 23 books for adults and children in the Welsh language and has won the Wales Book of the Year for her adult fiction as well as being four-times winner of the Tir na n’Og Wales Children’s Book Awards. She has also won Eisteddfod and National Theatre Wales awards for her script writing. She lives in Tywyn in north Wales with her sons. When Nyla has to leave her home in the countryside to start life again in the city, all she can think about is everything she misses from before. So when a comet comes crashing through the city streets and starts to glow and grow, Nyla can’t resist a chance to head somewhere that feels closer to what she had before … but what starts as an escape could be just the thing to make her finally feel at home. The Comet is a celebration of imagination, make believe play, and the relationship between parent and child all combined with the near universal theme of moving house, and dealing with a new environment and experience.Centre for Literacy in Primary Education and the English and Media Centre have created expert teaching resources for the shortlisted books. Winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2023 | Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2023: 11 - 14 Sepetys previously won the Carnegie Medal for Writing in 2017 for Salt to the Sea and was shortlisted in 2021 for The Fountains of Silence. I Must Betray You, a YA novel set during the Romanian Revolution, was called “compelling”, “captivating” and “a must-read” by shadower Grace from The Abbey Readers, and Giselle from HAEC Books and Biscuits Carnegie Shadowers group described it as a “powerful and moving historical fiction novel. . . The author explores the themes of freedom, betrayal, and hope in a way that is both thought-provoking and relevant to our own lives.” Author Guy Bass introduces SCRAP, about one robot who tried to protect the humans on his planet against an army of robots. Now the humans need his... The thirty-six year old Rowenna, her son Dylan and her daughter, Mona, a very young child, live in a remote part of Wales. When the End occurred, Rowenna smartly hired a transit van and went on a shopping spree at the local supermarket, hardware store and convenience store. As this was eight years ago we must assume that most of this has now run out. They survive by trapping animals, growing vegetables and other crops and breaking into the neighbouring empty houses and stealing what they can find but not into the house of their immediate neighbours, which Rowenna will not allow.

I always use my writing to process something significant in my own mind, and I remember finding it difficult to face the part of the story where the teenage son grows away from his mother- those steps towards independence are so natural and important but I’m a mam and it’s hard! The other part that’s always hard is when terrible things happen to the characters. I always grow to love them, and I create stories that put them through hell. I feel guilty! CILIP is the leading voice for the information, knowledge management and library profession. Our goal is to put information and library skills and professional values at the heart of a democratic, equal and prosperous society. Through Manon Steffan Ros's writing, the relationship between mother and son is tangible and so beautifully brought to life. The book is sad and tragic in parts but it is also uplifting and hopeful. Mannon Steffan Ros's The Blue Book of Nebo has been adapted from Welsh into English and, in my opinion, is not only one of the best books that I have read in translation, but it is also one of the best crossover novels that I have read in a very long time. It will appeal to young adult readers and adult readers alike. It is a triumph of a novella, I read it in one sitting I found it so compelling. She was awarded a CBE for Services to Literature in 2020; and was the 10 th Waterstones’ Children’s Laureate from 2017-2019.

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