Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards 2022 shortlist

The UK’s longest running and best-loved book awards for children and young people, the Yoto Carnegie Greenaway Awards, have announced the shortlists for 2022!

The awards celebrate outstanding achievement in children’s writing and illustration, and the power of friendship and pictures to create empathy and connection.

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Kate Greenaway shortlist for illustrators

Drawn Across Borders, by George Butler

The Midnight Fair, by Mariachiara Di Giorgio and Gideon Sterer

Too Much Stuff, by Emily Gravett

Long Way Down, by Danica Novgorodoff and Jason Reynolds

Milo Imagines the World, by Christian Robinson and Matt de la Pena

Shu Lin’s Grandpa, by Yu Rong and Matt Goodfellow

I Talk Like a River, by Sydney Smith and Jordan Scott

The Wanderer, by Peter Van den Ende

Carnegie shortlist for authors

October, October, by Katya Balen and Angela Harding

Guard Your Heart, by Sue Divin

When the Sky Falls, by Phil Earle

Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town, by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

The Crossing, by Manjeet Mann

Tsunami Girl, by Julian Sedgwick and Chie Kutsuwada

Cane Warriors, by Alex Wheatle

Punching the Air, by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam