Carnegie and Kate Greenaway shortlist announced

The Youth Libraries Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP YLG) has announced the shortlist for this year's Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals for children's books.

The shortlist for the Carnegie medal:

• Clay by David Almond (Hodder)
• Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Macmillan)
• Turbulence by Jan Mark (Hodder)
• The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean (Oxford University Press)
• Tamar by Mal Peet (Walker)

The shortlist for the Kate Greenaway medal:

• Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You by Tony DiTerlizzi (Simon and Schuster, text by Holly Black)
• Wolves by Emily Gravett (Macmillan)
• Traction Man is Here by Mini Grey (Jonathan Cape)
• Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
• Mirrormask by Dave McKean (Bloomsbury, text by Neil Gaiman)
• Jinnie Ghost by Jane Ray (Frances Lincoln, text by Berlie Doherty)
• Little Red by David Roberts (Chrysalis Children's Books, text by Jane Roberts)
• Russell the Sheep by Rob Scotton (HarperCollins)

For full details about the award and the short-listed books see the Carnegie/Kate Greenaway website.