2025 Shortlist Resources

The 2025 Carnegie Medal for Writing shortlist is (alphabetical by author surname):

Treacle Town by Brian Conaghan (Andersen Press)
The Things We Leave Behind by Clare Furniss (Simon & Schuster UK)
The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow, illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton (Otter-Barry Books)
King of Nothing by Nathanael Lessore (Bonnier Books UK)
Little Bang by Kelly McCaughrain (Walker Books)
Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald (Faber & Faber)
All That It Ever Meant by Blessing Musariri (Zephyr, Head of Zeus)
Play by Luke Palmer (Firefly Press)

The 2025 Carnegie Medal for Illustration shortlist is (alphabetical by illustrator surname):

The Invisible Story by Wen Hsu Chen, written by Jaime Gamboa, translated by Daniel Hahn (Lantana)
Grey by Lauren Child, written by Laura Dockrill (Walker Books)
I Love Books by Mariajo Ilustrajo (Quarto)
Clever Crow by Olivia Lomenech Gill, written by Chris Butterworth (Walker Books)
Letters in Charcoal by Juan Palomino, written by Irene Vasco, translated by Lawrence Schimel (Lantana)
Homebody by Theo Parish (Macmillan Children’s Books)
Wolf and Bear by Kate Rolfe (Macmillan Children’s Books)
Flying High by Yu Rong, written by Cao Wenxuan, translated by Simone-Davina Monnelly and Jake Hope (UCLan Publishing)