Carnegie Medal for Illustration 2025 Longlist

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

• The Last Zookeeper by Aaron Becker (Walker)
• 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)
• Flower Block by Hoang Giang, written by Lanisha Butterfield (Puffin)
• I Love Books by Mariajo Ilustrajo (Quarto)
• The Dictionary Story by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston (Walker)
• Clever Crow by Olivia Lomenech Gill, written by Chris Butterworth (Walker)
• Dive, Dive into the Night Sea by Thea Lu (Walker)
• Letters in Charcoal by Juan Palomino, written by Irene Vasco, translated by Lawrence Schimel (Lantana)
• Homebody by Theo Parish (Macmillan Children’s Books)
• The Bridges by Tom Percival (Simon & Schuster)
• Wolf and Bear by Kate Rolfe (Macmillan Children’s Books)
• Flying High by Yu Rong, written by Cao Wenxuan, translated by Simone Monnelly (UCLan Publishing)
• Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith (Walker)
• Grandad’s Star by Rhian Stone, written by Frances Tosdevin (Harper Collins Publishers)
• The Wild by Yuval Zommer (Oxford University Press)