Two graphic novels have been in Britain’s Yoto Carnegie Medal longlists 2023, introduced in the present day – Ziggy Hanaor and Benjamin Phillips’ Jewish identification story Alte Zachen: Old Things (Circada Books) and Trang Nguyen and Jeet Zdung’s younger conservationism story Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear (Kingfisher); each for illustration.
Both Alte Zachen and Saving Sorya have drawn essential consideration in Best of 2022 lists or – in Saving Sorya‘s case – an Eisner nomination.
The Yoto Carnegie’s stated:
“The Yoto Carnegies, the UK’s longest running and best-loved book awards for children and young people, today announced the longlists for 2023. Dominated by independent publishers, the stories range from intimate examinations of family life to sensitive introductions to societal issues impacting the world today, with many reflecting on past histories or looking to the future of our planet.”
The Yoto Carnegie Awards, in response to their web site, intention to “recognis[e] outstanding reading experiences created through writing and illustration in books for children and young people.” Books are chosen and awards bestowed by librarians in the UK throughout two classes – for Writing and for Illustration. The Carnegie Medal for Illustration was initially established as the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1955. Always thought of a companion to the Carnegie Medal (which promotes writing in youngsters’s literature), it seems that, as of this 12 months, the Kate Greenaway has been rebranded as the Carnegie Medal for Illustration.
The Yoto Carnegie for Writing 2023 had no comics longlisted. The Illustration class, on the different hand, had two books clearly marketed as graphic novels of their synopses. As properly as these particular titles lots of the image books which make up the eighteen-strong longlist implement parts of sequential narrative. Examples embrace Mariajo Illustrajo’s Flooded (Frances Lincoln); Joe Todd-Stanton’s The Comet (Nobrow’s youngsters’s imprint Flying Eye Books); and Paula White’s The Baker by the Sea (Templar Books).
Winners of the Carnegies obtain a golden medal, £500 (~$600) of books to donate to their chosen library, plus a £5000 money Colin Mears Award. The Yoto Carnegies are organised by CILIP, the library and info affiliation. This 12 months’s sponsors of the awards embrace screen-free audio platform Yoto, Scholastic, and the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS).
The shortlists for the 2023 Yoto Carnegie’s can be declared March 17, with the winners at a ceremony going down June 21.
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