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Folks! The CILIP Kate Greenaway and Carnegie Nominations for the 2010 Awards have been announced. They are two loooong lists but worth having a read – check ‘em out after the jump…

Up for the Carnegie -

John Agard’s The Young Inferno
Alison Allen-Gray’s Lifegame
David Almond Jackdaw Summer
Laurie Halse Anderson’s Chains
RJ Anderson’s Knife
Bernard Ashley’s Solitaire
Tim Bowler’s Bloodchild
Sarah Rees Brennan’s The Demon’s Lexicon
Kevin Brooks’ Killing God
Melvin Burgess’, Nicholas Dane
Elen Caldecott’s How Kirsty Jenkins stole the elephant
Anne Cassidy’s The Dead House
Henry Chancellor The Remarkable Adventures of Tom Scatterhorn: The Museum’s Secret
Lucy Christopher’s Stolen
Sharon Creech Hate That Cat
Kevin Crossley-Holland’s Waterslain Angels
Sharon Dogar’s Falling
Julia Donaldson’s Running on the cracks
Siobhan Dowd’s Solace of the Road
Paul Dowswell’s Auslander
Daniel Finn’s Two Good Thieves
Pauline Fisk’s Flying for Frankie
Gayle Forman’s If I Stay
Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book
Julia Golding’s Wolf Cry
Helen Grant’s The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Frances Hardinge’s Gullstruck Island
Julie Hearn’s Rowan the Strange
FE Higgins’ The Eyeball Collector
Mary Hoffman’s Troubadour
Ally Kennen’s Bedlam
Suzanne LaFleur’s Love, Aubrey
Elizabeth Laird’s The Witching Hour
Mick & Granstrom Manning’s Brita Tail-End Charlie
Robert Muchamore’s Brigands M.C.
Patrick Ness’ The Ask and the Answer
Linda Newbery’s The Sandfather
James Patterson’s Max
Mal Peet’s Exposure
Anna Perera’s, Guantanamo Boy
Gillian Philip’s Crossing the Line
Terry Pratchett’s Nation
Bali Rai’s City of Ghosts
Philip Reeve’s Fever Crumb
James Riordan’s The Sniper
Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian
Marcus Sedgwick The Kiss of Death
Marcus Sedgwick Revolver
Lazlo Strangolov Feather and Bone
Jonathan Stroud Heroes of the Valley
Jenny Valentine The Ant Colony
Rachel Ward Numbers
David Whitley The Midnight Charter
Leslie Wilson Saving Rafael

And up for the Kate Greenaway -

Deborah Allwright’s (text by Jill Lewis) Don’t Read This Book!
Russell Ayto (text by Andy Cutbill) The Best Cow in Show
Grahame Baker-Smith (text by Angela McAllister) Leon and the Place Between
Simon Bartram’s Bob’s Best Ever Friend
Freya Blackwood’s (text by Margaret Wild) Harry and Hopper
Freya Blackwood’s (text by Roddy Doyle) Her Mother’s Face
Rachel Bright What does Daddy do?
Imogen Clare (text by Sanchia Oppenheimer) Lucy Goes to Market
Emma Chichester Clark (text by Colin McNaughton) Not Last Night But The Night Before
Katie Cleminson Box of Tricks
Helen Cooper Dog Biscuit
John Fardell Manfred the Baddie
Jan Milo Fearnley Armadillo
Lizzie Finlay Dandylion
Michael Foreman A Child’s Garden: A Story of Hope
Tony Fucile Let’s Do Nothing!
Debi Gliori The Trouble with Dragons
Emily Gravett Dogs
Emily Gravett The Rabbit Problem
Mini Grey Traction Man meets Turbodog
Petr Horacek Elephant
Catherine Hyde, (text by Carol Ann Duffy) The Princess’ Blankets
Bruce Ingman (text by Allan Ahlberg) The Pencil
Oliver Jeffers The Great Paper Caper
Satoshi Kitamura Millie’s Marvellous Hat
Satoshi Kitamura, (text by John Agard) The Young Inferno
Kazuno Kohara The Haunted House
Sam Lloyd Mr Pusskins Best In Show
Leonie Lord, (text by Martin Waddell) The Dirty Great Dinosaur
Cathy MacLennan, Monkey, Monkey
Dave McKean, (text by Neil Gaiman) Crazy Hair
Alexandra Milton, (text by Giles Milton) Call Me Gorgeous!
Elena Odriozola, (text by Ferida Wolff and Harriet May Savitz) The story blanket
George Patrick, A Filth of Starlings
Catherine Rayner Sylvia and Bird
Chris Riddell, (text by Martin Jenkins) Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Chris Riddell (text by Neil Gaiman) The Graveyard Book
David Roberts (text by Julia Donaldson) The Troll
David Roberts, (text by Paul Fleischman) The Dunderheads
Tony Ross (text by Jeanne Willis) Big Bad Bun
Natalie Russell Moon Rabbit
Axel Scheffler (text by Julia Donaldson) Stick Man
Viviane Schwarz There are Cats in this Book
Nick Sharratt The Foggy, Foggy Forest
Manja Stojic (text by Harriet Blackford) Gorilla’s Story
Pavel Tatarnikov (text by John Matthews) Arthur of Albion
Marcia Williams My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright
Chris Wormell Ferocious Wild Beasts!

See… I told ye they were long lists!! Major kudos to Sarah Rees Brennan, FE Higgins and Oliver Jeffers for show casing the Irish side! Now – to start reading the books I haven’t read!