Press release from an ecstatic Walker Books !
A
Monster Calls written by Patrick Ness and illustrated by Jim Kay has
become the first book ever to win both
the CILIP Carnegie and CILIP Kate Greenaway Medals.
In winning the CILIP Carnegie Medal,
Patrick Ness also becomes only the second author to win the award in
consecutive years. He scooped the coveted Medal in 2011 for Monsters of Men.
Commenting on today’s historic
announcement, Rachel Levy, Children’s Library Services Manager for Sutton
Libraries and chair of the 2012 CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway judging
panels said:
“A Monster Calls is outstanding
in every way: Patrick Ness’s story is exquisitely told with not a word out of
place. Jim Kay’s bold, haunting illustrations beautifully complement, and even
expand the text. This is a book readers will remember and return to over and
over again. It is, quite simply, one of the defining books of its generation”.
One young reviewer from this year’s
CILIP Carnegie shadowing scheme wrote of A Monster Calls:
“Patrick Ness has written a book that
not only has the ability to break your heart, but heal it as well”
Asked what winning his second
consecutive CILIP Carnegie Medal meant to him, Patrick Ness said:
“It’s extremely humbling - and a little
unnerving - to win the CILIP Carnegie Medal two years in a row. I also can’t
tell you how happy I am that not only has the extraordinary work of Jim Kay
been recognised with the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal (truly couldn’t happen to a
nicer guy), but that this will all help keep people reading and talking about
the wonderful, wonderful Siobhan Dowd, which was the best outcome I wanted when
I set out to write the book”.
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