Named after Andrew Carnegie. Awarded annually since 1936 for an outstanding book for children written in English and published initially in the UK during the preceding year.

1936 : Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome (Cape)
1937 : The Family from One End Street by Frederick Muller (Vanguard Press NY)
1938 : The Circus is Coming by Noel Streatfeild (Dent)
1939 : The Radium Woman by Eleanor Doorly (Heinemann)
1940 : Visitors from London by Kitty Barne (Dent)
1941 : We Couldn't Leave Dinah by Mary Treadgold (Cape)
1942 : The Little Grey Men by "BB" (E & S)
1943 : AWARD WITHHELD AS NO BOOK CONSIDERED SUITABLE
1944 : The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater (Macmillan)
1945 : AWARD WITHHELD AS NO BOOK CONSIDERED SUITABLE
1946 : The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge (Brockhampton Press)
1947 : Collected Stories for Children by Walter De La Mare (Faber)
1948 : Sea Change by Richard Armstrong (Dent)
1949 : The Story of Your Home by Agnes Allen (Faber)
1950 : The Lark on the Wing by Elfrida Vipont (OUP)
1951 : The Wool-Pack by Cynthia Harnett (Methuen)
1952 : The Borrowers by Mary Norton (Dent)
1953 : A Valley Grows Up by Edward Osmond (OUP)

1954 : Knight Crusaders by Ronald Welch (OUP)
Commended
The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston (Faber)
Over the Hills to Fabylon by Nicholas Stuart Gray (Dennis Dobson)
The Horse and His Boy cy C S Lewis (Collins)
Lady of the Linden Tree by Barbara Leonie Picard (OUP)
English Fables and Fairy Stories by James Reeves (OUP)
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (OUP)
Special Commendation
Lavender's Blues by Kathleen Lines (OUP)

1955 : The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon (OUP)
Commended
Man Must Measure by Lancelot Hogben (Macdonald)
Candidate for Fame by Margaret Jowett (OUP)
The Story of Albert Schweitzer by Jo Manton (Abelard-Schuman NY)
A Swarm in May by William Mayne (OUP)
Minnow on the Say by Philippa A Pearce (OUP)

1956 : The Last Battle by C S Lewis (Bodley Head)
Commended
The Fairy Doll by Rumer Godden (Macmillan)
Chorister's Cake by William Mayne (OUP)
The Member for the Marsh by William Mayne (OUP)
Ransom for a Knight by Barbara Leonie Picard (OUP)
The Silver Sword by Ian Serrailler (Cape)
The Shield Ring by Rosemary Sutcliff (OUP)

1957 : A Grass Rope by William Mayne (OUP)
Commended
The Warden's Niece by Gillian Avery (Collins)
Songbird's Grove by Anne Barrett (Collins)
Falconer's Lure by Antonia Forest (Faber)
The Blue Boat by William Mayne (OUP)
Story of the Second World War by Kathleen Savage (Bodley Head)
The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff (OUP)

1958 : Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa A Pearce (OUP)
Commended
The Chimneys of Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston (Faber)
Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliff (OUP)

1959 : The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff (OUP)
Commended
The Load of Unicorn by Cynthia Harnett (Methuen)
The Borrowers Afloat by Mary Norton (Dent)
The Rescuers by Margery Sharp (Collins)
Friday's Tunnel by John Verney (Collins)
Quiet as Moss by Andrew Young (Hart-Davis)

1960 : The Making of Man by Ian W Cornwall & Howard M Maitland (Phoenix House)

1961 : A Stranger at Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston (Faber)
Commended
Peter's Room by Antonia Forest (Faber)
Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden (Macmillan)
Ragged Robin by James Reeves (Heinemann)
February's Road by John Verney (Collins)

1974 : The Stronghold by Mollie Hunter
1975 : The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall
1976 : Thunder and Lightnings by Jan Mark
1977 : The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tyler by Gene Kemp
1978 : The Exeter Blitz by David Rees
1979 : Tulku by Peter Dickinson
1980 : City of Gold by Peter Dickinson
1981 : The Scarecrows by Robert Westall
1981 : The Haunting by Margaret Mahy

1987 : Susan Price - The Ghost Drum
1988 : Geraldine McCaughrean - A Pack of Lies
1989 : Anne Fine - Goggle-Eyes
1990 : Gillian Cross - Wolf
1991 : Berlie Doherty - Dear Nobody
1992 : Anne Fine - Flour Babies
1993 : Robert Swindells - Stone Cold
1994 : Theresa Breslin - Whispers in the Graveyard
1995 Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
1996 : Melvyn Burgess - Junk