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==Carnegie of Carnegies==

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Carnegie Medal in 2007, CILIP created a 'Living Archive' on the Carnegie Medal website with information about each of the winning books and conducted a poll to identify the nation's favourite Carnegie Medal winner, to be named the "Carnegie of Carnegies". The winner, announced on 21 June 2007 at the [[British Library]], was ''[[Northern Lights (Pullman novel)|Northern Lights]]'' by [[Philip Pullman]] (1995). It was the expected winner, garnering 40% of the votes in the UK, and 36% worldwide.<ref name=eccleshare>{{cite news|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6454463.html|url-status=dead|title=Rosoff, Grey Win Carnegie, Greenaway Medals in U.K.|last=Eccleshare|first=Julia|author-link=Julia Eccleshare|newspaper=[[Publishers Weekly]]|date=21 June 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007185734/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6454463.html|archive-date=7 October 2008|access-date=15 March 2019}}</ref>

'''70th Anniversary Top Ten'''
* [[David Almond]], ''[[Skellig]]'', ([[Hodder & Stoughton|Hodder]], 1998)
* [[Melvin Burgess]], ''[[Junk (novel)|Junk]]'', ([[Penguin Books|Penguin]], 1996)
* [[Kevin Crossley-Holland]], ''[[Storm (novella)|Storm]]'', ([[Egmont Group|Egmont]], 1985)
* [[Jennifer Donnelly]], ''[[A Gathering Light]]'', ([[Bloomsbury Publishing|Bloomsbury]], 2003)
* [[Alan Garner]], ''[[The Owl Service]]'', ([[HarperCollins]], 1967)
* [[Eve Garnett]], ''[[The Family from One End Street]]'', (Penguin, 1937)
* [[Mary Norton (author)|Mary Norton]], ''[[The Borrowers]]'', (Penguin, 1952)
* [[Philippa Pearce]], ''[[Tom's Midnight Garden]]'', ([[Oxford Press|Oxford]], 1958)
* '''[[Philip Pullman]], ''[[Northern Lights (Pullman novel)|Northern Lights]]'', ([[Scholastic Press|Scholastic]], 1995)'''
* [[Robert Westall]], ''[[The Machine Gunners]]'', ([[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]], 1975)

''Northern Lights'', with 40% of the public vote, was followed by 16% for ''Tom's Midnight Garden'' by Philippa Pearce and 8% for ''Skellig'' by David Almond. As those three books had won the 70-year-old Medal in its year 60, year 23, and year 63, some commentary observed that ''Tom's Midnight Garden'' had passed a test of time that the others had not yet faced.<ref name=cofc>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jun/22/books.booksnews|title=Pullman children's book voted best in 70 years|last=Ezard|first=John|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=22 June 2007|access-date=15 March 2019|archive-date=29 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629155055/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/jun/22/books.booksnews|url-status=live}}</ref>