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Anniversaries are valuable moments, spaces in which reflections on past and present can invigorate the future.   The CILIP Carnegie Medal’s 80 th  birthday is a great example. What better inspiration for book lovers than the words of Andrew Carnegie: ‘To try to make the world in some way better than you found it is to have a noble motive in life.’ The wonder of books ran through Carnegie's life and his philanthropy, and a constant theme was the vital importance of the free library, which ‘outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.’ The eight decades of the CILIP Carnegie Medal have encompassed war and devastation, human upheaval and suffering. The same years have also seen great moves to make the world a better place, growing international understanding of rights, freedom and equality, and profoundly life-changing human rights laws. These values emerge in contemporary

Carnegie Medal | Kate Greenaway Medal Winners 2017 The Winners of the CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards have been announced!   Salt to the Sea  by Ruta Sepetys wins the Carnegie Medal in this special 80th anniversary year and  There is a Tribe of Kids  written and illustrated by Lane Smith takes the Kate Greenaway Medal. Carnegie Medal Winner 2017 Synopsis Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys Four young people, each haunted by their own dark secret, narrate their unforgettable stories. Fans of  The Book Thief  or Helen Dunmore's  The Siege  will be totally absorbed. When the German ship the Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk in port in early 1945 it had over 9000 civilian refugees, including children, on board. Nearly all were drowned. Ruta Sepetys, acclaimed author of  Between Shades of Grey , brilliantly imagines their story. About the Author Ruta Sepetys is the author of acclaimed YA novel,  Between Shades of Grey . Born and raised in M