Siobhan Dowd has become the first posthumous winner of the Carnegie Medal for Bog Child, the story of a teenage boy who finds a child's body in an Irish bog. Siobhan Dowd died in August 2007, three months after completing Bog Child. See David Fickling's acceptance speech on behalf of Siobhan Dowd.
The HCC shadowing group, and their counterparts from Hampton and LEH, voted The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness as their favourite. See our Carnegie homepage.
Patrick Ness has commented on his blog: 'So I didn't win the Carnegie Medal, but really Bog Child is a really good book by a really, really wonderful writer who died way too soon. No complaints from me. Especially as it seems I've been voted favourite book by the groups on the Shadowing Scheme (this is 3800 different young reading groups in schools and libraries, so way cool to be picked by them).
