Christmas Stocking Fillers

Do your kids a favour this year and include some fantastic books in their Christmas stockings. I guarantee they’ll have more staying power than this year’s must have toy and be a lot cheaper. More importantly, they’ll fire the children’s imagination and foster a love of books and reading.

For some great ideas take a look at the winners and shortlisted titles for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards. Don’t forget, the titles you don’t buy can be borrowed from the library. Reserve a book

Judged by librarians the CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded for an outstanding children’s book written in English and the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for a children’s book with outstanding illustrations.

CILIP Carnegie Medal Winner

Ruta Sepetys – Salt to the Sea 

(Recommended age 13+)

It's early 1945 and a group of people trek across Germany, bound together by their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged land. Four young people, each haunted by their own dark secret, narrate their unforgettable stories. 

Shortlisted titles:
Frank Cottrell-Boyce - Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth (9+)
Zana Fraillon - The Bone Sparrow (13+)
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock - The Smell of Other People's Houses (13+)

Glenda Millard - The Stars at Oktober Bend (13+)
Mal Peet & Meg Rosoff - Beck (13+)
Philip Reeve - Railhead (13+)
Lauren Wolk - Wolf Hollow (9+)

CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Winner

Lane Smith – There is a Tribe of Kids 

(Pre-School)

Did you ever want to waddle with a colony of penguins? Wriggle with an army of caterpillars? Or march with a troop of monkeys? Legendary illustrator Lane Smith takes us on a colourful adventure through the natural world, following a child as he weaves through the jungle, dives under the ocean, and soars into the sky. Along the way he makes friends and causes mischief with a dazzling array of creatures both large and small - but can he find a tribe of his own?

Shortlisted titles:
Dieter Braun - Wild Animals of the North (5+)
Emily Gravett - Tidy (Pre-School)
William Grill - The Wolves of Currumpaw (7+)
J K Rowling & Jim Kay - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (9+)
Michael Rosen & Chris Riddell - A Great Big Cuddle (Pre-School)
Francesca Sanna - The Journey (5+)
Brian Selznick - The Marvels (9+)

Sanau Nadolig

Gwnewch ffafr â’r plant y Nadolig yma a chynnwys llyfrau gwych yn eu sanau Nadolig. Rwy’n gwarantu y byddant yn para’n hirach na’r tegan diweddaraf, ac yn llawer rhatach. Yn bwysicach na hynny, byddant yn ysgogi dychymyg y plant a meithrin cariad tuag at lyfrau a darllen.

I gael syniadau, edrychwch ar yr enillwyr a’r llyfrau ar y rhestr fer ar gyfer Gwobrau Llyfrau Plant CILIP Carnegie a Kate Greenaway. Peidiwch ag anghofio, medrwch fenthyg y llyfrau nad ydych yn eu prynu o’r llyfrgell. Archebu Llyfrau

Yn cael ei feirniadu gan lyfrgellwyr, mae Medal CILIP Carnegie yn cael ei ddyfarnu i lyfr plant eithriadol wedi ei ysgrifennu yn Saesneg, ac mae Medal CILIP Kate Greenaway yn mynd i’r llyfr plant gyda darluniau eithriadol.

Enillydd Medal CILIP Carnegie

Ruta Sepetys – Salt to the Sea 

(Oedran a argymhellir 13+)

Mae’n gynnar ym 1945 ac mae grŵp o bobl yn teithio ar draws yr Almaen, wedi eu huno gan angen i gyrraedd y llong a fedr fynd â nhw i ffwrdd o’r wlad llawn rhyfel. Mae pedwar o bobl ifanc, pob un gyda’i gyfrinach dywyll ei hun, yn adrodd eu straeon bythgofiadwy. 

Teitlau ar y rhestr fer:
Frank Cottrell-Boyce - Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth (9+)
Zana Fraillon - The Bone Sparrow (13+)
Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock - The Smell of Other People's Houses (13+) 
Glenda Millard - The Stars at Oktober Bend (13+)
Mal Peet with Meg Rosoff - Beck (13+)
Philip Reeve - Railhead (13+)
Lauren Wolk - Wolf Hollow (9+)

Enillydd Medal CILIP Kate Greenaway

Lane Smith – There is a Tribe of Kids 

(Plant cyn-ysgol)

Ydych chi erioed wedi bod eisiau cerdded gyda llwyth o bengwiniaid? Cropian gyda byddin o lindys? Neu orymdeithio gyda haid o fwncwns? Mae’r arlunydd chwedlonol Lane Smith yn mynd â ni ar antur liwgar drwy’r byd naturiol, yn dilyn plentyn wrth iddo deithio drwy’r jyngl, nofio yn y môr, a hedfan i’r awyr. Ar y ffordd, mae’n gwneud ffrindiau ac yn achosi drygioni gydag amrywiaeth syfrdanol o greaduriaid mawr a bach - ond a fedr gael hyd i’w lwyth ei hun?

Teitlau ar y rhestr fer:
Dieter Braun - Wild Animals of the North (5+)
Emily Gravett - Tidy (Plant cyn-ysgol)

William Grill - The Wolves of Currumpaw (7+)
J K Rowling & Jim Kay - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (9+)
Michael Rosen & Chris Riddell - A Great Big Cuddle (Plant cyn-ysgol)

Francesca Sanna - The Journey (5+)
Brian Selznick - The Marvels (9+)