Carnegies 2025 Shortlisted Books
Shortlists for the Carnegie Medal 2025 and Kate Greenaway award 2025 – recommended for children and young adults in primary and secondary schools.
Recommended reading books for primary & secondary aged children in the UK
Kate Rolfe is a UK author and illustrator specialising in children’s picture books. She studied Animation at Plymouth College of Art, then earned a BA (Hons) in Film Production from Northern Film School. Later, she completed an MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art in 2022.
In addition to writing and illustrating, Rolfe works in textile design, teaches illustration, and leads drawing and writing workshops online. She is represented by Neil Dunnicliffe at Spring Literary.
Her debut picture book, Wolf and Bear, was published by Two Hoots. The book uses the cyanotype process combined with crayon, pastel and digital drawing techniques.
Rolfe won the World Illustration Award for New Talent in Children’s Publishing in 2024 for Wiggling Words. She also received the Student Illustrator of the Year award from the V&A Illustration Awards in 2022 for the same project.
She was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2024 and longlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize 2024 for Wolf and Bear.
Shortlists for the Carnegie Medal 2025 and Kate Greenaway award 2025 – recommended for children and young adults in primary and secondary schools.
Here’s our selection of top new titles coming out in Spring 2025. These reading recommendations include picture books, early and middle-grade fiction; young adult novels and non-fiction.
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