Amnesty CILIP Honour

Amnesty CILIP

Amnesty CILIP

Love books, stand up for human rights!

2019 is an anniversary year for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. To mark this anniversary CILIP have launched the Shadowers’ Choice Award. The new award will be voted for and awarded by the children and young people who shadow the Medals, and will uphold children’s right to a voice.

Find out more about the new award, and what it means for us in terms of the work we are doing to support young people, educationalists, authors and illustrators.

Book review: When Sh

Book review: When Shadows Fall

This moving novel for young adults will inspire a new generation of storytellers from all different backgrounds

Celebrities join 'Reading Rebels' book club to inspire activism in children

The Crown star Olivia Colman, television presenter and former Paralympic basketball player Ade Adepitan and radio presenter Vick Hope join Amnesty’s Reading Rebels to educate children on social justice issues

Books to inspire

Books Review: Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah

We believe that children’s books are a perfect way to explore human rights, no matter how old you are. No idea is too weighty, even for a toddler, if it is communicated with skill.

Books to inspire

Books to inspire activism - from toddlers to teens

We believe that children’s books are a perfect way to explore human rights, no matter how old you are. No idea is too weighty, even for a toddler, if it is communicated with skill.

Use your right to peaceful protest, creatively!

An Amnesty collaboration, two beautiful new books take us on a visual journey through 100 years of peaceful protest.

Recommendations

Perfect books to give

Sometimes it can be hard to choose gifts. The Amnesty team recommend books for children and adults, with human rights at their heart.

Amnesty recommended titles

Discover Amnesty endorsed books, recommended graphic novels, best picture books and more.

Amnesty endorsed books of 2019

This selection of inspiring and imaginative books, endorsed by Amnesty, are a powerful celebration of human rights and the values that underpin them.

Guantanamo kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani

Guantanamo kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani

Recommended graphic novels for children and young adults

These hugely powerful books are a wonderful way for children and young people to engage with socio-political and human rights issues.

It should be a different story

As a young boy Charlie Dark never saw himself in the books he read. Today his children feel that too. The publishing world still has a long way to go to diversify itself says the runner, poet, writer and DJ.

Kate Greenaway Honour winner 2018

Honour for outstanding illustration that illuminates human rights

Carnegie Honour winner 2018

Honour for outstanding writing that illuminates human rights.

What young people think of the winning books

See films of children discussing the Honour winners.

Meet the 2018 judges

Our panel of judges chooses one book from each shortlist that best illuminates, upholds and celebrates human rights. Meet the 2018 judges.

Set up your own shadowing group

Children and young people 'shadow' the judging process for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards. Click to see how to take part.

The experts review our CILIP Honour winners

Here you can see the feedback we've had from the experts themselves on some of our recent award winners.

The Amnesty CILIP Honour winners 2017

At the start of Refugee Week in the UK, two books that address the global refugee crisis won the prestigious Amnesty CILIP Honour. Click to find out which books won.

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