· Northern Lights tops poll of Carnegie winners · Author says award is most important he has received
Pullman wins 'Carnegie of Carnegies'
Philip Pullman has cemented his place as one of the stars of children's literature this evening, triumphing in a poll to choose book lovers' favourite winner from the Carnegie medal's 70-year history.
Existential tale takes children's fiction prize
Meg Rosoff's uncompromising novel about a 15-year-old Luton boy's extreme identity crisis, Just in Case, has won the 70th Carnegie Medal for children's fiction.
April 2007
Poll to pick best children's book prize winner
The Carnegie gold medal for children's writing is the only one of the world's book prizes that can afford to leave out Richard Adams's Watership Down and one of C S Lewis's Narnia stories from its highest roll of honour.