Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video

Andrew Carnegie Award for excellence in children's video

The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children’s Video, supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, was awarded for the first time in 1991 to honor outstanding video productions for children released during the previous year. The annual award is given to the video’s producer by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, through a Carnegie endowment.

2007 Medalist Knuffle Bunny After Trixie and daddy leave the laundromat, something very important turns up missing.

2006 - The Man Who Walked Between theTowers
A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.

2005 - The Dot
Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind. From the illustrator of the Judy Moody series comes a simple, witty story that entices even the stubbornly uncreative to make a mark and follow it on a journey of surprise and self-discovery.

2004 - Giggle Giggle Quack
Based upon the book by Doreen Cronin. When Farmer Brown goes on vacation, leaving his brother Bob in charge, Duck makes trouble by changing all his instructions to notes the animals like much better.
2003 - So You Want To Be President?
Based upon the book by Judith St. George with illustrations by Caldecott Medal winning illustrator David Small, this animated program celebrates the public and private lives of the forty-two presidents of the United States. Narrated by Stockard Channing, the program presents biographical information and humorous anecdotes about each president. Featuring music by Scotty Huff and Robert Reynolds.
2002 - My Louisiana Sky
Dante Di Loreto and Anthony Edwards of Aviator Films and Willard Carroll and Tom Wilhite of Hyperion Studio During the most auspicious summer of her life, Tiger Ann experiences loss and grief, a first kiss, a glimpse of sophisticated city life and family secrets before ultimately finding her place in the world.
2001 - Antarctic Antics
Paul R. Gagne for Weston Woods Studio “At the bottom of the planet lies a land of ice and granite…Antarctica!…come visit on a lark-tica, but don’t forget your park-tica”. This engaging video transforms the poetry of the book by Judy Sierra into ballads of the penguin world.
2000 - Miss Nelson Has a Field Day
Paul R. Gagne for Weston Woods Studio “Miss Nelson Has a Field Day,” based on the book by Harry Allard, is a hilarious video in which the notorious Viola Swamp takes it upon herself to whip the Horace B. Smedley School’s football team into shape before the big Thanksgiving Day game.
1999 - The First Christmas
Producer Frank Moynihan, directed by Linsay van Blerk and distributed by billy budd films, inc. Using clay animation, the video tells the well-known story of the birth of Jesus. Narrated by Christopher Plummer, accompanied by traditional Christmas music, this rendition is enhanced by colloquial dialogue and delightful touches of humor.
1998 - Willa: An American Snow White
by Tom Davenport, of Davenport Films The classic Grimm Tale is reset in Virginia in 1915 as innocent young Willa is forced from home by her stepmother, an aging actress obsessed with her fading beauty. Willa joins three colorful actors in a traveling medicine show and in a multi-layered, fascinating adaptation, finds Shakespeare, an apple, and true love in the person of a handsome moving picture maker.
1996 - Owen
Paul R. Gagne, based on the book by Kevin Henkes Takes a humorous look at childhood. LeVar Burton explores positive ways that children can deal with changes in everyday life and growing up.
1995 - Whitewash
Michael Sporn A young African-American girl is traumatized when a gang attacks her and her brother on their way home from school and spray-paints her face white. Based on a true story.
1994 - Eric Carle: Picture Writer
Rawn Fulton Eric invites you into his own studio where he reads from three of his most popular books and shows how, step by step, he prepares his colorful tisue papers and creates brilliant collage pictures.