Which C.S. Lewis book won the Carnegie Medal for children’s fiction in 1956?

C.S. Lewis’s The Last Battle won the Carnegie Medal for children’s fiction in 1956.

The Last Battle is the seventh and final published volume of The Chronicles of Narnia. It was released in 1956 and concludes the series with a conflict involving the false Aslan, the Calormene invasion, and the collapse of the familiar Narnian world.

The Carnegie Medal is a major British children’s book award presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. The award recognised Lewis’s concluding Narnia novel in the year after its publication, adding an important distinction to the series’ publication history.

A common mix-up is the order of the Narnia books. The Last Battle was the final book published, while The Magician’s Nephew is often placed first in the story’s internal chronology. The Silver Chair and The Horse and His Boy are also Narnia novels, but neither received the 1956 Carnegie Medal.