The awards were established in 1992 to encourage the development of high quality books for children and their teachers.

Children’shortlist: Crab-boy Cranc by Julie Rainsbury, Pont pound;3.50 Dolphin Boy by Julie Bertagna, Egmont Children’s Books pound;3.99 Dreaming in Black amp; White by Reinhardt Jung, Egmont Children’s Books pound;3.99 Friends: Going Shopping, Going on a School Trip,At the Seaside, Birthday Party, Playing in a Band, Going Swimming by Diane Church, Watts Publishing Group pound;9.99 each The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan, Simon amp;Schuster pound;7.99 Truth or Date by Celia Rees, Macmillan pound;3.99 Susan Laughs by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross, Andersen Press pound;9.99 Academic shortlist: Combating Educational Disadvantage: meeting the needs of vulnerable children edited by Theo Cox, Falmer Press pound;18.99 Defying Disaffection: how schools are winning the hearts and minds of reluctant students by Reva Klein, Trentham Books pound;10.95 The Education of Children with Medical Conditions edited by Alison Closs, David Fulton Publishers pound;16.50 Martian in the Playground: understanding the school child with Asperger’s Syndrome by Clare Sainsbury, Lucky Duck Publishing pound;12 Special Education and School Reform in the United States and Britain edited by Margaret J McLaughlin and Martyn Rouse, Routledge pound;17.99 Working Towards Inclusion Education: social contexts by Peter Mittler, David Fulton Publishers pound;16