The shortlist for this year

The shortlist for this year's Kate Greenaway Medal for outstanding illustration in a children's book has been described as a 'kaleidoscopic feast of illustrated books'. The shortlist is: Jez Alborough's Fix-it Duck, for children aged three and up (Picture Lions); Russell Ayto's The Witch's Children, for seven and up (Orchard Books); Nicola Bayley with Katie the Windmill Cat, for six and up (Walker Books); Caroline Binch's Silver Shoes, for four and up (Dorling Kindersley); Helen Cooper's Tatty Ratty, for three and up (Doubleday); Charles Fuge's Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball, for two and up (Gullane Publishing);...