Shark and Chips, K.M. Peyton; The Fancy-Dress Party, Marjorie Darke; Super Gran's Pedal Power, Forrest Wilson; Crash Landing, Gillian Cross; Program Loop, Jill Paton Walsh; Snake in the Grass, Helen Cresswell; Vera Pratt and the Tale of the Cow, Brough Girling; The Tin Telephone, Nicholas Fisk; Henry Hangs On, Ann Pilling; Mr Browser's Nightmare, Philip Curtis; The Shoe Maker's Boy, Joan Aiken; William Darling, Anne Fine; The Old Woman Who Lived in a Cola Can, Bernard Ashley.