WINNERS OF THE 2012 WISHING SHELF AWARDS

CATEGORY 1 Pre-School Picture Books

GOLD The Red Boat, Hannah Cumming
SILVER Learn to Read: Super Sam and the Hunt for Treasure (Treasurek), Anne Dannerolle
BRONZE Rabbityness, Joe Empson

CATEGORY 2 6 – 8 Year Olds

GOLD Christmas Steps. New Rhymes for the Season, Mary Ann O'Leary
SILVER Where's My Bloomers? Jo Bright
BRONZE There's A Monster Under My Bed! Sammy Sutterton

CATEGORY 3 9 – 12 Year Olds

GOLD Chosen, Neil Harrison
SILVER Ante's Inferno, Griselda Heppel
BRONZE James Clyde and the Diamonds of Orchestra, Colm McElwain

CATEGORY 4 Teenagers

GOLD Sun Fish, Moon Fish, Morag Lewis
SILVER Neil's War, Neil W. Murphy
BRONZE FireSeed One, Catherine Stine

CATEGORY 5 Adults (Fiction)

GOLD Black Bird, White Bird, Peter Gauld
SILVER Dangerous Waters, Anne Allen
BRONZE (joint) The Flowers of Evil. An Entertainment, Simon Acland
BRONZE (joint) Black Eagle Force: Eye of the Storm, Buck Steinke and Ken Farmer

CATEGORY 6 Adult (Non-Fiction)

GOLD India. Through Alien Eyes, Mohan and Narottam Mishra
SILVER An Ordinary Spectator: 50 Years of Watching Sport, John Rigg
BRONZE (joint) The Sky's the Limit, Susie Bennett
BRONZE (joint) Passing Through the Woods, David Gwilym Anthony

Honourable Mention

A Life in Death - Memoirs of a Cotswold Funeral Director, James Baker
Problem Box, Catherine Brighton