Who will win the coveted 2011 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals?

This year's shortlists offer the usual high standards and broad range of styles and genres. Will the medals go to previous winners, old favourites or newcomers? The medals will be presented to the lucky two tomorrow but who do you think will win? Place your bets now.

Carnegie Medal shortlist

Prisoner of the Inquisition by Theresa Breslin (previously won in 1994 for Whispers in the Graveyard)

The Death Defying Pepper Roux by Geraldine McCaughrean (previously won in 1988 for A Pack of Lies)

Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff (previously won in 2007 for Just In Case)

White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick

Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace (debut author)

Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist

FArTHER by Grahame Baker-Smith

Me and You by Anthony Browne (previously won in 1992 for Zoo, and 1983 for Gorilla)

April Underhill, Tooth Fairy by Bob Graham (previously won in 2002 for Jethro Byrde-Fairy Child)

Jim by Mini Grey (text by Hilaire Belloc) (previously won in 2007 for The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon)

Big Bear Little Brother by Kristin Oftedal (text by Carl Norac)

The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers

Ernest by Catherine Rayner (previously won in 2009 for Harris Find His Fee)

Cloud Tea Monkeys by Juan Wijngaard (text by Mal Peet and Elspeth Graham) (previously won in 1985 for Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady)

My money's on Ness and Jeffers this year.

Find out more about the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals here.