Established names dominate the shortlists for the UK's most prestigious children's books awards, the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, announced today.

Patrick Ness is shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for The Rest of Us Just Live Here, a subversive fantasy about a group of “indie kids” who are trying to save the world. If he wins, he will be the first author to win the Carnegie Medal three times, having received the award in 2011 for Monsters of Men and again in 2012 for A Monster Calls, which also received the Kate Greenaway Medal for Jim Kay's illustrations. Joining Ness on the shortlist is Frances Hardinge, whose The Lie Tree won the Costa Book of the Year Award in January, but Terry Pratchett's final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, has not progressed from longlist stage.