NOMINATED - CILIP KATE GREENAWAY MEDALAll animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. It's just an ordinary farm - until the animals revolt. The other animals are sure that life is improving, but as systems are replaced and half-truths are retold, a new hierarchy emerges .

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. When the animals overthrow the oppressive Mr. Jones, they think their problems are over, but in Orwell's great indictment of the Russian Revolution, they find that power corrupts and they have merely swapped one form of tyranny for another.