Blue Peter Book Awards
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The Blue Peter Book Awards are a series of literary prizes for children's literature awarded annually by the BBC television programme Blue Peter, and inaugurated in 2000.
An overall award, The Blue Peter Book of the Year, is selected from the winners of three categories: "The Book I Couldn't Put Down", "The Best Book with Facts", and "The Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud".
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[edit] List of Prize Winners
[edit] 2007
- Book of the Year: The Outlaw Varjak Paw by S. F. Said, illustrated by Dave McKean
- Most Fun Story With Pictures: You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum by Andy Stanton and David Tazzyman
- Best Book with Facts: The Worst Children's Jobs in History by Tony Robinson
- Book I Couldn't Put Down: The Outlaw Varjak Paw by S. F. Said, illustrated by Dave McKean
[edit] 2006
- Book of the Year: Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
- Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud: Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
- Best Book with Facts: Spud Goes Green by Giles Thaxton (Egmont)
- Book I Couldn't Put Down: Blood Fever by Charlie Higson (Puffin)
[edit] 2005
- Book of the Year: Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo (Collins)
- Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud: The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Macmillan)
- Best Book with Facts: Explorers Wanted! At the North Pole by Simon Chapman (Egmont)
- Book I Couldn't Put Down: Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo (Collins)
[edit] 2004
- Book of the Year: Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram (Templar)
- Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud: Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram (Templar)
- Best Book with Facts: The Ultimate Book Guide edited by Daniel Hahn (A and C Black)
- Book I Couldn't Put Down: Montmorency by Eleanor Updale (Scholastic)
[edit] 2003
- Book of the Year: Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (Scholastic)
- Best Book to Read Aloud: Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Macmillan)
- Best Book with Facts: Pirate Diary by Richard Platt, illustrated by Chris Riddell (Walker)
- Book I Couldn't Put Down: Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (Scholastic)
[edit] 2002
- Book of the Year: Feather Boy by Nicky Singer (Collins)
- Best Book to Read Aloud: Crispin, the Pig Who Had It All by Ted Dewan (Random House)
- Best New Information Book: Ada Lovelace: The Computer Wizard of Victorian England by Lucy Lethridge
- Book I Couldn't Put Down: Feather Boy by Nicky Singer (Collins)
- Voter's Awards:
- Best Storybook: The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson (Yearling)
- Best Book With Facts In: Terrible Tudors by Terry Deary, illustrated by Martin Brown (Scholastic)
[edit] 2001
- Book of the Year: The Wind Singer by William Nicholson (Egmont)
- Best Book to Read Aloud: The Bravest Ever Bear by Allan Ahlberg and Paul Howard (Walker)
- Book I Couldn't Put Down: The Wind Singer by William Nicholson (Egmont)
- Best Book to Keep Forever: The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean (Oxford University Press)
- Voters' Awards:
- Best Storybook: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling (Bloomsbury)
- Best Book of Knowledge: Rotten Romans by Terry Deary (Scholastic)
[edit] 2000
- Book of the Year: A Pilgrim's Progress retold by Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrated by Jason Cockcroft (Hodder)
- Special Book to Keep Forever: A Pilgrim's Progress retold by Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrated by Jason Cockcroft (Hodder)
- Book I Couldn't Put Down: Shadow of the Minotaur by Alan Gibbons (Orion)
- Best Book to Read Aloud: The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Macmillan)
- Voters' Awards:
- Best Book With Facts In It: Guinness World Records 2000 (Guinness)
- Book that Made Me Laugh the Loudest: Matilda by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake (Puffin)
- Best Book to Share: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (Bloomsbury)
[edit] Shortlists
[edit] 2007
- Most Fun Story with Pictures:
- Melrose and Croc Together at Christmas by Emma Chichester Clark
- Charlie Cook's Favourite Books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
- You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum by Andy Stanton and David Tazzyman
- Best Book with Facts:
- Why is Snot Green? by Glenn Murphy
- The Worst Children's Jobs in History by Tony Robinson
- A Little Guide to Wild Flowers by Charlotte Voake
- The Book I Couldn't Put Down:
- Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce
- The Bad Spy's Guide by Pete Johnson
- The Outlaw Varjak Paw by S. F. Said, illustrated by Dave McKean
[edit] 2006
- Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud:
- Traction Man is Here by Mini Grey
- Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
- Guess Who's Coming for Dinner by John Kelly and Cathy Tincknell
- Best Book with Facts:
- Connor's Eco Den by Pippa Goodhart
- Poo by Nicola Davies and Neal Layton
- Spud Goes Green by Giles Thaxton (Egmont)
- Book I Couldn't Put Down:
- GRK and the Pelotti Gang by Joshua Doder
- Blood Fever by Charlie Higson (Puffin)
- The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo
[edit] 2005
- Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud:
- The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Macmillan)
- Biscuit Bear by Mini Grey (Red Fox)
- Aristotle by Dick King-Smith, illustrated by Bob Graham (Walker)
- Rapunzel: A Groovy Fairy Tale retold by Lynn Roberts, illustrated by David Roberts (Chrysalis)
- Best Book with Facts:
- Explorers Wanted! At the North Pole by Simon Chapman (Egmont)
- What's My Family Tree? by Mick Manning, illustrated by Brita Granström (Watts)
- Art Fraud Detective by Anna Nilsen, illustrated by Andy Parker (Kingfisher)
- Rome in spectacular cross-section by Andrew Solway, illustrated by Stephen Biesty (Oxford University Press)
- Book I Couldn't Put Down:
- Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Macmillan)
- SilverFin by Charlie Higson (Puffin)
- Thora by Gillian Johnson (Hodder)
- Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo (Collins)
[edit] 2004
- Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud:
- The Woman Who Won Things by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Katharine McEwen (Walker Books)
- Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram (Templar)
- Quiet! by Paul Bright, illustrated by Guy Parker Rees (Little Tiger Press)
- Atticus the Storyteller's 100 Greek Myths by Lucy Coats, illustrated by Anthony Lewis (Orion)
- The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Macmillan)
- Best Book with Facts:
- Journey into the Arctic by Bryan and Cherry Alexander (OUP)
- Brilliant Brits: Shakespeare by Richard Brassey (Orion)
- Who is Emily Davison? by Claudia Fitzherbert (Short Books)
- The Ultimate Book Guide edited by Daniel Hahn (A and C Black)
- I Spy: Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwaite (Collins)
- Book I Couldn't Put Down:
- Stealing Stacey by Lynne Reid Banks (Collins)
- Fat Boy Swim by Catherine Forde (Egmont)
- The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan)
- When Mum Threw Out the Telly by E. F. Smith (Orchard Books)
- Montmorency by Eleanor Updale (Scholastic)
