Blue Peter Book Award
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".
List of Prize Winners
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
2006
2005
2004
2003
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:
2001
2000
- Book of the Year: A Pilgrim's Progress retold by Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrated by Jason Cockcroft (Hodder)
- Voters' Awards:
Shortlists
2011
- Most Fun Story with Pictures:
- Lunatics and Luck (The Raven Mysteries) by Marcus Sedgwick, illustrated by Pete Williamson (Orion Children's Books)
- Alienography by Chris Riddell (Macmillan)
- Mr Gum and the Cherry Tree by Andy Stanton, illustrated by David Tazzyman (Egmont)
- Best Book with Facts:
- Do Igloos Have Loos by Mitchell Symons (Doubleday)
- How the World Works by Christian Dorion, illustrated by Beverley Young, pop-ups designed by Andy Mansfield (Templar Publishing)
- What You Need To Know Now: The World in Facts, Stats, and Graphics by Joe Fullman, Ian Graham, Sally Regan and Isabel Thomas, illustrated by Sheila Collins, Mik Gates, Jim Green, Katie Knutton, Phillip Letsu and Hoa Luc (Dorling Kindersley)
- Favourite Story
- Dead Man's Cove (A Laura Marlin Mystery) by Lauren St John (Orion Children’s Books)
- A Web of Air (Mortal Engines) by Philip Reeve (Scholastic Children’s Books)
- Tall Story by Candy Gourlay (David Fickling Books)
2010
- Most Fun Story with Pictures:
- Peter the Penguin Pioneer by Daren King (Quercus)
- Spells by Emily Gravett (Macmillan)
- Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things by Guy Bass (Stripes)
- Best Book with Facts:
- Usborne Lift-the-flap Picture Atlas by Alex Frith and Kate Leake (Usborne)
- Tail-End Charlie by Mick Manning and Brita Granstorm (Frances Lincoln Children's Books)
- Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You by Mitchell Symons (Red Fox)
- Book I couldn't Put Down
2008
- Most Fun Story with Pictures:
- Best Book with Facts:
- Archaeology Detectives by Simon Adams (Oxford University Press)
- 100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet by Anna Claybourne (A&C Black)
- Horrible Geography Handbooks: Planet in Peril by Anita Ganeri, illustrated by Mike Phillips (Scholastic)
- The Book I Couldn't Put Down:
2007
- Most Fun Story with Pictures:
- 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:
2006
- Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud:
- 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:
2005
- Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud:
- Best Book with Facts:
- Book I Couldn't Put Down:
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2004
- Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud:
- 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:
See also
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