Booktrust Early Years Award
The Booktrust Early Years Awards, formerly known as the Sainsbury’s Baby Book Award, are a series of literary prizes for children's picture books awarded annually. The prize is administered by Booktrust, an independent charity which promotes books and reading; prior to 2004 it was sponsored by the supermarket chain Sainsbury's.
There are currently three categories: the Baby Book Award, the Pre-School Award, and the Best Emerging Illustrator Award. The winners of each category receive £2000, with the Emerging Illustrator also receiving a specially commissioned award. The publishers of the winning books are each given an award as well.
List of prize winners
- 2008
- Baby Book Award: Georgie Birkett, Is This My Nose? (Red Fox)
- Pre-School Award: Jeanne Willis & Gwen Millward, The Bog Baby (Puffin Books)
- Best Emerging Illustrator Award: Tim Hopgood, for Here Comes Frankie! (Macmillan Children's Books)
- 2007
- Baby Book Award: Jess Stockham, Tucking In! (Child's Play)
- Pre-School Award: Polly Dunbar, Penguin (Walker Books)
- Best Emerging Illustrator Award: Emily Gravett, for Monkey and Me (Macmillan)
- 2006
- Baby Book Award: Mandy Stanley, How Do You Feel? (HarperCollins Children's)
- Pre-School Award: Sam Lloyd, Mr Pusskins (Orchard Books)
- Best New Illustrator Award: Catherine Rayner, for Augustus and His Smile (Little Tiger Press)
- 2005
- Baby Book Award: Lara Jones, Poppy Cat’s Farm (Campbell Books)
- Pre-School Award: Jack Tickle, The Very Dizzy Dinosaur (Little Tiger Press)
- Best New Illustrator Award: Kanako Usui, for The Fantastic Mr Wani (Little Tiger Press)
- 2004
- Baby Book Award: David Ellwand & Mike Jolley, I Love You! (Templar)
- Pre-School Award: Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler, The Snail and the Whale (Macmillan)
- Best New Illustrator Award: Polly Horner, for Polly and the North Star (Orion)
- 2003
- Sam Lloyd, Happy Dog, Sad Dog (Little Tiger Press)
- 2002
- Annie Kubler, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (Child's Play)
- 2001
- Sandra Lousada, Baby Faces (Baby Campbell)
- 2000
- Alex Ayliffe, Boo Barney (Orchard Books)
- 1999
Shortlists
- 2008
- Baby Book Award:
- Angela Brooksbank, Baby's Very First Book: Day (Campbell Books)
- Dawn Sirett & Rachael Parfitt, Baby Loves Peekaboo! (Dorling Kindersley)
- Tim Warnes & Jane Chapman, Daddy Hug (HarperCollins Children's Books)
- Justine Smith & Fiona Land, Baby Touch: Playtime Book and DVD (Ladybird)
- Georgie Birkett, Is This My Nose? (Red Fox)
- Emily Hawkins & Emma Dodd, Amazing Baby: Rainbow Fun! (Templar)
- Pre-School Award:
- David Bedford & Russell Julian, It's a George Thing! (Egmont Books)
- Joanna Harrison, Grizzly Dad (David Fickling Books)
- Andy Cutbill & Russell Ayto, The Cow That Laid an Egg (HarperCollins Children's Books)
- Chris Riddell, Wendel's Workshop (Macmillan Children's Books)
- Jeanne Willis & Gwen Millward, The Bog Baby (Puffin Books)
- Jeanne Willis & Garry Parsons, There's An Ouch in My Pouch! (Puffin Books)
- Best Emerging Illustrator Award:
- Victoria Ball, for That Yucky Love Thing (Gullane Children's Books)
- Tim Hopgood, for Here Comes Frankie! (Macmillan Children's Books)
- Alex T. Smith, for Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero (Scholastic Children's Books)
- Joe Berger, for Bridget Fidget (Puffin Books)
- Gwen Millward, for The Bog Baby (Puffin Books)
- Vicky White, for Ape (Walker Books)
- 2007
- Baby Book Award:
- David McKee, Elmer’s First Counting Book (Andersen Press)
- Justine Smith & Fiona Land, Baby Touch: Noisy Book (Ladybird)
- Justine Smith & Fiona Land, Baby Touch: Peekaboo Book (Ladybird)
- Jess Stockham, Looking Good! (Child’s Play)
- Jess Stockham, Tucking In! (Child's Play)
- Dr Miriam Stoppard, Happy Baby (Dorling Kindersley)
- Pre-School Award:
- Best Emerging Illustrator Award:
- Jason Chapman, for Ted, Bo and Diz: The First Adventure (Little Tiger Press)
- Emily Gravett, for Monkey and Me (Macmillan)
- Viviane Schwarz, for Timothy and the Strong Pyjamas (Alison Green Books)
- Anna Wadham, for The Ant and the Big Bad Bully Goat - written by Andrew Fusek Peters (Child’s Play)
- 2006
- Baby Book Award:
- Marie Birkinshaw & Kate Merritt, Night, Night, Baby (Ladybird)
- Kathy Henderson & Paul Howard, Look at You! (Walker Books)
- Annie Kubler, Peek-a-Boo! (Child’s Play)
- Luana Rinaldo, Clackety-Clacks: Bee (Campbell Books)
- Mandy Stanley, How Do You Feel? (HarperCollins Children's)
- Fiona Watt & Catherine-Anne MacKinnon, Sleepy Baby (Usborne)
- Pre-School Award:
- Best Emerging Illustrator Award:
- Sebastien Braun, for I Love My Mummy (Boxer Books)
- Petra Brown, for If Big Can... I Can - written by Beth Shoshan (Meadowside)
- Natalie Chivers, for Dad’s Bug Bear - written by Peter Dixon (Red Fox)
- Catherine Rayner, for Augustus and His Smile (Little Tiger Press)
- 2005
- Baby Book Award:
- John Butler, Can You Cuddle Like a Koala? (Little Orchard)
- DK Team, Bathtime Peekaboo! (Dorling Kindersley)
- Lara Jones, Poppy Cat’s Farm (Campbell Books)
- Tony Maddox, Not So Loud, Oliver! (Little Orchard)
- Joanne Partis, Look at Me! (Chrysalis Books)
- Nicola Smee, No Bed Without Ted (Bloomsbury)
- Pre-School Award:
- Jez Alborough, Duck's Key Where Can it be? (HarperCollins Children's)
- Caroline Jayne Church, Pond Goose (OUP)
- Atsuko Morozumi, My Friend Gorilla (Mathew Price Books)
- Jan Ormerod & Lindsey Gardiner, Doing the Animal Bop (OUP)
- Jack Tickle, The Very Dizzy Dinosaur (Little Tiger Press)
- Kaye Umansky & Chris Fisher, A Chair for Baby Bear (OUP)
- Best New Illustrator Award:
- Heather Allen, for Little Green Monsters - written by Alec Sillifant (Meadowside)
- Uwe Mayer, for Eric the Liontamer - written by Rachel Elliot (Meadowside)
- Rob Scotton, for Russell the Sheep (HarperCollins Children's)
- Kanako Usui, for The Fantastic Mr Wani (Little Tiger Press)
- 2003
- Roger Priddy, Baby Activity Centre (Priddy Books)
- Sam Lloyd, Happy Dog, Sad Dog (Little Tiger Press)
- Fiona Watt & Rachel Wells, That’s Not My Bear (Usborne Publishing)
- DK Team, Baby Fun: Five in the Bed (Dorling Kindersley)
- Lara Jones, Goodnight, Poppy Cat (Campbell Books)
- Amanda Wood & Fiona Macmillan, Baby Boo! (Templar).
- 2001
- Debi Gliori, Where, Oh Where, is Baby Bear? (Little Orchard)
- Annie Kubler, If You're Happy and You Know It... (Child's Play)
- Jo Lodge, Baby's Very First Book: Farm (Baby Campbell)
- Sandra Lousada, Baby Faces (Baby Campbell)
- Mandy Ross & Kate Merritt, Peekaboo Baby! (Ladybird)
- Nicola Smee, Sleepyhead (Baby Campbell)
- 1999
- Steve Bland, Woof! (Macmillan)
- Lucy Cousins, Humpty Dumpty and Other Nursery Rhymes (Macmillan)
- Debbie MacKinnon & Anthea Sieveking, Find My Cake! (Frances Lincoln)
- Jan Ormerod, Peek-a-Boo! (Dutton)
- Helen Oxenbury, Tickle, Tickle (Walker Books)
- Nick Sharratt, A Bear with a Pear (Macmillan)
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