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Blue Peter Children's Book Awards

Annual

For further information contact:
Scottish Book Trust
137 Dundee Street
Edinburgh EH11 1BG
tel.0131 229 3663
fax 0131 228 4293
website: www.scottishbooktrust.com

The Blue Peter Book Awards were launched in 2000. They are run by BBC Children's Programme 'Blue Peter' and awarded alongside the Reading Relay project which is being run by public libraries throughout the UK.

There are two main sections to these awards: The Judges' Awards and The Voters' Awards, and within each section are several different categories.

The shortlists for The Judges' Awards are selected by a celebrity judging panel from paperback titles published in the UK in the previous year. These books are then read by Blue Peter Young Judges, selected as a result of a Blue Peter Book Review Competition, who chose the winners for each category. The three categories within this section are: The Best Book to Keep Forever; The Book I Couldn't Put Down; and The Best Book to Read Aloud. From these three winning titles, a Book of the Year is selected.

The Voters' Awards are voted for by children across the UK via their local library. The 2002 awards comprised two categories: The Best Storybook and The Best Book of Knowledge.

2006 Winners

The Book I Couldn't Put Down:

Blood Fever
by Charlie Higson

The Best Book With Facts in it:

Spud Goes Green
by Giles Thaxton

Blue Peter Book of the Year & The Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud

Lost and Found
by Oliver Jeffers

2005 Winners

Blue Peter Book of the Year & The Book I Couldn't Put Down:

Private Peaceful
by Michael Morpurgo

The Best Book With Facts in it:

Explorers wanted! At the North Pole
by Simon Chapman

The Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud

The Snail and the Whale
by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler


2004 Winners

The Book I Couldn't Put Down:

Montmorency
by Eleanor Updale
(Scholastic)

The Best Book With Facts in it:

The Ultimate Book Guide
edited by Daniel Hahn
(A & C Black)

Blue Peter Book of the Year & The Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud

Man on the Moon
written and illustrated by Simon Bartram
(Templar)


2003 Winners

Blue Peter Book of the Year & The Book I Couldn't Put Down:

MORTAL ENGINES
Philip Reeve
(Scholastic)

The Best Book With Facts in it:

PIRATE DIARY
Richard Platt & Chris Riddell
(Walker Books)

The Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud

ROOM ON THE BROOM
Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
(Macmillan)

2002 Winners

The Best New Information Book:

ADA LOVELACE
Lucy Lethbridge

The Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud:

CRISPIN, THE PIG WHO HAD IT ALL
Ted Dewan

The Book I Couldn't Put Down and Overall Winner:

FEATHER BOY
Nicky Singer

2001 Winners

The Judges' Awards

The Best Book to Keep Forever
Geraldine McCaughrean The Kite Rider (Oxford University Press)

The Book I Couldn't Put Down and also winner of The Blue Peter 2001 Book of the Year Award
William Nicholson The Wind Singer (Egmont)

The Best Book to Read Aloud
Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Paul Howard The Bravest Ever Bear (Walker)

The Voters' Awards

The Best Storybook
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Bloomsbury)

The Best Book of Knowledge
Terry Deary Rotten Romans (Scholastic)

2000

The Judges' Awards:

A Special Book to Keep Forever and also winner of The Blue Peter Book of the Year Award
Retold by Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrated by Jason Cockcroft A Pilgrim's Progress (Hodder)

The Book I Couldn't Put Down
Alan Gibbons Shadow of the Minotaur (Orion)

The Best Book to Read Aloud
Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler The Gruffalo(Macmillan)

The Voters' Awards:

The Best Book With Facts in it
Guinness World Records 2000 (Guinness)

The Book that Made Me Laugh the Loudest
Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake Matilda (Puffin)

The Best Book to Share
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Bloomsbury)