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Blue Peter Book Award
Awarded forChildren's literature
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBlue Peter
First awarded2000; 24 years ago (2000)
Last awarded2022; 2 years ago (2022)
Television/radio coverage
NetworkCBBC

The Blue Peter Book Awards were a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme Blue Peter. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999 and 2000. The awards were managed by reading charity, BookTrust, from 2006 until the final award in 2022. From 2013 until the final award, there were two award categories: Best Story and Best Book with Facts.

The awards were discontinued in 2022, one month after the end of the Costa Book Awards, which included a category for children's book, leaving only three widely recognized awards for children's literature (the Kate Greenaway Medal, the Carnegie Medal, and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize).

Categories

The Book of the Year dated from 2000 when there were also some "Voters' Awards" (2000 to 2002). Previously there were award categories for:

  • Most Fun Story with Pictures, from 2007
  • Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud, 2004 to 2006
  • Best Book with Facts, from 2003
  • Best New Information Book, 2002
  • Favourite Story, 2011
  • Book I Couldn't Put Down, 2000 to 2010

Three books in each category were announced 4 December 2014 and considered by the panel of 200 children from 10 schools. The two winners for the 2015 awards were announced on 5 March 2015, or World Book Day (UK and Ireland).

Winners

2022
  • Best story: The Last Bear by Hannah Gold
  • Best Book with Facts: Invented by Animals by Christiane Dorian, illus. Gosia Herba
2021
  • Best story: A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll
  • Best Book with Facts: A Day in the Life of a Poo, A Gnu And You by Mike Barfield, illus. Jess Bradley
2020
  • Best story: Wildspark by Vashti Hardy
  • Best Book with Facts: Rise Up: Ordinary Kids with Extraordinary Stories by Amanda Li, illus. Amy Blackwell designed by Kim Hankinson and Jack Clucas
2019
  • Best story: The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf
  • Best Book with Facts: The Colours of History by Clive Gifford, illus. Marc-Etienne Peintre
2018
2017
2016
  • Best Story: The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie
  • Best Book with Facts: The Epic Book of Epicness by Adam Frost
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
  • Book of the Year: Dead Man's Cove (Laura Marlin Mysteries, 1) by Lauren St John (Orion)
2010
2009
2008

Prize didn't run.

2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000

Shortlists

2020
  • Best Book with Facts:
    • Rise Up: Ordinary Kids with Extraordinary Stories by Amanda Li, illus. Amy Blackwell designed by Kim Hankinson and Jack Clucas (Buster Books)
    • Fanatical About Frogs by Owen Davey (Flying Eye)
    • How To Be An Astronaut and Other Space Jobs by Dr Sheila Kanani & Sol Linero (Nosy Crow)
  • Best Story
    • Wildspark by Vashti Hardy (Scholastic)
    • Owen and the Soldier by Lisa Thompson, illus. Mike Lowery (Barrington Stoke)
    • Vote for Effie by Laura Wood (Scholastic)
2019
  • Best Book with Facts:
    • The Colours of History by Clive Gifford, illus. Marc-Etienne Peintre (QED Publishing)
    • Professor Astro Cat’s Human Body Odyssey by Dr Dominic Walliman, illus. Ben Newman (Flying Eye Books)
    • The Element in the Room: Investigating the Atomic Ingredients that Make Up Your Home by Mike Barfield, illus. Lauren Humphrey (Laurence King)
  • Best Story
2018
2017
2016
  • Best Book with Facts:
  • Best Story:
    • The Astounding Broccoli Boy by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, illus. by Steven Lenton
    • The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair by Lara Williamson
    • The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008

Prize didn't run.

2007
2006
2005
2004

See also

References

  1. "Children's books world reacts to 'horrible loss' of Blue Peter book awards". The Guardian. 6 July 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Blue Peter Book Awards 2015 Winners Announced". 5 March 2015. Booktrust. Retrieved 2015-04-14.
  3. "Blue Peter Book Awards 2022". www.booktrust.org.uk. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  4. "Blue Peter Book Awards 2021". BookTrust. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Blue Peter Book Awards 2020". BookTrust. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  6. "Blue Peter Book Awards 2019". BookTrust. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  7. "Blue Peter Book Awards 2018". BookTrust. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  8. "Blue Peter Book Awards 2017". BookTrust. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  9. Drabble, Emily (3 March 2016). "Adam Frost and Ross MacKenzie win Blue Peter book awards 2016". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  10. ^ "Blue Peter Book Awards 2015". Booktrust (booktrust.co.uk). Retrieved 2014-10-18. With list of past winners.
  11. BookTrust – Blue Peter Book Awards 2019
  12. BookTrust – Blue Peter Book Awards 2018
  13. BookTrust – Blue Peter Book Awards 2017
  14. BookTrust – Blue Peter Book Awards 2016
  15. BookTrust – Blue Peter Book Awards 2015
  16. BookTrust – Blue Peter Book Awards archive

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