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Blue Peter Book Award

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

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
  • The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Raúf (Orion Children's Books)
  • The Clockwork Crow by Catherine Fisher (Firefly)
  • The House With Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson (Usborne)
2018
2017
2016
  • Best Book with Facts:
  • The Epic Book of Epicness by Adam Frost
  • The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words by Andy Seed, illus. by Scott Garrett
  • FactFeed by Penny Arlon
  • 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

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