| Blue Peter Book Award | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Children's literature |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | Blue Peter |
| First awarded | 2000 |
| Last awarded | 2022 |
| Television/radio coverage | |
| Network | CBBC |
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).[1]
The Book of the Year dated from 2000 when there were also some "Voters' Awards" (2000 to 2002). Previously there were award categories for:
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).[2]
| Year | Category | Author | Title | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Book of the Year | Geraldine McCaughrean, illus. by Jason Cockcroft | A Pilgrim's Progress, retelling of The Pilgrim's Progress | |
| Best Book to Read Aloud | Julia Donaldson, illus. by Axel Scheffler | The Gruffalo | ||
| Book I Couldn't Put Down | Alan Gibbons | Shadow of the Minotaur | ||
| Special Book to Keep Forever | Geraldine McCaughrean, illus. by Jason Cockcroft | A Pilgrim's Progress | ||
| Voters' Awards: Best Book With Facts in It | Guinness Book of World Records | |||
| Voters' Awards: Best Book to Share | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | ||
| Voters' Awards: Book that Made Me Laugh the Loudest | Roald Dahl, illus. by Quentin Blake | Matilda | ||
| 2001 | Book of the Year | William Nicholson | The Wind Singer | |
| Best Book to Keep Forever | Geraldine McCaughrean | The Kite Rider | ||
| Best Book to Read Aloud | Allan Ahlberg and Paul Howard | The Bravest Ever Bear | ||
| Book I Couldn't Put Down | William Nicholson | The Wind Singer | ||
| Voters' Awards: Best Book of Knowledge | Terry Deary | Rotten Romans | ||
| Voters' Awards: Best Storybook | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | ||
| 2002 | Book of the Year | Nicky Singer | Feather Boy | |
| Best Book to Read Aloud | Ted Dewan | Crispin, the Pig Who Had It All | ||
| Best New Information Book | Lucy Lethbridge | Ada Lovelace: The Computer Wizard of Victorian England | ||
| Book I Couldn't Put Down | Nicky Singer | Feather Boy | ||
| Voter's Awards: Best Book With Facts In | Terry Deary, illus. by Martin Brown | Terrible Tudors | ||
| Voter's Awards: Best Storybook | Jacqueline Wilson | The Story of Tracy Beaker | ||
| 2003 | Book of the Year | Philip Reeve | Mortal Engines | |
| Best Book to Read Aloud | Julia Donaldson, illus. by Axel Scheffler | Room on the Broom | ||
| Best Book with Facts | Richard Platt, illus. by Chris Riddell | Pirate Diary | ||
| Book I Couldn't Put Down | Philip Reeve | Mortal Engines | ||
| 2004 | Book of the Year | Simon Bartram | Man on the Moon | |
| Best Book with Facts | Daniel Hahn, Leonie Flynn, and Susan Reuben (eds.) | The Ultimate Book Guide | ||
| Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud | Simon Bartram | Man on the Moon | ||
| Book I Couldn't Put Down | Eleanor Updale | Montmorency | ||
| 2005 | Book of the Year | Michael Morpurgo | Private Peaceful | |
| Best Book with Facts | Simon Chapman | Explorers Wanted! At the North Pole | ||
| Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud | Julia Donaldson, illus. by Axel Scheffler | The Snail and the Whale | ||
| Book I Couldn't Put Down | Michael Morpurgo | Private Peaceful | ||
| 2006 | Book of the Year | Oliver Jeffers | Lost and Found | |
| Best Book with Facts | Giles Thaxton | Spud Goes Green | ||
| Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud | Oliver Jeffers | Lost and Found | ||
| Book I Couldn't Put Down | Charlie Higson | Blood Fever | ||
| 2007 | Book of the Year | S. F. Said, illus. by Dave McKean | The Outlaw Varjak Paw | |
| Best Book with Facts | Tony Robinson | The Worst Children's Jobs in History | ||
| Book I Couldn't Put Down | S. F. Said, illus. by Dave McKean | The Outlaw Varjak Paw | ||
| Most Fun Story With Pictures | Andy Stanton and David Tazzyman | You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum | ||
| 2008 | Prize didn't run | [3] | ||
| 2009 | Book of the Year | Matt Haig | Shadow Forest | |
| 2010 | Book of the Year | Ali Sparkes | Frozen in Time | |
| 2011 | Book of the Year | Lauren St. John | Dead Man's Cove | |
| 2012 | Book of the Year | Gareth P. Jones | The Considine Curse | |
| 2013 | Best Book with Facts | Nick Arnold and Tony De Saulles | House of Horrors | |
| Best Story | Liz Pichon | Tom Gates: Genius Ideas (Mostly) | ||
| 2014 | Best Book with Facts | Tony Robinson, illus. by Del Thorpe | Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: World War II | |
| Best Story | Katherine Rundell | Rooftoppers | ||
| 2015 | Best Book with Facts | Andy Seed, illus. by Scott Garrett | The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff | [2] |
| Best Story | Pamela Butchart, illus. by Thomas Flintham | The Spy Who Loved School Dinners | [2] | |
| 2016 | Best Book with Facts | Adam Frost | The Epic Book of Epicness | [4] |
| Best Story | Ross MacKenzie | The Nowhere Emporium | [4] | |
| 2017 | Best Book with Facts | David Long, illus. by Kerry Hyndman | Survivors | [5] |
| Best Story | Kieran Larwood, illus. by David Wyatt | Podkin One Ear | [5] | |
| 2018 | Best Book with Facts | Susan Martineau, illus. by Vicky Barker | Real-Life Mysteries | [6] |
| Best Story | Cressida Cowell | The Wizards of Once | [6] | |
| 2019 | Best Book with Facts | Clive Gifford, illus. by Marc-Etienne Peintre | The Colours of History | [7] |
| Best Story | Onjali Q. Rauf | The Boy at the Back of the Class | [7] | |
| 2020 | Best Book with Facts | Amanda Li, illus. by Amy Blackwell, designed by Kim Hankinson and Jack Clucas | Rise Up: Ordinary Kids with Extraordinary Stories | [8] |
| Best Story | Vashti Hardy | Wildspark | [8] | |
| 2021 | Best Book with Facts | Mike Barfield, illus. by Jess Bradley | A Day in the Life of a Poo, A Gnu And You | [9] |
| Best Story | Elle McNicoll | A Kind of Spark | [9] | |
| 2022 | Best Book with Facts | Christiane Dorian, illus. by Gosia Herba | Invented by Animals | [10] |
| Best Story | Hannah Gold | The Last Bear | [10] | |
Prize didn't run.[16]
