Children's Literature Awards

Blue Peter Book of the Year

Overall Blue Peter Book of the Year

LOST AND FOUND by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
HarperCollins

Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud

LOST AND FOUND by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
HarperCollins

Best Book with Facts

SPUD GOES GREEN by Jake Thaxton
Egmont

The Book I Couldn't Put Down

BLOOD FEVER by Charlie Higson
Puffin

Booktrust Teenage Prize

MY SWORDHAND IS SINGING by Marcus Sedgwick
(Orion)

Booktrust Early Years Awards

Baby Book Award
TUCKING IN! by Jess Stockham (Child's Play)

Pre-School Award
PENGUIN by Polly Dunbar (Walker)

Emerging Illustrator
MONKEY AND ME by Emily Gravett (Macmillan)

The Branford Boase Award

for first-time writer and his/her editor -

Siobhan Dowd for A SWIFT PURE CRY published by David Fickling

The Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Medals

Carnegie Medal

Awarded by The Library Association for 'an outstanding book for children and young people'.

JUST IN CASE by Meg Rosoff, published by Penguin

Kate Greenaway Medal

Awarded by The Library Association for 'outstanding illustration in a children's book'.

THE ADVENTURES OF THE DISH AND THE SPOON by Mini Grey published by Jonathan Cape

Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) Poetry Award

THE THING THAT MATTERED MOST, SCOTTISH POEMS FOR CHILDREN (Black & White Publishing)
Edited by Julie Johnstone

Children's Laureate

Michael Rosen is the fifth CHILDREN'S LAUREATE

Recently announced as the most borrowed author in UK libraries, Michael Rosen succeeds Jacqueline Wilson (2005-2007), Michael Morpurgo (2003-2005), Anne Fine (2001-2003) and Quentin Blake (1999-2001)

As Children's Laureate Michael receives £10,000 and an impressive gold and silver medallion.

Guardian Children's Fiction Award

FINDING VIOLET PARK
by Jenny Valentine (HarperCollins)

Hans Christian Andersen Awards

MARSH AWARD for Children's Literature in translation (Awarded bi-annually)

Awarded to Anthea Bell for her translation from German of

THE FLOWING QUEEN by Kai Meyer (Egmont)

The Red House Children's Book Awards

Books for Younger Children:

WHO'S IN THE LOO

by Jeanne Willis and Adrian Reynolds
Andersen Press

Books for Younger Readers:

YOU'RE A BAD MAN MR. GUM!

by Andy Stanton
Egmont

Books for Older Readers:

GIRL MISSING

by Sophie McKenzie
Simon & Schuster

Overall winner:

YOU'RE A BAD MAN MR. GUM!

by Andy Stanton
Egmont

Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Winners

AGE 5 AND UNDER

WHEN A MONSTER IS BORN by Sean Taylor and Nick Sharratt
(Orchard)

AGE 6 - 8 YEARS

OTTOLINE AND THE YELLOW CAT by Chris Riddell
(Macmillan)

AGE 9 - 11 YEARS

SHADOW FOREST by Matt Haig
(Bodley Head)

COSTA Children's Book of the Year Award

THE BOWER BIRD by Ann Kelley (Luath Press)