The shortlisted titles for the Blue Peter Book Awards are:
The Book I Couldn?t Put Down
Fat Boy Swim by Catherine Forde (Egmont)
The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan)
Montmorency by Eleanor Updale (Scholastic)
Stealing Stacey by Lynne Reid Banks (Collins)
When Mum Threw Out the Telly by E F Smith (Orchard Books)
The Best Book with Facts in it
Brilliant Brits: Shakespeare written and illustrated by Richard Brassey (Orion)
Who is Emily Davison? by Claudia Fitzherbert (Short Books)
I Spy: Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwaite (Collins)
Journey into the Arctic by Bryan and Cherry Alexander (OUP)
The Ultimate Book Guide edited by Daniel Hahn (A and C Black)
The Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud
Atticus the Storyteller?s 100 Greek Myths by Lucy Coates, illustrated by Anthony Lewis (Orion)
Man on the Moon written and illustrated by Simon Bartram (Templar)
Quiet! written by Paul Bright, illustrated by Guy Parker Rees (Little Tiger Press)
The Smartest Giant in Town written by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler
The Woman Who Won Things written by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Katharine McEwen (Walker Books)
The Judging Panel
Elizabeth Attenborough - Formerly Publishing Director, Puffin Books, now Children?s - Book Consultant
Liz Barker - Current Blue Peter presenter
Lucy Lethbridge - Journalist, writer and previous winner of a Blue Peter - Book Award for Ada Lovelace (Short Books)
Richard Marson- Editor, Blue Peter
Nick Sharratt - Illustrator and previous winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year with Eat Your Peas! (Red Fox)
The Judging Process
The group of adult judges decide on a shortlist from which the Young Judges select their category winners and the overall Blue Peter Book of the Year.
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