LibGuides: ESC- Award Winning Books : Blue Peter Book Award

Blue Peter Book Awards
The enormously popular and influential Blue Peter Book Awards havebeenrecognising and celebrating the best authors, the most creative illustrators and the greatest reads for children since 2000.
Previous Blue Peter Book Award winners include Michael Morpurgo, Katherine Rundell, Oliver Jeffers and Liz Pichon - you can find out more about the 2017 awards below and learn about previous years by visiting the Blue Peter Book Awards archive.

The Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie
Call Number: FANTASY EN MAC
ISBN: 9781782501251
Publication Date: 2015
2016 Best Story Winner
The Spy who loved school dinners by Pamela Butchart
Call Number: HUMOR EN BUT
ISBN: 9780857632579
Publication Date: 2014
2015 Winner
Rooftoppers by Rundell, Katherine
Call Number: ADVENTURE EN RUN
ISBN: 9780571280599
Publication Date: 2013
2014 Winner
Wed wabbit by Evans, Lissa
Call Number: HUMOR EN EVA
ISBN: 9781910989432
Publication Date: 2017
2018 Winner
Podkin One-Ear by Kieran Larwood; David Wyatt (Illustrator)
Call Number: FANTASY EN LAR
ISBN: 9780571328260
Publication Date: 2017-03-08
2017 Winner of the Best Story
The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell
ISBN: 9781444936704
Publication Date: 2017-09-19
2018 Winner of the Best Story

The epic book of epicness : the world's most epic facts by Frost, Adam
Call Number: EN 032.02 FRO
ISBN: 9781408862346
Publication Date: 2015
2016 Winner

If all the dead people on Earth came back to life as zombies, how many zombies would there be? Which bug can survive being squished by a sledgehammer? Where can you see a red waterfall? Pick up this book to find out the answers to these weird, wacky and epic facts, and many more.
The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff by Andy Seed
Call Number: EN 032.02 SEE
ISBN: 9781408850794
Publication Date: 2014
2015 Winner

This laugh-out-loud book is bursting with lists, facts, jokes and funny true stories all about silly people, silly animals, silly inventions, silly names and much more. Discover the man who ate a bike, a girl really called Lorna Mower and a sofa that can do 87mph.
Tony Robinson's weird world of wonders: World War II by Tony Robinson
Call Number: EN 940.53 ROB
ISBN: 9781447227687
Publication Date: 2013
2014 Winner

Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about World War II! It's history, but not as we know it!

Shortlist

Best Story
Best Book with Facts

Time Travelling with a Hamster by Ross Welford
Call Number: FANTASY EN WEL
ISBN: 9780008156312
2017 Shortlist
The Astounding Broccoli Boy by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Call Number: HUMOR EN BOY
ISBN: 9780330440875
Publication Date: 2015
2016 Shortlist
The Boy Who Sailed The Ocean In an Armchair by Lara Williamson
Call Number: REALISTIC EN WIL
ISBN: 9781409576327
Publication Date: 2015
2016 Shortlist
Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death by Chris Riddell
Call Number: CRIME EN RID
ISBN: 9780230759824
Publication Date: 2016-12-01
2015 Shortlist
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell; Terry Fan (Illustrator)
Call Number: ADVENTURE EN RUN
ISBN: 9780571280599
A beautiful novel about a group of urchins living on the rooftops of Victorian Paris, which is a tribute to believing in the impossible.

Destination: Space by Christoph Englert; Tom Clohosy Cole (Illustrator)
Call Number: EN 523.2 ENG
ISBN: 9781847808240
Publication Date: 2016-09-01
2017 Shortlist
The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words by Andy Seed
Call Number: EN 422 SEE
ISBN: 9781408853382
Publication Date: 2015
2016 Shortlist
Animalium by Broom, Jenny, Scott, Katie
Call Number: EN 590 BRO
ISBN: 9781783700608
Publication Date: 2014
2015 Shortlist