Booktrust Early Years Awards
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The Booktrust Early Years Awards, formerly known as the Sainsbury’s Baby Book Award, are a series of literary prizes for children's picture books
awarded annually. The prize is administered by Booktrust, an independent charity which promotes books and reading; prior to 2004 it was sponsored by the supermarket chain Sainsbury's.
There are currently three categories: the Baby Book Award, the Pre-School Award, and the Best Emerging Illustrator Award. The winners of each category receive £2000, with the Emerging Illustrator also receiving a specially commissioned award. The publishers of the winning books are each given an award as well.
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awarded annually. The prize is administered by Booktrust, an independent charity which promotes books and reading; prior to 2004 it was sponsored by the supermarket chain Sainsbury's.
There are currently three categories: the Baby Book Award, the Pre-School Award, and the Best Emerging Illustrator Award. The winners of each category receive £2000, with the Emerging Illustrator also receiving a specially commissioned award. The publishers of the winning books are each given an award as well.
List of prize winners
- 2008
- Baby Book Award: Georgie Birkett, Is This My Nose? (Red Fox)
- Pre-School Award: Jeanne WillisJeanne WillisJeanne Willis is an author of several children's books, including The Monster Bed , the Dr. Xargle's Book of... series , and Shamanka...
& Gwen Millward, The Bog Baby (Puffin Books) - Best Emerging Illustrator Award: Tim Hopgood, for Here Comes Frankie! (Macmillan Children's Books)
- 2007
- Baby Book Award: Jess Stockham, Tucking In! (Child's Play)
- Pre-School Award: Polly DunbarPolly DunbarPolly Dunbar is an author-illustrator. Dunbar is known for her self-illustrated books Dog Blue, Flyaway Katie and Penguin. She is the daughter of children's book writer Joyce Dunbar, whom she worked with to publish the picture book Shoe Baby...
, PenguinPenguin (book)Penguin is a children's picture book by Polly Dunbar, published in 2007. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Silver Award, the Red House Children's Book Award for Younger Children and a Booktrust Early Years Award. It was also shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal, and was selected by The...
(Walker Books) - Best Emerging Illustrator Award: Emily GravettEmily GravettEmily Gravett is an award-winning children's author and illustrator who currently lives in Brighton, England with her partner Mik, a plumber, and daughter who is still at school.-Bibliography:*Wolves *Orange Pear Apple Bear...
, for Monkey and Me (Macmillan)
- 2006
- Baby Book Award: Mandy Stanley, How Do You Feel? (HarperCollins Children's)
- Pre-School Award: Sam LloydSam LloydSam Lloyd may refer to:*Samuel T. Lloyd III, dean of Washington National Cathedral*Sam Lloyd, recurring guest character on several television shows including Scrubs and Desperate Housewives-See also:...
, Mr Pusskins (Orchard Books) - Best New Illustrator Award: Catherine Rayner, for Augustus and His Smile (Little Tiger Press)
- 2005
- Baby Book Award: Lara JonesLara JonesLara Jones was a British artist, children's author and illustrator. She is best remembered for her Poppy Cat series of books, written for the very young, which have been published in 20 languages and sold nearly two million copies.-Early life:Lara Kate Jones, was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch,...
, Poppy Cat’s Farm (Campbell Books) - Pre-School Award: Jack Tickle, The Very Dizzy Dinosaur (Little Tiger Press)
- Best New Illustrator Award: Kanako Usui, for The Fantastic Mr Wani (Little Tiger Press)
- Baby Book Award: Lara Jones
- 2004
- Baby Book Award: David EllwandDavid EllwandDavid Ellwand is an English photographer, illustrator, and author. He is a trained photographer, who has exhibited his landscape and abstract photographs throughout western Europe and the United States....
& Mike Jolley, I Love You! (Templar) - Pre-School Award: Julia DonaldsonJulia DonaldsonJulia Catherine Donaldson MBE is an English writer and playwright, best known as author of The Gruffalo and other children's books, many illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Of her 157 published works, 56 are widely available in bookshops...
& Axel SchefflerAxel SchefflerAxel Scheffler is a book illustrator best known for his cartoon-like pictures for children's books, particularly The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child written by Julia Donaldson.-Life and career:...
, The Snail and the Whale (Macmillan) - Best New Illustrator Award: Polly Horner, for Polly and the North Star (Orion)
- Baby Book Award: David Ellwand
- 2003
- Sam LloydSam LloydSam Lloyd may refer to:*Samuel T. Lloyd III, dean of Washington National Cathedral*Sam Lloyd, recurring guest character on several television shows including Scrubs and Desperate Housewives-See also:...
, Happy Dog, Sad Dog (Little Tiger Press)
- Sam Lloyd
- 2002
- Annie Kubler, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (Child's Play)
- 2001
- Sandra Lousada, Baby Faces (Baby Campbell)
- 2000
- Alex Ayliffe, Boo Barney (Orchard Books)
- 1999
- Helen OxenburyHelen OxenburyHelen Gillian Oxenbury is an award-winning illustrator of children's picture books. She lives with her husband, the illustrator John Burningham, in north London.- Background :...
, Tickle, Tickle (Walker Books)
- Helen Oxenbury
Shortlists
- 2008
- Baby Book Award:
- Angela Brooksbank, Baby's Very First Book: Day (Campbell Books)
- Dawn Sirett & Rachael Parfitt, Baby Loves Peekaboo! (Dorling Kindersley)
- Tim Warnes & Jane Chapman, Daddy Hug (HarperCollins Children's Books)
- Justine Smith & Fiona Land, Baby Touch: Playtime Book and DVD (Ladybird)
- Georgie Birkett, Is This My Nose? (Red Fox)
- Emily Hawkins & Emma DoddEmma DoddEmma Dodd is an English illustrator and author. She is best known for her award-winning children's books published by Orchard Books, Templar Publishing, Penguin Books, Macmillan Publishers , Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins and Scholastic Corporation .- Biography :Emma Dodd was born in 1969 in...
, Amazing Baby: Rainbow Fun! (Templar)
- Pre-School Award:
- David BedfordDavid BedfordDavid Vickerman Bedford , was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music....
& Russell Julian, It's a George Thing! (Egmont Books) - Joanna Harrison, Grizzly Dad (David Fickling Books)
- Andy Cutbill & Russell AytoRussell AytoRichard Ayto is an award-winning children's book illustrator and author. He was born in Chichester in 1960 and grew up in Kidlington, Oxfordshire. After school he worked in the Histopathology Department of the John Radcliffe Hospital before studying at Oxford Polytechnic and Exeter College, Exeter...
, The Cow That Laid an Egg (HarperCollins Children's Books) - Chris RiddellChris RiddellChris Riddell is a British illustrator and occasional writer of children's literature, and a political cartoonist for The Observer. He has won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize seven times....
, Wendel's Workshop (Macmillan Children's Books) - Jeanne WillisJeanne WillisJeanne Willis is an author of several children's books, including The Monster Bed , the Dr. Xargle's Book of... series , and Shamanka...
& Gwen Millward, The Bog Baby (Puffin Books) - Jeanne WillisJeanne WillisJeanne Willis is an author of several children's books, including The Monster Bed , the Dr. Xargle's Book of... series , and Shamanka...
& Garry Parsons, There's An Ouch in My Pouch! (Puffin Books)
- David Bedford
- Best Emerging Illustrator Award:
- Victoria Ball, for That Yucky Love Thing (Gullane Children's Books)
- Tim Hopgood, for Here Comes Frankie! (Macmillan Children's Books)
- Alex T. Smith, for Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero (Scholastic Children's Books)
- Joe BergerJoe Berger (illustrator)Joe Berger is an illustrator and cartoonist from Bristol.He has been making films, illustrating and cartooning since 1991. In 1992 he drew his own British small press comics Shooba heavily influenced by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb...
, for Bridget Fidget (Puffin Books) - Gwen Millward, for The Bog Baby (Puffin Books)
- Vicky White, for Ape (Walker Books)
- Baby Book Award:
- 2007
- Baby Book Award:
- David McKeeDavid McKeeDavid McKee is a British author and illustrator, chiefly of children's books and animations. He has used the pseudonym Violet Easton. He is frequently referenced as David McKee.-Biography:...
, Elmer’s First Counting Book (Andersen Press) - Justine Smith & Fiona Land, Baby Touch: Noisy Book (Ladybird)
- Justine Smith & Fiona Land, Baby Touch: Peekaboo Book (Ladybird)
- Jess Stockham, Looking Good! (Child’s Play)
- Jess Stockham, Tucking In! (Child's Play)
- Dr Miriam StoppardMiriam StoppardMiriam Stoppard OBE , is a British doctor, author, television presenter and agony aunt.- Early life and medical career :...
, Happy BabyHappy BabyHappy Baby, is a 2004 novel by Stephen Elliott.-Plot:Theo is addicted to sadomasochism. He insists on being hurt - whether by one he loves or by a professional dominatrix. Theo is a victim of the child welfare system. Told in reverse chronological order, 'Happy Baby' begins when 36-year-old Theo...
(Dorling Kindersley)
- David McKee
- Pre-School Award:
- Mara BergmanMara BergmanMara Bergman was born in the Bronx, New York, on leap year day. She grew up in Wantagh, Long Island, and attended Wantagh High School and the University of the State of New York at Oneonta. After moving to England with her husband, Martin Camus-Smith, in 1983 she worked for the children’s...
& Nick Maland, Oliver Who Would Not Sleep (Hodder Children’s Books) - Emma Chichester Clark, Eliza and the Moonchild (Andersen Press)
- Cressida CowellCressida CowellCressida Cowell is an English children's author who wrote the Hiccup series of books.- Personal life :Cowell lives in London with her husband Simon, a former director and interim CEO of the International Save the Children Alliance; daughters Maisie and Clementine; and son Alexander...
& Neal Layton, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily BrownThat Rabbit Belongs to Emily BrownThat Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown is a children's picture book written by Cressida Cowell and illustrated by Neal Layton, published in 2006. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Booktrust Early Years Awards and longlisted for the Kate Greenaway...
(Orchard Books) - Polly DunbarPolly DunbarPolly Dunbar is an author-illustrator. Dunbar is known for her self-illustrated books Dog Blue, Flyaway Katie and Penguin. She is the daughter of children's book writer Joyce Dunbar, whom she worked with to publish the picture book Shoe Baby...
, PenguinPenguinPenguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have become flippers...
(Walker Books) - Joel Stewart, Dexter Bexley and his Big Blue Beastie (Doubleday)
- Jeanne WillisJeanne WillisJeanne Willis is an author of several children's books, including The Monster Bed , the Dr. Xargle's Book of... series , and Shamanka...
& Tony RossTony RossTony Ross is a British illustrator and author for children.He is most noted for his work with Francesca Simon on the Horrid Henry books, and has also illustrated the Harry The Poisonous Centipede and Dr. Xargle series of books...
, Grill Pan Eddy (Andersen Press)
- Mara Bergman
- Best Emerging Illustrator Award:
- Jason Chapman, for Ted, Bo and Diz: The First Adventure (Little Tiger Press)
- Emily GravettEmily GravettEmily Gravett is an award-winning children's author and illustrator who currently lives in Brighton, England with her partner Mik, a plumber, and daughter who is still at school.-Bibliography:*Wolves *Orange Pear Apple Bear...
, for Monkey and Me (Macmillan) - Viviane Schwarz, for Timothy and the Strong Pyjamas (Alison Green Books)
- Anna Wadham, for The Ant and the Big Bad Bully Goat - written by Andrew Fusek Peters (Child’s Play)
- Baby Book Award:
- 2006
- Baby Book Award:
- Marie Birkinshaw & Kate Merritt, Night, Night, Baby (Ladybird)
- Kathy Henderson & Paul HowardPaul Howard (illustrator)Paul Howard is a children's illustrator. He provided the illustrations for The Bravest Ever Bear, written by Allan Ahlberg, which won a Blue Peter Book Award...
, Look at You! (Walker Books) - Annie Kubler, Peek-a-Boo! (Child’s Play)
- Luana Rinaldo, Clackety-Clacks: Bee (Campbell Books)
- Mandy Stanley, How Do You Feel? (HarperCollins Children's)
- Fiona Watt & Catherine-Anne MacKinnon, Sleepy Baby (Usborne)
- Pre-School Award:
- Jonathan AllenJonathan AllenJonathan Allen is a visual artist, writer, and magician based in London. His alter-ego "Tommy Angel", is a fictitious evangelist and magician satirising the genre of Gospel Magic, who Allen portrays in a variety of media including performance, photography, video, and writing.-Life and work:He...
, I’m Not Cute! (Boxer Books) - Nick ButterworthNick ButterworthNick Butterworth is a British children's author and illustrator who has sold more than 12 million books.- Biography :After his education at the Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park, he left home to work as an apprentice as a typographical designer with the National Children's Home before working at...
, TigerTigerThe tiger is the largest cat species, reaching a total body length of up to and weighing up to . Their most recognizable feature is a pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with lighter underparts...
(HarperCollins Children’s) - Emma DoddEmma DoddEmma Dodd is an English illustrator and author. She is best known for her award-winning children's books published by Orchard Books, Templar Publishing, Penguin Books, Macmillan Publishers , Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins and Scholastic Corporation .- Biography :Emma Dodd was born in 1969 in...
, What Pet to Get? (Templar Publishing) - Emily GravettEmily GravettEmily Gravett is an award-winning children's author and illustrator who currently lives in Brighton, England with her partner Mik, a plumber, and daughter who is still at school.-Bibliography:*Wolves *Orange Pear Apple Bear...
, Orange Pear Apple BearOrange Pear Apple BearOrange Pear Apple Bear is a children's book written by award winning author and illustrator Emily Gravett. Throughout the book only the four words "orange, pear, apple" and "bear" are used but are placed in a different order every time....
(Macmillan Children’s) - Oliver JeffersOliver JeffersOliver Jeffers is an artist, illustrator and writer from Belfast Northern Ireland and now lives and works in Brooklyn. He graduated from the University of Ulster in 2001.-Life and work:...
, Lost and FoundLost and Found (book)Lost and Found is a children's picture book by Oliver Jeffers, published in 2005. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Award and was the Blue Peter Book of the Year....
(HarperCollins Children’s) - Sam LloydSam LloydSam Lloyd may refer to:*Samuel T. Lloyd III, dean of Washington National Cathedral*Sam Lloyd, recurring guest character on several television shows including Scrubs and Desperate Housewives-See also:...
, Mr Pusskins (Orchard Books)
- Jonathan Allen
- Best Emerging Illustrator Award:
- Sebastien Braun, for I Love My Mummy (Boxer Books)
- Petra Brown, for If Big Can... I Can - written by Beth Shoshan (Meadowside)
- Natalie Chivers, for Dad’s Bug Bear - written by Peter DixonPeter DixonPeter John Dixon is a former England international rugby union player. He toured New Zealand in 1971 with the British and Irish Lions and at the time played club rugby for Harlequins. He played for Oxford University RFC in four consecutive Varsity Matches from 1967 to 1970...
(Red Fox) - Catherine Rayner, for Augustus and His Smile (Little Tiger Press)
- Baby Book Award:
- 2005
- Baby Book Award:
- John Butler, Can You Cuddle Like a Koala? (Little Orchard)
- DK TeamDorling KindersleyDorling Kindersley is an international publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 51 languages. It is currently part of the Penguin Group....
, Bathtime Peekaboo! (Dorling Kindersley) - Lara JonesLara JonesLara Jones was a British artist, children's author and illustrator. She is best remembered for her Poppy Cat series of books, written for the very young, which have been published in 20 languages and sold nearly two million copies.-Early life:Lara Kate Jones, was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch,...
, Poppy Cat’s Farm (Campbell Books) - Tony MaddoxTony MaddoxTony Maddox is an artist and a writer of children's books.He was born in Birmingham, and worked there as a commercial artist in an advertising agency. His first book, Spike, the Sparrow who Couldn't Sing, was published in 1987...
, Not So Loud, Oliver! (Little Orchard) - Joanne Partis, Look at Me! (Chrysalis Books)
- Nicola Smee, No Bed Without Ted (Bloomsbury)
- Pre-School Award:
- Jez AlboroughJez AlboroughJez Alborough is a British author and illustrator of children's books that have been translated into 15 other languages and have received many awards....
, Duck's Key Where Can it be? (HarperCollins Children's) - Caroline Jayne Church, Pond Goose (OUP)
- Atsuko Morozumi, My Friend Gorilla (Mathew Price Books)
- Jan Ormerod & Lindsey Gardiner, Doing the Animal Bop (OUP)
- Jack Tickle, The Very Dizzy Dinosaur (Little Tiger Press)
- Kaye UmanskyKaye UmanskyKaye Umansky is an English children's author and poet. She has written over 130 books for children and her work ranges from picture books to novels. She is best known for the Pongwiffy Series.-Early life:...
& Chris FisherChris FisherChris Fisher , is an American director, writer, and producer.-Career:Fisher grew up in Newport Beach and studied philosophy and law at the University of Southern California, going on to work as a corporate lawyer in London before deciding to work in the entertainment industry...
, A Chair for Baby Bear (OUP)
- Jez Alborough
- Best New Illustrator Award:
- Heather Allen, for Little Green Monsters - written by Alec Sillifant (Meadowside)
- Uwe Mayer, for Eric the Liontamer - written by Rachel Elliot (Meadowside)
- Rob Scotton, for Russell the Sheep (HarperCollins Children's)
- Kanako Usui, for The Fantastic Mr Wani (Little Tiger Press)
- Baby Book Award:
- 2003
- Roger Priddy, Baby Activity Centre (Priddy Books)
- Sam LloydSam LloydSam Lloyd may refer to:*Samuel T. Lloyd III, dean of Washington National Cathedral*Sam Lloyd, recurring guest character on several television shows including Scrubs and Desperate Housewives-See also:...
, Happy Dog, Sad Dog (Little Tiger Press) - Fiona Watt & Rachel Wells, That’s Not My Bear (Usborne Publishing)
- DK TeamDorling KindersleyDorling Kindersley is an international publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 51 languages. It is currently part of the Penguin Group....
, Baby Fun: Five in the Bed (Dorling Kindersley) - Lara JonesLara JonesLara Jones was a British artist, children's author and illustrator. She is best remembered for her Poppy Cat series of books, written for the very young, which have been published in 20 languages and sold nearly two million copies.-Early life:Lara Kate Jones, was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch,...
, Goodnight, Poppy Cat (Campbell Books) - Amanda Wood & Fiona Macmillan, Baby Boo! (Templar).
- 2001
- Debi GlioriDebi Gliori-Life and career:She grew up as an only child in Glasgow, and when young began drawing and writing stories. She started writing children's books in 1976, and attended art school in Edinburgh from 1979 to 1984...
, Where, Oh Where, is Baby Bear? (Little Orchard) - Annie Kubler, If You're Happy and You Know It... (Child's Play)
- Jo Lodge, Baby's Very First Book: Farm (Baby Campbell)
- Sandra Lousada, Baby Faces (Baby Campbell)
- Mandy Ross & Kate Merritt, Peekaboo Baby! (Ladybird)
- Nicola Smee, Sleepyhead (Baby Campbell)
- Debi Gliori
- 1999
- Steve Bland, Woof!Woof!Woof! is a Children's ITV television series produced by Central Independent Television about the adventures of a boy who turns into a dog. It was based on the book by Allan Ahlberg. It was directed by David Cobham. It was written by Richard Fegen and Andrew Norriss.-History:The show was first...
(Macmillan) - Lucy CousinsLucy CousinsLucy Cousins , BA Honours in Graphic Design from The Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Brighton Polytechnic, postgraduate degree from Royal College of Art, is an author-illustrator of children's books...
, Humpty Dumpty and Other Nursery Rhymes (Macmillan) - Debbie MacKinnon & Anthea Sieveking, Find My Cake! (Frances Lincoln)
- Jan Ormerod, Peek-a-Boo! (Dutton)
- Helen OxenburyHelen OxenburyHelen Gillian Oxenbury is an award-winning illustrator of children's picture books. She lives with her husband, the illustrator John Burningham, in north London.- Background :...
, Tickle, Tickle (Walker Books) - Nick SharrattNick SharrattNick Sharratt is a British illustrator and author of children's books, and was chosen to be the Official Illustrator for World Book Day 2006...
, A Bear with a Pear (Macmillan)
- Steve Bland, Woof!