Booktrust Early Years Award

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The Booktrust Early Years Awards, originally the Sainsbury’s Baby Book Award(s), was a set of annual literary prizes for children's picture books. It was administered by Booktrust, an independent charity that promotes books and reading; from 1999 to 2004 it was sponsored by the supermarket chain Sainsbury's. The last Awards year was 2010.^[1]

As of 2005 there were three categories: the Baby Book Award, the Pre-School Award, and the Best Emerging Illustrator Award. The winners in each category received £2000 with the Emerging Illustrator also receiving a specially commissioned award. The publishers of the winning books were given awards too.

List of prize winners[]

• 2010
  • Baby Book Award: Giles Andreae, (Orchard Books)
  • Pre-School Award: Chris Wormell, (Red Fox)
  • Best Emerging Illustrator Award: , for (Templar)
• 2009
  • Baby Book Award: Ed Vere, Chick (Puffin)
  • Pre-School Award: Mara Bergman & , (Hodder Children's Books)
  • Best Emerging Illustrator Award: for (Jonathan Cape)
• 2008
  • Baby Book Award: , (Red Fox)
  • Pre-School Award: Jeanne Willis & , (Puffin Books)
  • Best Emerging Illustrator Award: , for (Macmillan Children's Books)
• 2007
  • Baby Book Award: , (Child's Play)
  • Pre-School Award: Polly Dunbar, Penguin (Walker Books)
  • Best Emerging Illustrator Award: Emily Gravett, for (Macmillan)
• 2006
  • Baby Book Award: , How Do You Feel? (HarperCollins Children's)
  • Pre-School Award: Sam Lloyd, Mr. Pusskins (Orchard Books)
  • Best New Illustrator Award: Catherine Rayner, for (Little Tiger Press)
• 2005
  • Baby Book Award: Lara Jones, (Campbell Books)
  • Pre-School Award: , (Little Tiger Press)
  • Best New Illustrator Award: , for (Little Tiger Press)
• 2004
  • Baby Book Award: David Ellwand & , (Templar)
  • Pre-School Award: Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler, The Snail and the Whale (Macmillan)
  • Best New Illustrator Award: , for (Orion)
• 2003
  • Sam Lloyd, (Little Tiger Press)
• 2002
  • , (Child's Play)
• 2001
  • , (Baby Campbell)
• 2000
  • , (Orchard Books)
• 1999
  • Helen Oxenbury, (Walker Books)

Shortlists[]

• 2008
  • Baby Book Award:
    • , (Campbell Books)
    • & , (Dorling Kindersley)
    • & Jane Chapman, (HarperCollins Children's Books)
    • & , (Ladybird)
    • , (Red Fox)
    • & Emma Dodd, (Templar)
  • Pre-School Award:
    • David Bedford & , (Egmont Books)
    • , (David Fickling Books)
    • & Russell Ayto, (HarperCollins Children's Books)
    • Chris Riddell, (Macmillan Children's Books)
    • Jeanne Willis & , (Puffin Books)
    • Jeanne Willis & , (Puffin Books)
  • Best Emerging Illustrator Award:
    • , for (Gullane Children's Books)
    • , for (Macmillan Children's Books)
    • Alex T. Smith, for (Scholastic Children's Books)
    • Joe Berger, for (Puffin Books)
    • , for (Puffin Books)
    • , for (Walker Books)
• 2007
  • Baby Book Award:
    • David McKee, (Andersen Press)
    • & , (Ladybird)
    • & , (Ladybird)
    • , (Child’s Play)
    • , (Child's Play)
    • Dr Miriam Stoppard, Happy Baby (Dorling Kindersley)
  • Pre-School Award:
    • Mara Bergman & , (Hodder Children’s Books)
    • Emma Chichester Clark, (Andersen Press)
    • Cressida Cowell & Neal Layton, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown (Orchard Books)
    • Polly Dunbar, Penguin (Walker Books)
    • , (Doubleday)
    • Jeanne Willis & Tony Ross, (Andersen Press)
  • Best Emerging Illustrator Award:
    • , for (Little Tiger Press)
    • Emily Gravett, for (Macmillan)
    • , for (Alison Green Books)
    • , for - written by (Child’s Play)
• 2006
  • Baby Book Award:
    • & , (Ladybird)
    • & Paul Howard, (Walker Books)
    • , Peek-a-Boo! (Child’s Play)
    • , (Campbell Books)
    • , How Do You Feel? (HarperCollins Children's)
    • Fiona Watt & , (Usborne)
  • Pre-School Award:
    • Jonathan Allen, (Boxer Books)
    • Nick Butterworth, Tiger (HarperCollins Children’s)
    • Emma Dodd, (Templar Publishing)
    • Emily Gravett, Orange Pear Apple Bear (Macmillan Children’s)
    • Oliver Jeffers, Lost and Found (HarperCollins Children’s)
    • Sam Lloyd, Mr. Pusskins (Orchard Books)
  • Best Emerging Illustrator Award:
    • , for (Boxer Books)
    • , for - written by (Meadowside)
    • , for - written by Peter Dixon (Red Fox)
    • Catherine Rayner, for (Little Tiger Press)
• 2005
  • Baby Book Award:
    • , (Little Orchard)
    • DK Team, (Dorling Kindersley)
    • Lara Jones, (Campbell Books)
    • Tony Maddox, (Little Orchard)
    • , (Chrysalis Books)
    • , (Bloomsbury)
  • Pre-School Award:
    • Jez Alborough, (HarperCollins Children's)
    • , (OUP)
    • , (Mathew Price Books)
    • Jan Ormerod & , (OUP)
    • , (Little Tiger Press)
    • Kaye Umansky & Chris Fisher, (OUP)
  • Best New Illustrator Award:
    • Heather Allen, for - written by (Meadowside)
    • , for - written by (Meadowside)
    • , for Russell the Sheep (HarperCollins Children's)
    • , for (Little Tiger Press)
• 2003
  • Roger Priddy, (Priddy Books)
  • Sam Lloyd, (Little Tiger Press)
  • Fiona Watt & , (Usborne Publishing)
  • DK Team, (Dorling Kindersley)
  • Lara Jones, (Campbell Books)
  • & , (Templar).
• 2001
  • Debi Gliori, (Little Orchard)
  • , (Child's Play)
  • , (Baby Campbell)
  • , (Baby Campbell)
  • & , (Ladybird)
  • , (Baby Campbell)
• 1999
  • , Woof! (Macmillan)
  • Lucy Cousins, (Macmillan)
  • & , (Frances Lincoln)
  • Jan Ormerod, Peek-a-Boo! (Dutton)
  • Helen Oxenbury, (Walker Books)
  • Nick Sharratt, (Macmillan)

See also[]

References[]

External links[]

• Booktrust Early Years Awards
• Booktrust Early Years Awards at Booktrust^{[dead link]}
• Sainsbury's Baby Book Award at Booktrust^{[dead link]}
• Booktrust Early Years Awards shortlists 2005
• Sainsbury's Baby Book Award shortlist 2001
• Sainsbury's Baby Book Award shortlist 1999^{[dead link]}