Booktrust Early Years Awards

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.

List of Prize Winners

*2007
** Baby Book Award: Jess Stockham, "Tucking In!" (Child's Play)
** Pre-School Award: Polly Dunbar, "Penguin" (Walker Books)
** Best Emerging Illustrator Award: Emily Gravett, for "Monkey and Me" (Macmillan)
*2006
** Baby Book Award: Mandy Stanley, "How Do You Feel?" (HarperCollins Children's)
** Pre-School Award: Sam Lloyd, "Mr Pusskins" (Orchard Books)
** Best New Illustrator Award: Catherine Rayner, for "Augustus and His Smile" (Little Tiger Press)
*2005
** Baby Book Award: Lara Jones, "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)
*2004
** Baby Book Award: David Ellwand & Mike Jolley, "I love you!" (Templar)
** Pre-School Award: Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler, "The Snail and the Whale" (Macmillan)
** Best New Illustrator Award: Polly Horner, for "Polly and the North Star" (Orion)
*2003
**Sam Lloyd, "Happy Dog, Sad Dog" (Little Tiger Press)
*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 Oxenbury, "Tickle, Tickle" (Walker Books)

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*2007
** Baby Book Award:
***David McKee, "Elmer’s First Counting Book" (Andersen Press)
***Justine Smith & Fiona Land, "" (Ladybird)
***Justine Smith & Fiona Land, "" (Ladybird)
***Jess Stockham, "Looking Good!" (Child’s Play)
***Jess Stockham, "Tucking In!" (Child's Play)
***Dr Miriam Stoppard, "Happy Baby" (Dorling Kindersley)
** Pre-School Award:
***Mara Bergman & Nick Maland, "Oliver Who Would Not Sleep" (Hodder Children’s Books)
***Emma Chichester Clark, "Eliza and the Moonchild" (Andersen Press)
***Cressida Cowell & Neal Layton, "That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown" (Orchard Books)
***Polly Dunbar, "Penguin" (Walker Books)
***Joel Stewart, "Dexter Bexley and his Big Blue Beastie" (Doubleday)
***Jeanne Willis & Tony Ross, "Grill Pan Eddy" (Andersen Press)
** Best Emerging Illustrator Award:
***Jason Chapman, for "" (Little Tiger Press)
***Emily Gravett, 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)
*2006
** Baby Book Award:
***Marie Birkinshaw & Kate Merritt, "Night, Night, Baby" (Ladybird)
***Kathy Henderson & Paul Howard, "Look at You!" (Walker Books)
***Annie Kubler, "Peek-a-Boo!" (Child’s Play)
***Luana Rinaldo, "" (Campbell Books)
***Mandy Stanley, "How Do You Feel?" (HarperCollins Children's)
***Fiona Watt & Catherine-Anne MacKinnon, " [Sleepy Baby] " (Usborne)
** Pre-School Award:
***Jonathan Allen, "I’m Not Cute!" (Boxer Books)
***Nick Butterworth, "Tiger" (HarperCollins Children’s)
***Emma Dodd, "What Pet to Get?" (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:
***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 Dixon (Red Fox)
***Catherine Rayner, for "Augustus and His Smile" (Little Tiger Press)
*2005
** Baby Book Award:
***John Butler, "Can You Cuddle Like a Koala?" (Little Orchard)
***DK Team, "Bathtime Peekaboo!" (Dorling Kindersley)
***Lara Jones, "Poppy Cat’s Farm" (Campbell Books)
***Tony Maddox, "Not So Loud, Oliver!" (Little Orchard)
***Joanne Partis, "Look at Me!" (Chrysalis Books)
***Nicola Smee, "No Bed Without Ted" (Bloomsbury)
** Pre-School Award:
***Jez Alborough, "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 Umansky & Chris Fisher, "A Chair for Baby Bear" (OUP)
** 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)

*2003
**Roger Priddy, "Baby Activity Centre" (Priddy Books)
**Sam Lloyd, "Happy Dog, Sad Dog" (Little Tiger Press)
**Fiona Watt & Rachel Wells, "That’s Not My Bear" (Usborne Publishing)
**DK Team, "" (Dorling Kindersley)
**Lara Jones, "Goodnight, Poppy Cat" (Campbell Books)
**Amanda Wood & Fiona Macmillan, "Baby Boo!" (Templar).

*2001
**Debi Gliori, "Where, Oh Where, is Baby Bear?" (Little Orchard)
**Annie Kubler, "If You're Happy and You Know It..." (Child's Play)
**Jo Lodge, "" (Baby Campbell)
**Sandra Lousada, "Baby Faces" (Baby Campbell)
**Mandy Ross & Kate Merritt, "Peekaboo Baby!" (Ladybird)
**Nicola Smee, "Sleepyhead" (Baby Campbell)

*1999
**Steve Bland, "Woof!" (Macmillan)
**Lucy Cousins, "Humpty Dumpty and Other Nursery Rhymes" (Macmillan)
**Debbie MacKinnon & Anthea Sieveking, "Find My Cake!" (Frances Lincoln)
**Jan Ormerod, "Peek-a-Boo!" (Dutton)
**Helen Oxenbury, "Tickle, Tickle" (Walker Books)
**Nick Sharratt, "A Bear with a Pear" (Macmillan)

External links

* [http://www.booktrust.org.uk/prizes/eya.php Booktrust Early Years Awards]
* [http://www.booktrust.org.uk/info/prizes.php?action=3&przid=269 Booktrust Early Years Awards at Booktrust]
* [http://www.booktrust.org.uk/info/prizes.php?action=3&przid=109 Sainsbury's Baby Book Award at Booktrust]
* [http://www.peters-books.co.uk/news0088.htm Booktrust Early Years Awards shortlists 2005]
* [http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-miscellaneous/4650088-1.html Sainsbury's Baby Book Award shortlist 2001]
* [http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/news/article292452.ece Sainsbury's Baby Book Award shortlist 1999]