Booktrust Early Years Award

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.

As of 2008 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, I Love My Mummy (Orchard Books)
  • Pre-School Award: Chris Wormell, One Smart Fish (Red Fox)
  • Best Emerging Illustrator Award: Levi Pinfold, for The Django (Templar)
• 2009
  • Baby Book Award: Ed Vere, Chick (Puffin)
  • Pre-School Award: Mara Bergman & Nick Maland, Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide (Hodder Children's Books)
  • Best Emerging Illustrator Award: Katie Cleminson for Box of Tricks (Jonathan Cape)
• 2008
  • Baby Book Award: Georgie Birkett, Is This My Nose? (Red Fox)
  • Pre-School Award: Jeanne Willis & 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 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)

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 Dodd, Amazing Baby: Rainbow Fun! (Templar)
  • Pre-School Award:
    • David Bedford & Russell Julian, It's a George Thing! (Egmont Books)
    • Joanna Harrison, Grizzly Dad (David Fickling Books)
    • Andy Cutbill & Russell Ayto, The Cow That Laid an Egg (HarperCollins Children's Books)
    • Chris Riddell, Wendel's Workshop (Macmillan Children's Books)
    • Jeanne Willis & Gwen Millward, The Bog Baby (Puffin Books)
    • Jeanne Willis & Garry Parsons, There's An Ouch in My Pouch! (Puffin Books)
  • 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 Berger, for Bridget Fidget (Puffin Books)
    • Gwen Millward, for The Bog Baby (Puffin Books)
    • Vicky White, for Ape (Walker Books)
• 2007
  • Baby Book Award:
    • David McKee, 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 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 Ted, Bo and Diz: The First Adventure (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, 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 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, Baby Fun: Five in the Bed (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'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)

• 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

• Booktrust Early Years Awards
• Booktrust Early Years Awards at Booktrust
• Sainsbury's Baby Book Award at Booktrust
• Booktrust Early Years Awards shortlists 2005
• Sainsbury's Baby Book Award shortlist 2001
• Sainsbury's Baby Book Award shortlist 1999