Eve White: Literary Agent

The winners of the 2009 Blue Peter Book Awards, for which Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear is shortlisted, will be announced on Blue Peter on BBC 1 at 4.35pm Wednesday 4th March, a day earlier than previously planned. The winners of the three categories... 

...(Best Book with Fact, Book I Couldn’t Put Down, Most Fun Story with Pictures) and the overall Blue Peter Book of the Year will be announced on the Blue Peter show.

The shortlist of nine books was chosen by a panel of adult judges comprising author Anthony McGowan, school librarian Karen Bhatti and Blue Peter Editor Tim Levell.

The final nine books were then judged by a selection of young Blue Peter viewers, who have decided the winners in each category and the overall winner.

The shortlist is: 

Best Book With Facts:

Archaeology Detectives - by Simon Adams (Oxford University Press)

100 Most Dangerous Things on the Planet - by Anna Claybourne (A&C Black)

Horrible Geography Handbooks: Planet in Peril - by Anita Ganeri, illustrated by Mike Phillips (Scholastic)



Book I Couldn't Put Down:

Abela - by Berlie Doherty (Andersen Press)

Shadow Forest - by Matt Haig (Corgi)

Foul Play - by Tom Palmer (Puffin)


Most Fun Story with Pictures:

Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear - by Andy Stanton, illustrated by David Tazzyman (Egmont)

Fleabag - by Helen Stephens (Alison Green Books)

Lost! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog - by Jeremy Strong, illustrated by Rowan Clifford (Puffin Books)