The 2010 Blue Peter Book Awards Shortlist is:
Best Book With Facts:
Usborne Lift-the-flap Picture Atlas by Alex Frith & Kate Leake
Tail-End Charlie by Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom
Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You by Mitchell Symons
Book I Couldn't Put Down:
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 by Harriet Goodwin
Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes
Most Fun Story with Pictures:
Peter the Penguin Pioneer by Daren King
Spells by Emily Gravett
Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things by Guy Bass & Pete Williamson
The panel of adult judges included the Editor of Blue Peter, a children's librarian and Matt Haig, who won Blue Peter Book of the Year 2009 for Shadow Forest. These books will now be judged by Blue Peter viewers. They will decide both the winners in each category, and the overall winner of Blue Peter Book of the Year 2010. The awards will be announced on a special Blue Peter in March 2010 to coincide with World Book Day and an extract from each of the nine shortlisted titles will be dramatised for the show.
