The enormously popular and influential Blue Peter Book Awards have been recognising and celebrating the best authors, the most creative illustrators and the greatest reads for children since 2000. The Blue Peter Book Awards 2013 celebrated children's books published in the last year in two categories: the Best Story and the Best Book with Facts.

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Past winners of the Blue Peter Book of the Year

2012 The Considine Curse by Gareth P Jones (Bloomsbury)

2011 Dead Man's Cove by Lauren St John (Orion Children's Books)

2010 Frozen in Time by Ali Sparkes (Oxford University Press)

2009 Shadow Forest by Matt Haig (Corgi Children's)

2008 Prize didn't run
2007 The Outlaw Varjak Paw by S. F. Said, illustrated by Dave McKean (David Fickling Books)

2006 Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins)
2005 Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo (Collins)
2004 Man on the Moon by Simon Bartram (Templar)
2003 Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve (Scholastic)
2002 Feather Boy by Nicky Singer (Collins)
2001 The Wind Singer by William Nicholson (Egmont)
2000 A Pilgrim's Progress retold by Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrated by Jason Cockcroft (Hodder)

Publishers may enter up to three eligible fiction titles for the Best Story award per bona fide imprint, and three eligible non-fiction titles for the Best Book with Facts award per bona fide imprint. Books must be first published between 1 November 2011 and 31 October 2012 in the UK. Authors and illustrators must either be British nationals or residents at the time of entering. The deadline for submission was Monday 10 September 2012.

For full details of eligibility and how to enter, download the 2013 Terms and Conditions and Entry Form.

If you have any questions, please contact Laura Mell at Booktrust on laura.mell@booktrust.org.uk or 020 8516 2960