Winners of Booktrust’s Early Years Awards announced

Wendy Cooling, chair of judges, presented the winners for each category with a cheque for £2,000 and a customised trophy.

The best emerging illustrator was presented with a specially commissioned piece of original artwork donated by the children’s illustrator and judge Annie Kubler. At the end of the ceremony, the actor, and 2008 judge, Andrew Clover treated the audience to a reading of the winning book The Bog Baby.

The winners are: 

Baby Book Award:
Is This My Nose?

by Georgie Birkett

(Red Fox)

Pre-School Award:
The Bog Baby

by Jeanne Willis,

illustrated by Gwen Millward

(Puffin Books)

Best Emerging Illustrator:
Tim Hopgood for

Here Comes Frankie!

(Macmillan Children’s Books)

The Booktrust Early Years Awards aim to:

• celebrate, publicise and reward the exciting range of books being published today for babies, toddlers and pre-school children;
• promote and make these books accessible to as wide an audience as possible.

These books are all available from Amazon. To order a copy, click the link below:

Is This My Nose?

The Bog Baby

Here Comes Frankie!