Booktrust Early Years Award


The Booktrust Early Years Awards, originally the Sainsbury’s Baby Book Award, 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. The Booktrust Early Years Awards was sponsored by the supermarket chain Sainsbury's with its last award give in 2010.
As of 2005 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.

Honorees

YearCategoryAuthor/IllustratorTitlePublisherResult
1999N/ATickle, TickleWalker BooksWinner
1999N/AWoof!Macmillan Children's BooksShortlist
1999N/AHumpty Dumpty and Other Nursery RhymesMacmillan Children's BooksShortlist
1999N/A and Anthea SievekingFind My Cake!Frances LincolnShortlist
1999N/APeek-a-Boo!Dutton Children's BooksShortlist
1999N/A'Macmillan Children's BooksShortlist
2000N/ABoo BarneyOrchard BooksWinner
2001N/ABaby FacesBaby CampbellWinner
2001N/AWhere, Oh Where, is Baby Bear?Little OrchardShortlist
2001N/AIf You're Happy and You Know It...Child's PlayShortlist
2001N/ABaby's Very First Book: FarmBaby CampbellShortlist
2001N/A and Kate MerrittPeekaboo Baby!LadybirdShortlist
2001N/ASleepyheadBaby CampbellShortlist
2002N/AHead, Shoulders, Knees and ToesChild's PlayWinner
2003N/AHappy Dog, Sad DogLittle Tiger PressWinner
2003N/AGoodnight, Poppy CatCampbell BooksShortlist
2003N/ABaby Activity CentrePriddy BooksShortlist
2003N/ABaby Fun: Five in the BedDorling KindersleyShortlist
2003N/A and Rachel WellsThat's Not My BearUsborne PublishingShortlist
2003N/A and Fiona MacmillanBaby Boo!TemplarShortlist
2004Baby Book and Mike JolleyI Love You!TemplarWinner
2004New IllustratorPolly and the North StarOrionWinner
2004Pre-School, illus. by Axel SchefflerMacmillan Children's BooksWinner
2005Baby BookPoppy Cat's FarmCampbell BooksWinner
2005Baby BookCan You Cuddle Like a Koala?Little OrchardShortlist
2005Baby BookNot So Loud, Oliver!Little OrchardShortlist
2005Baby BookLook at Me!Chrysalis BooksShortlist
2005Baby BookNo Bed Without TedBloomsburyShortlist
2005Baby BookBathtime Peekaboo!Dorling KindersleyShortlist
2005New Illustrator'Little Tiger PressWinner
2005New Illustrator, written by Alec SillifantLittle Green MonstersMeadowsideShortlist
2005New Illustrator, written by Rachel ElliotEric the LiontamerMeadowsideShortlist
2005New IllustratorRussell the SheepHarperCollins Children'sShortlist
2005Pre-SchoolThe Very Dizzy DinosaurLittle Tiger PressWinner
2005Pre-SchoolDuck's Key Where Can it be?HarperCollins Children'sShortlist
2005Pre-SchoolPond GooseOxford University PressShortlist
2005Pre-SchoolMy Friend GorillaMathew Price BooksShortlist
2005Pre-School and Lindsey GardinerDoing the Animal BopOxford University PressShortlist
2005Pre-School and Chris Fisher'Oxford University PressShortlist
2006Baby BookHow Do You Feel?HarperCollins Children'sWinner
2006Baby Book and Kate MerrittNight, Night, BabyLadybirdShortlist
2006Baby Book and Paul HowardLook at You!Walker BooksShortlist
2006Baby BookPeek-a-Boo!Child’s PlayShortlist
2006Baby BookClackety-Clacks: BeeCampbell BooksShortlist
2006Baby Book and Catherine-Anne MacKinnonSleepy BabyUsborneShortlist
2006Emerging IllustratorAugustus and His SmileLittle Tiger PressWinner
2006Emerging IllustratorI Love My MummyBoxer BooksShortlist
2006Emerging Illustrator, written by Beth ShoshanIf Big Can... I CanMeadowsideShortlist
2006Emerging Illustrator, written by Peter DixonDad’s Bug BearRed FoxShortlist
2006Pre-SchoolMr. PusskinsOrchard BooksWinner
2006Pre-SchoolI'm Not Cute!Boxer BooksShortlist
2006Pre-SchoolTigerHarperCollins Children'sShortlist
2006Pre-SchoolWhat Pet to Get?Templar PublishingShortlist
2006Pre-SchoolOrange Pear Apple BearMacmillan Children's BooksShortlist
2006Pre-SchoolLost and FoundHarperCollins Children'sShortlist
2006Baby BookTucking In!Child's PlayWinner
2006Baby BookElmer’s First Counting BookAndersen PressShortlist
2006Baby Book and Fiona LandBaby Touch: Noisy BookLadybirdShortlist
2006Baby Book and Fiona LandBaby Touch: Peekaboo BookLadybirdShortlist
2006Baby BookLooking Good!Child’s PlayShortlist
2006Baby BookHappy BabyDorling KindersleyShortlist
2007Emerging IllustratorMonkey and MeMacmillan Children's BooksWinner
2007Emerging IllustratorTed, Bo and Diz: The First AdventureLittle Tiger PressShortlist
2007Emerging IllustratorTimothy and the Strong PyjamasAlison Green BooksShortlist
2007Emerging Illustrator, written by Andrew Fusek Peters'Child’s PlayShortlist
2007Pre-SchoolPenguinWalker BooksWinner
2007Pre-School and Nick MalandOliver Who Would Not SleepHodder Children’s BooksShortlist
2007Pre-SchoolEliza and the MoonchildAndersen PressShortlist
2007Pre-School and Neal LaytonThat Rabbit Belongs to Emily BrownOrchard BooksShortlist
2007Pre-SchoolDexter Bexley and his Big Blue BeastieDoubledayShortlist
2007Pre-School and Tony RossGrill Pan EddyAndersen PressShortlist
2008Baby BookIs This My Nose?Red FoxWinner
2008Baby BookBaby's Very First Book: DayCampbell BooksShortlist
2008Baby Book and Emma DoddAmazing Baby: Rainbow Fun!TemplarShortlist
2008Baby Book and Rachael ParfittBaby Loves Peekaboo!Dorling KindersleyShortlist
2008Baby Book and Fiona LandBaby Touch: Playtime Book and DVDLadybirdShortlist
2008Baby Book and Jane ChapmanDaddy HugHarperCollins Children'sShortlist
2008Emerging IllustratorHere Comes Frankie!Macmillan Children's BooksWinner
2008Emerging IllustratorThat Yucky Love ThingGullane Children's BooksShortlist
2008Emerging IllustratorBridget FidgetPuffin BooksShortlist
2008Emerging Illustrator'Puffin BooksShortlist
2008Emerging IllustratorEliot Jones, Midnight SuperheroScholastic Children's BooksShortlist
2008Emerging IllustratorApeWalker BooksShortlist
2008Pre-School and Gwen MillwardThe Bog BabyPuffin BooksWinner
2008Pre-School and Russell JulianIt's a George Thing!Egmont BooksShortlist
2008Pre-School and Russell AytoThe Cow That Laid an EggHarperCollins Children'sShortlist
2008Pre-SchoolGrizzly DadDavid Fickling BooksShortlist
2008Pre-SchoolWendel's WorkshopMacmillan Children's BooksShortlist
2008Pre-School and Garry ParsonsThere's An Ouch in My Pouch!Puffin BooksShortlist
2009Baby BookChickPuffin BooksWinner
2009Emerging IllustratorBox of TricksJonathan CapeWinner
2009Pre-School and Nick MalandOliver Who Travelled Far and WideHodder Children's BooksWinner
2010Baby BookI Love My MummyOrchard BooksWinner
2010Emerging Illustrator'TemplarWinner
2010Pre-SchoolOne Smart FishRed FoxWinner