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The Booktrust Early Years Awards, originally the Sainsbury’s Baby Book Award(s), 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 it was sponsored by the supermarket chain Sainsbury's. The last Awards year was 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.

List of prize winners

  • 2010
    • Baby Book Award: Giles Andreae, I Love My Mummy (Orchard Books)
    • Pre-School Award: Chris Wormell, One Smart Fish (Red Fox)
    • Best Emerging Illustrator Award: Levi Pinfold, for The Django (Templar)
  • 2009
    • Baby Book Award: Ed Vere, Chick (Puffin)
    • Pre-School Award: Mara Bergman & Nick Maland, Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide (Hodder Children's Books)
    • Best Emerging Illustrator Award: Katie Cleminson for Box of Tricks (Jonathan Cape)
  • 2008
    • Baby Book Award: Georgie Birkett, Is This My Nose? (Red Fox)
    • Pre-School Award: Jeanne Willis & Gwen Millward, The Bog Baby (Puffin Books)
    • Best Emerging Illustrator Award: Tim Hopgood, for Here Comes Frankie! (Macmillan Children's Books)
  • 2007
    • Baby Book Award: Jess Stockham, Tucking In! (Child's Play)
    • Pre-School Award: Polly Dunbar, Penguin (Walker Books)
    • Best Emerging Illustrator Award: Emily Gravett, for Monkey and Me (Macmillan)
  • 2006
    • Baby Book Award: Mandy Stanley, How Do You Feel? (HarperCollins Children's)
    • Pre-School Award: Sam Lloyd, Mr. Pusskins (Orchard Books)
    • Best New Illustrator Award: Catherine Rayner, for Augustus and His Smile (Little Tiger Press)
  • 2005
    • Baby Book Award: Lara Jones, Poppy Cat’s Farm (Campbell Books)
    • Pre-School Award: Jack Tickle, The Very Dizzy Dinosaur (Little Tiger Press)
    • Best New Illustrator Award: Kanako Usui, for The Fantastic Mr Wani (Little Tiger Press)
  • 2004
  • 2003
    • Sam Lloyd, Happy Dog, Sad Dog (Little Tiger Press)
  • 2002
    • Annie Kubler, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (Child's Play)
  • 2001
    • Sandra Lousada, Baby Faces (Baby Campbell)
  • 2000
    • Alex Ayliffe, Boo Barney (Orchard Books)
  • 1999

Shortlists

  • 2008
    • Baby Book Award:
      • Angela Brooksbank, Baby's Very First Book: Day (Campbell Books)
      • Dawn Sirett & Rachael Parfitt, Baby Loves Peekaboo! (Dorling Kindersley)
      • Tim Warnes & Jane Chapman, Daddy Hug (HarperCollins Children's Books)
      • Justine Smith & Fiona Land, Baby Touch: Playtime Book and DVD (Ladybird)
      • Georgie Birkett, Is This My Nose? (Red Fox)
      • Emily Hawkins & Emma Dodd, Amazing Baby: Rainbow Fun! (Templar)
    • Pre-School Award:
      • David Bedford & Russell Julian, It's a George Thing! (Egmont Books)
      • Joanna Harrison, Grizzly Dad (David Fickling Books)
      • Andy Cutbill & Russell Ayto, The Cow That Laid an Egg (HarperCollins Children's Books)
      • Chris Riddell, Wendel's Workshop (Macmillan Children's Books)
      • Jeanne Willis & Gwen Millward, The Bog Baby (Puffin Books)
      • Jeanne Willis & Garry Parsons, There's An Ouch in My Pouch! (Puffin Books)
    • Best Emerging Illustrator Award:
      • Victoria Ball, for That Yucky Love Thing (Gullane Children's Books)
      • Tim Hopgood, for Here Comes Frankie! (Macmillan Children's Books)
      • Alex T. Smith, for Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero (Scholastic Children's Books)
      • Joe Berger, for Bridget Fidget (Puffin Books)
      • Gwen Millward, for The Bog Baby (Puffin Books)
      • Vicky White, for Ape (Walker Books)
  • 2007
    • Baby Book Award:
      • David McKee, Elmer’s First Counting Book (Andersen Press)
      • Justine Smith & Fiona Land, Baby Touch: Noisy Book (Ladybird)
      • Justine Smith & Fiona Land, Baby Touch: Peekaboo Book (Ladybird)
      • Jess Stockham, Looking Good! (Child’s Play)
      • Jess Stockham, Tucking In! (Child's Play)
      • Dr Miriam Stoppard, Happy Baby (Dorling Kindersley)
    • Pre-School Award:
    • Best Emerging Illustrator Award:
      • Jason Chapman, for Ted, Bo and Diz: The First Adventure (Little Tiger Press)
      • Emily Gravett, for Monkey and Me (Macmillan)
      • Viviane Schwarz, for Timothy and the Strong Pyjamas (Alison Green Books)
      • Anna Wadham, for The Ant and the Big Bad Bully Goat - written by Andrew Fusek Peters (Child’s Play)
  • 2006
    • Baby Book Award:
      • Marie Birkinshaw & Kate Merritt, Night, Night, Baby (Ladybird)
      • Kathy Henderson & Paul Howard, Look at You! (Walker Books)
      • Annie Kubler, Peek-a-Boo! (Child’s Play)
      • Luana Rinaldo, Clackety-Clacks: Bee (Campbell Books)
      • Mandy Stanley, How Do You Feel? (HarperCollins Children's)
      • Fiona Watt & Catherine-Anne MacKinnon, Sleepy Baby (Usborne)
    • Pre-School Award:
    • Best Emerging Illustrator Award:
      • Sebastien Braun, for I Love My Mummy (Boxer Books)
      • Petra Brown, for If Big Can... I Can - written by Beth Shoshan (Meadowside)
      • Natalie Chivers, for Dad’s Bug Bear - written by Peter Dixon (Red Fox)
      • Catherine Rayner, for Augustus and His Smile (Little Tiger Press)
  • 2005
    • Baby Book Award:
      • John Butler, Can You Cuddle Like a Koala? (Little Orchard)
      • DK Team, Bathtime Peekaboo! (Dorling Kindersley)
      • Lara Jones, Poppy Cat’s Farm (Campbell Books)
      • Tony Maddox, Not So Loud, Oliver! (Little Orchard)
      • Joanne Partis, Look at Me! (Chrysalis Books)
      • Nicola Smee, No Bed Without Ted (Bloomsbury)
    • Pre-School Award:
      • Jez Alborough, Duck's Key Where Can it be? (HarperCollins Children's)
      • Caroline Jayne Church, Pond Goose (OUP)
      • Atsuko Morozumi, My Friend Gorilla (Mathew Price Books)
      • Jan Ormerod & Lindsey Gardiner, Doing the Animal Bop (OUP)
      • Jack Tickle, The Very Dizzy Dinosaur (Little Tiger Press)
      • Kaye Umansky & Chris Fisher, A Chair for Baby Bear (OUP)
    • Best New Illustrator Award:
      • Heather Allen, for Little Green Monsters - written by Alec Sillifant (Meadowside)
      • Uwe Mayer, for Eric the Liontamer - written by Rachel Elliot (Meadowside)
      • Rob Scotton, for Russell the Sheep (HarperCollins Children's)
      • Kanako Usui, for The Fantastic Mr Wani (Little Tiger Press)
  • 2003
    • Roger Priddy, Baby Activity Centre (Priddy Books)
    • Sam Lloyd, Happy Dog, Sad Dog (Little Tiger Press)
    • Fiona Watt & Rachel Wells, That’s Not My Bear (Usborne Publishing)
    • DK Team, Baby Fun: Five in the Bed (Dorling Kindersley)
    • Lara Jones, Goodnight, Poppy Cat (Campbell Books)
    • Amanda Wood & Fiona Macmillan, Baby Boo! (Templar).
  • 2001
    • Debi Gliori, Where, Oh Where, is Baby Bear? (Little Orchard)
    • Annie Kubler, If You're Happy and You Know It... (Child's Play)
    • Jo Lodge, Baby's Very First Book: Farm (Baby Campbell)
    • Sandra Lousada, Baby Faces (Baby Campbell)
    • Mandy Ross & Kate Merritt, Peekaboo Baby! (Ladybird)
    • Nicola Smee, Sleepyhead (Baby Campbell)
  • 1999
    • Steve Bland, Woof! (Macmillan)
    • Lucy Cousins, Humpty Dumpty and Other Nursery Rhymes (Macmillan)
    • Debbie MacKinnon & Anthea Sieveking, Find My Cake! (Frances Lincoln)
    • Jan Ormerod, Peek-a-Boo! (Dutton)
    • Helen Oxenbury, Tickle, Tickle (Walker Books)
    • Nick Sharratt, A Bear with a Pear (Macmillan)
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