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The capsule contains one of the recent Blue Peter books, two video tapes of the show's best bits from 1999, two video tapes of the 7 January 2000 unearthing, photographs of the presenters and crew of the show in 2000 as well as a medal celebrating the show's 40th birthday in 1998, more badges, and a small plush toy of George the tortoise.
The Blue Peter Book Awards were a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme Blue Peter. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999 and 2000. The awards were managed by reading charity, BookTrust, from 2006 until the final award in 2022. From 2013 until the final award, there were two ...
Blue Peter is a British children's television programme created by John Hunter Blair.The first programme was broadcast on 16 October 1958. [1] It is the longest-running children's television programme in the world, [2] [3] and also one of the longest-running television programmes in the world.
Katherine Rundell (born 10 July 1987) is an English author and academic. She is the author of Impossible Creatures, named Waterstones Book of the Year for 2023. [1] She is also the author of Rooftoppers, which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize [2] and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, [3] and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. [4]
John Hunter Blair (4 August 1903 – 31 December 1964) was a British television producer. He was the creator of Blue Peter, and was its producer from 1958 to 1961.Asked by Owen Read, head of BBC children's television, to devise a programme for children who were now too old for Watch with Mother, the programme began on 16 October 1958 and lasted for fifteen minutes.
Alan Albert Gibbons (born 14 August 1953) is an English writer of children's books and campaigner known for his advocacy of libraries.. He has written over 60 books and won a number of awards including a Blue Peter Book Award for his best-selling book Shadow of the Minotaur.
Butchart won the 2015 Blue Peter Book Award for Best story for her book, The Spy Who Loved School Dinners which was illustrated by Thomas Flintham. [4] In 2016, Butchart's book, My Teacher is a Vampire Rat won the Red House Children's Book Award in the Young Readers Category and for overall winner. [5]
Blue Peter The Inside Story. Letchworth: Ringpress Books. ISBN 0-948955-50-3. The Mark Lawson Interview, repeatedly broadcast on BBC 4 throughout May 2007 as part of the 'Children's Television' season. Biddy Baxter biography and credits at the BFI's Screenonline