Shadow Forest by author Matt Haig has been named book of the year at the Blue Peter Book Awards. It tells the story of two orphans in Norway stuck in a wood full of trolls. A panel of eight child judges picked the winner.
Shadow Forest also won the 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' category. Haig said he was "over-the-moon". The book beat winners from two other categories to win the overall award.
There were two other category winners. Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton, illustrated by David Tazzyman, won the Most Fun Story with Pictures prize, and Horrible Geography Handbooks – Planet in Peril by Anita Ganeri took the Best Book with Facts prize.
According to Wikipedia, the Blue Peter Book Awards are a series of literary prizes for children's literature awarded annually by the BBC television programme Blue Peter, and inaugurated in 2000. An overall award, The Blue Peter Book of the Year, is selected from the winners of three categories: "The Book I Couldn't Put Down", "The Best Book with Facts", and "The Best Illustrated Book to Read Aloud".
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