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Early Years Awards 2005

2005 winners

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Baby Book Award Poppy Cat's Farm by Lara Jones (Campbell Books)

Pre School Award The Very Dizzy Dinosaur by Jack Tickle (Little Tiger Press)

Best New Illustrator The Fantastic Mr Wani by Kanako Usui (Little Tiger Press)

2005 shortlist

Baby Book Award

No Bed Without Ted by Nicola Smee (Bloomsbury)

Poppy Cat's Farm by Lara Jones (Campbell Books)

Look at Me! by Joanne Partis (Chrysalis Books)

Bathtime Peekaboo! By DK Team (Dorling Kindersley)

Can You Cuddle Like a Koala? by John Butler (Little Orchard)

Not So Loud, Oliver! by Tony Maddox (Little Tiger)

Pre School Award

Duck’s Key Where Can it be? by Jez Alborough (HarperCollins Children’s)

The Very Dizzy Dinosaur by Jack Tickle (Little Tiger Press)

Pond Goose by Caroline Jayne Church (OUP)

Doing the Animal Bop by Jan Ormerod, illus. Lindsey Gardiner (OUP)

A Chair for Baby Bear by Kaye Umansky, illus. Chris Fisher (OUP)

My Friend Gorilla by Atsuko Morozumi (Mathew Price Books)

Best New Illustrator

Russell the Sheep by Rob Scotton (HarperCollins Children's)

The Fantastic Mr Wani by Kanako Usui (Little Tiger Press)

Little Green Monsters illustrated by Heather Allen (Meadowside)

Eric the Liontamer illustrated by Uwe Mayer (Meadowside)

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