CBBC show Blue Peter has a brand new badge - a Book Badge. The badge is to celebrate reading and was designed by one of the UK's best-known illustrators, Sir Quentin Blake. It will be awarded to ...

Sir Quentin Blake has designed a new book badge for Blue Peter to encourage reading. The award drawn by the illustrator, 90, will be handed out to children aged five to 15 who send in their thoughts ...

It's time for some Halloween fun! Wicked actress Karis Musongole is in the studio with last minute costume inspiration, a tasty witches' fingers bake and the return of the Blue Peter Book Club! The ...

Departing Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq is planning to write a book about the show. She will apparently reveal insider gossip about the series - including its phone-in scandals. "I’d like to write a ...

The comic has been nominated for the Best Book with Facts category alongside Jenny Broom and Katie Scott's Animalium and Andy Seed and Scott Garrett's The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff. The ...

Books have unique significance for kids – they hold the power to shape values, dreams and aspirations for later life, as well as simply being good fun. With this in mind (and to celebrate World Book ...

Whether you’ve collected foil for one of their appeals, used sticky-back plastic to create your very own Tracy island or bagged yourself a highly coveted badge, Blue Peter would have played a part in ...

Blue Peter icon Biddy Baxter has died at the age of 92. The news was announced on Monday in a statement that read: 'We are sad to report that longtime Blue Peter Editor Biddy Baxter has died at the ...

Having started in 1958, Blue Peter has transcended generations but the BBC have announced a shake up to the 66-year-old show. The programme’s director confirmed that they will no longer be ...