London: Anita Ganeri, a children's book writer has been awarded the "Blue Peter Book Award" for her book Planet in Peril. Anita is an Indian-origin writer.

Introduced in 2000, the Blue Peter Book Awards are literary awards for children's literature conferred annually by the BBC television programme Blue Peter.

The book has been named amongst the Best Books comprising of facts in the Blue Peter Book Awards.

It is part of the best-sellers Horrible Geography series and provides information to the youngsters on "How to save the planet in times of global warming."