06/03/2014 Newsround

Good morning and happy world book day everyone - I'm Leah and here's

what's coming up. A late header wins it for England,

and Daniel Sturridge celebrates in wiggly-arm style! And the football

match where anything goes. This is Newsround.

Today is World Book Day, a huge celebration of authors, illustrators

and books. In over a hundred countries all over the world kids

will be celebrating reading. And thousands of you up and down the UK

will be going to school this morning dressed as characters from your

favourite stories. But before you head out the door make sure you take

a snap of you in your costume and send it in to the Newsround website.

And as you can see with my red shoes, I've obviously come as

Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz! And in a couple of moments we'll reveal

live on the programme the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award for Best

Story. For that annoucement let me welcome award-winning author and

competition judge Marcus Sedgwick to the Newsround sofa. Good morning,

Marcus. It is very early. Was it hard to judge the winner? Yes, it

always is. It seems like an impossible position, but I had two

great judges working with me. And you yourself have been a winner of

this. I have. It is a wonderful thing. It was a couple of years ago,

and it is a very exciting thing. Those others who grew up watching

Blue Peter, to win their book award is quite an exciting thing. Let's

talk about the winner. I think it is time to reveal that moment. Drum

roll, please. The winner is? The winner is Catherine Randall. This is

a beautiful book, magical. It felt a lot like a fairy tale. It is about a

young girl called Sophie who doesn't have a mother and she wants to know

who her mother is. She takes her guardian Charles on an adventure to

Paris and over the rooftops. And what will this award mean to

Katherine? It is only her second book, and to win such a big prize so

early in your writing career really should set her in good stead for the

future. Marcus, thank you. And Katherine will be right here on the

Newsround sofa at 0815. And you can then catch her collecting her award

on Blue Peter, at 5.30 on CBBC, and that's also where you'll find out

which book characters Barney, Lindsey and Radzi will dress up as.

Moving on. A boy from Preston has become the youngest person ever to

successfully carry out atomic fusion. 13-year-old Jamie built a

nuclear reactor at school before successfully smashing two hydrogen

atoms together to make helium. The results still need to be verified,

but Jamie was pretty excited by his experiment. I was altering the high

voltage and checking the pressure inside the chamber, and then I heard

that Geiger can to go up and Spike, so I wondered what was happening.

The neutron counter went crazy. It was brilliant. You can make

something that you might see in a star at night in a little chamber.

That is just magic. Jamie is amazing.

Sport now. All the home nations were in action last night for friendlies

ahead of the summer's footy World Cup in Brazil, and the Euro 2016

qualifying campaigns. Roy Hodgson's England side left it late. Daniel

Sturridge scored the only goal of a slow-moving game against Denmark

with a cracking header. The Liverpool striker then treated fans

to his brand-new wiggly-arm dance. Nice moves, Daniel.

And Gareth Bale starred in an impressive 3-1 win for Wales over

Iceland in Cardiff. Having set up the first goal, the Real Madrid ace

then picked up the third himself, for Chris Coleman's side. Elsewhere

Scotland beat Poland 1-0, but Northern Ireland went goalless

against Cyprus. But now to a football match like no

other. Hundreds of people took part in the yearly Shrovetide match in

Ashborne yesterday. Pretty much anything goes in the fast-paced

match, you can even shove and grab other players, in fact one of the

only rules is that you can't carry the ball in a car! The aim is to get

the ball to the goal posts, which are in the middle of a river. Not

one for the easily bruised that one. And in warmer locations, England's

cricketers are celebrating a 2-1 series win over the West Indies.

After picking up a nasty bruise when he was hit on the thumb early on,

Joe Root fought through the pain to score his first one-day

international century, to give Stuart Broad's men a twenty-five run

victory in the final match in Antigua.

That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour

where we'll be chatting to the Blue Peter book award winner, Katherine

Rundell.