01/03/2018 Newsround

It's Thursday the 1st

of March, Ricky here

with your morning Newsround.

First, the big freeze continues

with many of you waking up

to more snow this morning.

Scotland has seen the worst of it.

The most severe weather warning

is still in place there.

Travel has been disrupted for many.

We're hearing that some people have

been stuck on the roads all night.

But we've also seen how lots

of you are enjoying the weather.

Teachers and students at a school

in Essex had a snowball

fight on a epic scale,

take a look at this.

DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.

Go!

There was another epic battle

in the snow at Wembley last night

and the weather didn't stop

Tottenham from getting

safely through to the FA

Cup quarter-finals.

They beat League One Rochdale

in their 5th round replay,

It was plain sailing this time

around for Spurs despite the snow

as Spanish striker Fernando Llorente

scored his first hattrick

for the North London side.

Once again though it was VAR that

got everyone talking after officials

took a very long time to disallow

Eric Lamela's goal after spotting

some shirt tugging.

Exciting news today!

Of course it is World Book Day

and as part of that Blue Peter has

been running some competitions.

And today we can reveal the winner

of the fact book category.

The winner is...

Well, it's Real-Life Mysteries.

But what's it all about?

Joining us is Blue Peter presenter

Lindsey, author Susan Martineau

and illustrator Vicky Barker.

Let's start with Lindsey.

Congratulations on winning this

award. Tell us a bit more about

tonight's special snow.

It will be a

good show, maybe no snowball fights.

We are dressing up, I cannot say

what is, but some good book

characters.

Congratulations, Susan

tell us more about the book.

It is a

collection of mysteries that have

always fascinated me and each story

has a case file, a bit like a cop

show crime board. There is bits of

evidence and witness statements and

maps and locations and clues. The

wonderful Vicky has made it into

this amazing illustration with all

the information I threw at her.

It

is beautiful, you must be proud of

your work.

I am.

And you should be.

What was it like putting together

all the illustrations?

It was hard

work, but fantastic, so much fun, a

good subject to work on.

And do you

love World Book Day? Did you like it

as a kid?

We are passionate about

books and the fact that we have one

means so much for us because the

viewers voted for us. It is for

them.

Do they get to take something

home with them?

We have got a proper

award show later. It will be really

good.

And because it is World Book

Day we will be dressing up later.

Can you tell us what you are going

to do?

I am not allowed. But we have

an amazing gold badge moment all to

do with a very famous author. That

is all I can say.

Will you dress up?

If you had to, what would you be?

We

nearly came as a big book. But we

didn't.

Thank you so much for

joining us.

Thank you so much for joining us.

We can't wait to find out who you're

dressing up as today.

Head online to let us

know and send us a snap!

And while you're there check out

some more top authors

giving their tips for on how

to create your own best-seller.

The rest of the winners

of Blue Peter's Book Awards will be

on the show later today.

One of them is How to Train your

Dragon author Cressida Cowell who's

won the best story prize.

It's for her book

The Wizards of Once.

She sent us this message.

Hi, I'm Cressida Cowell,

author and illustrator

of the training Dragon books

and the Wizards of Once series.

It is World Book Day and it is my

favourite day of the year.

I love World Book Day.

If I was dressing up,

I think I would probably be

Pippi Longstocking with the pigtails

and everything because she was

so cheeky and she could lift her own

horse above her head.

I am not quite sure how

I would make the horse, though.

I am so thrilled because today

I have just learned that I've won

the Blue Peter book award.

I can't tell you how happy this

makes me for my new book.

Here's to World Book

Day wherever you are.

I hope you have a great day.

Just time to go back out

into the snow and show you this.

What do you do if the weather

leaves your stuck on the bus

for two-and-a-half hours?

Sing, of course!

# Oh, the weather

outside is frightful.

# But the fire so delightful.

# Since we have no place to go...

# Let it snow, let it

snow let it snow #.

Hurray!

Have a fantastic

World Book Day, guys.

Newsround's back this afternoon.