:00:00. > :00:09.Good morning and happy world book day everyone - I'm Leah and here's
:00:10. > :00:13.what's coming up. A late header wins it for England,
:00:14. > :00:17.and Daniel Sturridge celebrates in wiggly-arm style! And the football
:00:18. > :00:23.match where anything goes. This is Newsround.
:00:24. > :00:30.Today is World Book Day, a huge celebration of authors, illustrators
:00:31. > :00:33.and books. In over a hundred countries all over the world kids
:00:34. > :00:37.will be celebrating reading. And thousands of you up and down the UK
:00:38. > :00:40.will be going to school this morning dressed as characters from your
:00:41. > :00:44.favourite stories. But before you head out the door make sure you take
:00:45. > :00:49.a snap of you in your costume and send it in to the Newsround website.
:00:50. > :00:52.And as you can see with my red shoes, I've obviously come as
:00:53. > :00:56.Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz! And in a couple of moments we'll reveal
:00:57. > :01:00.live on the programme the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award for Best
:01:01. > :01:02.Story. For that annoucement let me welcome award-winning author and
:01:03. > :01:16.competition judge Marcus Sedgwick to the Newsround sofa. Good morning,
:01:17. > :01:21.Marcus. It is very early. Was it hard to judge the winner? Yes, it
:01:22. > :01:29.always is. It seems like an impossible position, but I had two
:01:30. > :01:33.great judges working with me. And you yourself have been a winner of
:01:34. > :01:37.this. I have. It is a wonderful thing. It was a couple of years ago,
:01:38. > :01:42.and it is a very exciting thing. Those others who grew up watching
:01:43. > :01:46.Blue Peter, to win their book award is quite an exciting thing. Let's
:01:47. > :01:55.talk about the winner. I think it is time to reveal that moment. Drum
:01:56. > :02:04.roll, please. The winner is? The winner is Catherine Randall. This is
:02:05. > :02:08.a beautiful book, magical. It felt a lot like a fairy tale. It is about a
:02:09. > :02:13.young girl called Sophie who doesn't have a mother and she wants to know
:02:14. > :02:19.who her mother is. She takes her guardian Charles on an adventure to
:02:20. > :02:24.Paris and over the rooftops. And what will this award mean to
:02:25. > :02:28.Katherine? It is only her second book, and to win such a big prize so
:02:29. > :02:34.early in your writing career really should set her in good stead for the
:02:35. > :02:38.future. Marcus, thank you. And Katherine will be right here on the
:02:39. > :02:42.Newsround sofa at 0815. And you can then catch her collecting her award
:02:43. > :02:44.on Blue Peter, at 5.30 on CBBC, and that's also where you'll find out
:02:45. > :02:49.which book characters Barney, Lindsey and Radzi will dress up as.
:02:50. > :02:52.Moving on. A boy from Preston has become the youngest person ever to
:02:53. > :02:54.successfully carry out atomic fusion. 13-year-old Jamie built a
:02:55. > :02:59.nuclear reactor at school before successfully smashing two hydrogen
:03:00. > :03:03.atoms together to make helium. The results still need to be verified,
:03:04. > :03:11.but Jamie was pretty excited by his experiment. I was altering the high
:03:12. > :03:17.voltage and checking the pressure inside the chamber, and then I heard
:03:18. > :03:22.that Geiger can to go up and Spike, so I wondered what was happening.
:03:23. > :03:29.The neutron counter went crazy. It was brilliant. You can make
:03:30. > :03:32.something that you might see in a star at night in a little chamber.
:03:33. > :03:36.That is just magic. Jamie is amazing.
:03:37. > :03:39.Sport now. All the home nations were in action last night for friendlies
:03:40. > :03:42.ahead of the summer's footy World Cup in Brazil, and the Euro 2016
:03:43. > :03:45.qualifying campaigns. Roy Hodgson's England side left it late. Daniel
:03:46. > :03:48.Sturridge scored the only goal of a slow-moving game against Denmark
:03:49. > :03:52.with a cracking header. The Liverpool striker then treated fans
:03:53. > :03:55.to his brand-new wiggly-arm dance. Nice moves, Daniel.
:03:56. > :03:59.And Gareth Bale starred in an impressive 3-1 win for Wales over
:04:00. > :04:02.Iceland in Cardiff. Having set up the first goal, the Real Madrid ace
:04:03. > :04:05.then picked up the third himself, for Chris Coleman's side. Elsewhere
:04:06. > :04:07.Scotland beat Poland 1-0, but Northern Ireland went goalless
:04:08. > :04:11.against Cyprus. But now to a football match like no
:04:12. > :04:16.other. Hundreds of people took part in the yearly Shrovetide match in
:04:17. > :04:20.Ashborne yesterday. Pretty much anything goes in the fast-paced
:04:21. > :04:24.match, you can even shove and grab other players, in fact one of the
:04:25. > :04:28.only rules is that you can't carry the ball in a car! The aim is to get
:04:29. > :04:32.the ball to the goal posts, which are in the middle of a river. Not
:04:33. > :04:35.one for the easily bruised that one. And in warmer locations, England's
:04:36. > :04:41.cricketers are celebrating a 2-1 series win over the West Indies.
:04:42. > :04:45.After picking up a nasty bruise when he was hit on the thumb early on,
:04:46. > :04:47.Joe Root fought through the pain to score his first one-day
:04:48. > :04:50.international century, to give Stuart Broad's men a twenty-five run
:04:51. > :04:52.victory in the final match in Antigua.
:04:53. > :04:56.That's all from me, Newsround's back right here in about half an hour
:04:57. > :04:57.where we'll be chatting to the Blue Peter book award winner, Katherine
:04:58. > :04:59.Rundell.