12 Oct 2012
Last updated during 12:23 GMT
Moran writes unchanging columns for The Times and is also a best-selling author
Journalist incited author Caitlin Moran has been named as one of a judges of a 2013 Blue Peter Book Awards.
Children's author Cressida Cowell, Blue Peter editor Tim Levell and librarian Jake Hope will also lay on a panel.
Moran, author of a best-selling How To Be A Woman, pronounced it was "a sum honour" to be invited to adjudicate.
"Plus, they pronounced we could have a Blue Peter badge," a Times columnist combined in a statement. "There's a childhood dream fulfilled, right there."
As "someone lifted on books", a mom of dual pronounced there was "no some-more extraordinary universe to share with your kids than being means to stand into a book together and speak about it forever".
Submitted books are dictated for children between 6 and 12 and are judged in dual categories – "best story" and "best book with facts".
Both categories will have a shortlist of three, comparison by a adult row of judges, to be denounced on 10 January. The altogether winner, selected by Blue Peter viewers, will be announced on 7 March.
JK Rowling, Michael Morpurgo and Dame Jacqueline Wilson are among prior winners of a awards, organized in and with a Book Trust, that have been using given 2000.
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