Thursday, April 23, 2015

The Environmental Book Club

Yesterday was Earth Day, which means the Green Earth Book Awards were announced by The Nature Generation.

Fiction Winners


  • The Promise by Nicola Davies with illustrations by Laura Carlin  Picture Book
  • Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly Children's
  • Threatened by Eliot Schrefer Young Adult

Nonfiction Winners


  • Plastic, Ahoy!:  Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by Patricia Newman with illustrations by Annie Crawley Children's
  • Eyes Wide Open:  Going Behind the Environmental Headlines by Paul Fleischman 

Honor Winners


  • A Bird On Water Street by Elizabeth O. Dulemba 
  • A Boy and a Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz with illustrations by Catia Chien
  • Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla by Katherine Applegate with illustrations by G. Brian Karas
  • Josie and the Fourth Grade Bike Brigade by Beth Handman, Kenny Bruno, and Antonia Bruno
  • Pills and Starships by Lydia Millet
  • Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by Margarita Engle
  • The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees:  A Scientific Mystery by Sandra Markle
  • The Kid’s Guide to Exploring Nature by the Education Staff of Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Sarah Schmidt, editor, and Laszlo Veres, illustrator
  • The Next Wave: The Quest to Harness the Power of the Oceans by Elizabeth Rusch
Notice Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla is an honor winner. We were just talking about that book.

And you can check out the list of all nominees.



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