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.