Green Earth Book Award Celebration

The 2010 Green Earth Book Awards were presented at the Salisbury University’s Children’s and Young Adult Literature Festival in Salisbury, Maryland on April 8 — 10th. This year, over 450 people attended the opening evening event where current and past Green Earth Book Award authors were in attendance.

Our Green Earth Literature Program aims to bring the important message these authors share in their stories to children through donated books. During this year’s ceremony, NMF donated books to 90 Kindergartners and 40 middle school students in Title I schools in Salisbury. The students could be heard making comments such as, “Do you mean I don’t have to bring this book back?” Not only were the Kindergarten children so excited to own their own book, but they spent 45 minutes with the author and illustrator of Miss Fox’s Class Goes Green, andthey brainstormed and participated in learning activities on how to practice environmental stewardship. Additionally, authors and illustrators went to schools and held workshops on campus with local elementary and middle schools. Authorsalso attended a book signing event at the Salisbury Barnes & Noble.

We’re thrilled with the reach of the Green Earth Literature Program and our goal to get books with a message of environmental stewardship into more children’s hands. We thank Salisbury University and Barnes & Noble, Salisbury for helping to make this happen during the 2010 celebrations.

Click here for more information on the Green Earth Literature Program and the 2010 winning books.

Thanks to Our Sustainable Corporate Partners

We’d like to thank our 2010 Sustainable Partners for their continued commitment to us and our youth environmental stewardship programs.

About all the Green Earth Book Award Authors and Illustrators

Marfe Ferguson Delano

Marfe photo.gif Marfe Ferguson Delano is the author of more than a dozen nonfiction books for children, ranging from award-winning biographies of Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, and Annie Sullivan to a picture book about sea monsters. She's the recipient of a Jefferson Cup Honor, an Orbis Pictus Honor, and the James Madison Book Award Honor. Her most recent book, “Earth in the Hot Seat: Bulletins from a Warming World,” tackles the subject of global warming. A graduate of Duke University, Delano lives in Alexandria, Virginia. You can visit her website at www.marfebooks.com.

S. Terrell French

ST French S. Terrell French is an environmental lawyer and first-time author. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and three children, and has made many favorite trips to the redwood forests.

Anne Kennedy

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Anne Kennedy is a published author and an illustrator of children's books. Some of the published credits of Anne Kennedy include When Posey Peeked At Christmas, Callie Cat, Ice Skater, The Best of Both Nests, and We All Fall for Apples.

Saci Lloyd

Saci Lloyd was born on December 18th, 1967 in Manchester. In 1976 her family moved to Anglesey, North Wales, where she spent most of her time fishing and wandering around the lanes and fields with dogs and horses like some kind of mythical bog child.

Saci returned to Manchester as an undergraduate, but soon left for a life of glamour. At various points in the glitz she worked as a very bad cartoonist, toured the States in a straightedge band, ran an interactive media team at an advertising agency, co-founded a film company and finally wound up as head of media at NewVIc. Her first novel, The Carbon Diaries 2015 came out to critical acclaim. Her new book, cunningly titled The Carbon Diaries 2017, will be published in the UK in September 2009

Eileen Spinelli

Eileen Spinelli has been writing since she was six and has authored more than thirty books of stories and poetry for children including Thanksgiving at the Tappletons; Boy, Can He Dance!; If You Want to Find Golden; and Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch, which won the 1991 Christopher Award. A member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Ms. Spinelli won the organization's Magazine Merit Award for fiction in 1990.

Ms. Spinelli’s poems and stories have appeared in Highlights for Children and other children’s magazines. She won the Highlights fiction contest in 1990 for her short story “Mannerly Moose.” Eileen Spinelli is involved with Habitat for Humanity. In her spare time she enjoys gardening, traveling, and shopping at flea markets. The mother of six and grandmother of thirteen, she is married to author Jerry Spinelli. They live in West Chester, Pennsylvania.