Green Earth Book Award
Join us as we celebrate the winners of the 2008 Green Earth Book Award! These events are part of Salisbury University’s Children and Young Adult Literature Festival.
Community Event and Award Ceremony
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Salisbury University
Wicomico Room
Guerrieri University Center
Salisbury, Maryland
Author’s Breakfast
Thursday, April 3, 2008
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Poplar Hill Mansion
117 Elizabeth Street
Salisbury, Maryland
These events are free and open to the public
The following authors will be in attendance:
Jean Davies Okimoto,
Winston of Churchill: One Bear’s Battle Against Global Warming
Cambria Gordon,
The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming
OR Melling,
The Light-Bearer’s Daughter
Henry Cole,
On Meadowview Street
Adrian Fogelin,
The Sorta Sisters
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More about the Authors
Jean Davies Okimoto
Jean Davies Okimoto is the recipient of the American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults Award, the International Reading Association’s Reader’s Choice Award, the IRA/CBC Young Adults’ Choice Award, the Parents’ Choice Award, the Washington Governor’s Award, the Maxwell Medallion for Best Children’s Book of the Year, and is the author of two Smithsonian Notable Books. Her picture book, Blumpoe the Grumpoe Meets Arnold the Cat was adapted by Shelly Duvall for the HBO and Showtime television series “Bedtime Stories.” She and her husband Joe live on Vashon Island, Washington. Together they have four grown children, six grandchildren and a dog who thinks it’s a person.
Cambria Gordon
Cambria Gordon is the co-author with Laurie David of The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming. A former award-winning advertising copywriter, she now pursues children's writing full time. She has written the nonfiction book Fifty Nifty Crafts to Make with Things Around the House and an episode of Madeline, the award-winning animated television series, for the Disney Channel. The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming is being published in nine countries and is the GEBA winner in the nonfiction category. Cambria Gordon is a member of the NRDC Leadership Council, serves on the board of EcoPerks and lives with her husband and three children in Pacific Palisades, California.
OR Melling
OR Melling grew up in Toronto with her seven sisters and two brothers. At eighteen, she hitch-hiked across Canada and down through California, seeking adventure. A year later, she was off to Malaysia and Borneo on a youth exchange program. That set her motto for life, “to travel hopefully.” During her years at university, she was an ROUTP cadet (reserve officer university training program), achieving the rank of Sublieutenant (Naval Reserve). She has a B.A. in Philosophy and Celtic Studies, and an M.A. Medieval Irish History. To date, her books have been translated into German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Czech, and Slovenian. She lives in a small town by the Irish Sea with her teenage daughter, Findabhair, and her cat, Emma.
Henry Cole
Henry Cole is an illustrator who has worked on more than 50 books. He has also written and illustrated several books on his own. One of his favorite book topics is nature, which is no surprise since he’s a former elementary school science teacher.
His books include such beloved titles as Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke, Livingston Mouse, Some Smug Slug, The Worrywarts, Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad, I Took a Walk, Jack’s Garden, and others. He has also worked with a number of celebrity authors to create children’s books, including Julie Andrews and Harvey Fierstein.
Adrian Fogelin
Adrian Fogelin has written seven award winning novels for young readers including Crossing Jordan, My Brother's Hero, and The Real Question. Her latest novel The Sorta Sisters was an honor recipient for the Green Earth Book Award. In this beautifully written story, two young tweens with a love of nature begin a pen pal friendship which helps them cope with the uncertainties in their lives.
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