Green Earth Book Award Celebration

GreenEarth Book Award LogoJoin us as we celebrate the winners of the 2010 Green Earth Book Award!

 

For a full schedule of author appearances and events, please visit the web site of Salisbury University’s Children and Young Adult Literature Festival.

April 9, 2010 — 7 to 9 p.m.

Poplar Hill Mansion

Salisbury, Maryland

 

 

This is an invitation-only event

However, if you are interested in attending, please contact Jenny Schmidt.

 

The following Green Earth Award-winning authors and illustrators will be in attendance:

Marfe Ferguson Delano, Earth in the Hot Seat: Bulletins from a Warming World
S. Terrell French, Author, Operation Redwood
Anne Kennedy, Illustrator, Miss Fox’s Class Goes Green
Eileen Spinelli, Author, Miss Fox’s Class Goes Green

These well-known authors will also be featured:

Michael Buckley, The Sisters Grimm
Peter Gould, Write Naked

 

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.

Booz Allen Hamilton

Project Performance

 Tetra Tech

About all the Green Earth Book Award Authors and Illustrators

 

Marfe Ferguson Delano

Marfe photo.gifMarfe 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

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 LloydSaci 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 SpinelliEileen 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.