Green Earth Book Award

Past Winners

2008 Winners

Winner — Children Fiction Category

Winston of Churchill: One Bear’s Battle Against Global Warming, written by Jean Davies Okimoto and illustrated by Jeremiah Trammell (published by Sasquatch Books)

Winner — Young Adult Fiction Category

The Light-Bearer’s Daughter, written by O. R. Melling (published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Abrams Books for Young Readers)

Winner — Nonfiction Category

The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming, written by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon (published by Scholastic, Inc.)

Recipient of Environmental Donation

$500 to Polar Bears International

$500 to the Golden Eagle Restoration Project

$500 to StopGlobalWarming.org

Honor Books

Adventures of Riley: Polar Bear Puzzle, written by Amanda Lumry and Laura Hurwitz (published by Eaglemont Press)

An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming, written by Al Gore and adapted by Jane O’Connor (published by Viking Children’s Books)

On Meadowview Street, written and illustrated by Henry Cole (published by Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

Secrets of the Sirens, written by Julia Golding (published by Marshall Cavendish Children’s)

The Sorta Sisters, , written by Adrian Fogelin (published by Peachtree Publishers)

2007

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Winner — Children Category

Uno's Garden, written and illustrated by Graeme Base

Winner — Young Adult Fiction Category

Flash Point, written by Sneed B. Collard III

Winner — Nonfiction Category

A Place for Butterflies, written by Melissa Stewart and illustrated by Higgins Bond

Recipient of Environmental Donation

$500 to the World Wildlife Fund

$500 to the Massachusetts Audubon Society

$250 to the Union of Concerned Scientists

$250 to the Rainforest Action Network

Honor Books

Abigale the Happy Whale, written by Peter Farrelly and illustrated by Jamie Rama

All the Way to the Ocean, written by Joel Harper and illustrated by Marq Spusta

Firestorm: The Caretaker Trilogy: Book 1, written by David Klass

Frog Heaven, written by Doug Wechsler

Home and Other Big Fat Lies, written by Jill Wolfson

Quest for the Tree Kangaroo, written by Sy Montgomery and illustrated by Nic Bishop

Saving the Buffalo, written by Albert Marrin

2006

Winner - Children Category

Near One Cattail: Turtles, Logs, and Leaping Frogs, written by Anthony D. Fredericks and illustrated by Jennifer DiRubbio

Winner - Young Adult Category

Flush by Carl Hiassen

Recipient of Environmental Donation

$500 to the Roaring Fork Conservancy

$500 to the National Audubon Society

Honor Books

Let the River Run Silver Again!, written by Sandy Burk

The World That We Want, written and illustrated by Kim Michelle Toft

Circles of Hope, written by Karen Lynn Williams and illustrated by Linda Sport

The Secret Under My Skin, written by Janet McNaughton

2005

Winner - Children Category

The Sea, the Storm and the Mangrove Tangle Book Cover

The Sea, the Storm and the Mangrove Tangle, written and illustrated by Lynne Cherry

Recipient of Environmental Donation

$500 to the Mangrove Action Project

Honor Books - Children Category

Tree of Life, written by Rochelle Strauss and illustrated by Margot Thompson

Garden of the Spirit Bear, written by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent and illustrated by Deborah Milton

Ordering Information

If you purchase any of our winning books from NMF, 30% of the proceeds go back into the book award program. Contact Jenny Schmidt to order your books now!