Green Earth Book Award

Overview

Current Contest

Past Winners

2010 Winners

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Winner — Picture Book Category

Miss Fox’s Class Goes Green

written by Eileen Spinelli and illustrated by Anne Kennedy
(published by Albert Whitman & Company)

Winner — Children’s Fiction Category

Operation Redwood
written by S. Terrell French
(published by Abrams/Amulet Books)

Winner — Young Adult Fiction Category

The Carbon Diaries: 2015

written by Saci Lloyd (published by Holiday House)

Winner — Nonfiction Category

Earth in the Hot Seat: Bulletins from a Warming World
written by Marfe Ferguson Delano
(published by National Geographic Children’s Books)

Honor Books

A Place for Birds
written by Melissa Stewart and illustrated by Higgins Bond (published by Peachtree Publishers)

A Summer of Silk Moths
written by Margaret Willey (published by Flux)

Heroes of the Environment
written by Harriet Rohmer and illustrated by Julie McLaughlin (published by Chronicle Books)

Mission: Save the Planet and Mission: Planet Earth
written by Sally Ride & Tom O'Shaughnessy (published by Roaring Brook, An Imprint of MacMillan Children’s Publishing Group)

Recycle this Book: 100 Top Children's Authors Tell You How to Go Green
written by Dan Gutman (published by Random House Children’s Books)

Redwoods
written and illustrated by Jason Chin (published by Roaring Brook Press, An Imprint of MacMillan Children’s Publishing Group)

SCAT
written by Carl Hiaasen (published by Random House Children’s Books)

The Curious Garden
written and illustrated by Peter Brown (published by Little Brown Books for Young Readers)

The Frog Scientist
written by Pamela S. Turner and photographed by Andy Comis (published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Children)

2009 Winners

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Co-Winners — Picture Book Category

Planting the Trees of Kenya

written and illustrated by Claire A. Nivola
(published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers)

Varmints

written by Helen Ward and illustrated by Marc Craste (published by Candlewick Press)

Winner — Children’s Fiction Category

Night of the Spadefoot Toads written by Bill Harley (published by Peachtree Publishers)

Co-Winners — Young Adult Fiction Category

Blind Faith Hotel

written by Pamela Todd (published by Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing)

Write Naked

written by Peter Gould (published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Books for Young Readers)

Winner — Nonfiction Category

My Space/Our Planet written by the Myspace Community, Jeca Taudte, and Dan Santat (published by The Bowen Press)

Honor Books

10 Things I Can Do to Help My World
written and illustrated by Melanie Walsh (published by Candlewick Press)

Cam Jansen and the Green School Mystery
written by David A. Adler and illustrated by Joy Allen (published by Viking Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)

Fern Verdant and the Silver Rose
written by Diana Leszczynski (published by Random House Children’s Books)

Generation Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life
written by Linda Siversten and Tosh Siversten (published by Simon Pulse/Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing)

How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming
written by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch (published by Dawn Publications)

Science Warriors: The Battle Against Invasive Species
written by Sneed B. Collard III (published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

The Last Wild Place
written by Rosa Jordan (published by Peachtree Publishers)

The Wolves Are Back
written by Jean Craighead George and illustrated by Wendell Minor (published by Dutton Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group)

Tin Lizzie
written and illustrated by Allan Drummond (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers)

Whirlwind
written by David Klass (published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Books for Young Readers)

When Santa Turned Green
written by Victoria Perla and illustrated by Mirna Kantarevic (published by Thomas Nelson Inc.)

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!