Night of the Spadefoot Toads wins Green Earth Book Award!, 2/09

2009 National Green Earth Book Award Winners Announced

The Newton Marasco Foundation (NMF) has announced the winners of the leading national environmental book awards for literature that inspires young readers to appreciate and care for the environment. The 2009 Green Earth Book Awards highlight the best in environmental reading for children and young adults.

NMF, a non-profit public environmental charity, partners with Salisbury University in Maryland to honor and promote environmental books that not only raise awareness of environmental issues, but also instill a sense of responsibility for nurturing, protecting and defending the natural environment. The Green Earth Book Award is the nation’s first environmental stewardship book award for children and young adult literature.

There are six winners who will receive this year’s 2009 Green Earth Book Awards:

• Planting the Trees of Kenya written and illustrated by Claire A. Nivola
  
• Varmints written by Helen Ward and illustrated by Marc Craste
  
• My Space/Our Planet written by Myspace Community, Jeca Taudte, and Dan Santat
  
• Night of the Spadefoot Toads written by Bill Harley
  
• Blind Faith Hotel written by Pamela Todd
  
• Write Naked written by Peter Gould

The 2009 Green Earth Book Awards are supported by Salisbury University, Constellation Energy, Comcast, Delmarva Recycling, Affiliated Power Purchasers International, and Pepsi Bottling Ventures of Delmarva.

Awards will be presented to the winning authors on April 14, 2009 at the Ward Museum in Salisbury, Maryland.

For more information about the Green Earth Book Awards and the Newton Marasco Foundation, visit their website: www.newtonmarascofoundation.org.