Awards in your library

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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (2009, Age 0-3)
• Corduroy by Don Freeman (2009, Ages 3↑)
• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen (2009, Ages 3↑)

ABA ABBY Winner

• Brother Eagle, Sister Sky by Susan Jeffers (1992)
• Stellaluna by Janell Cannon (Children's, 1994)

Aesop Prize

• Earth Tales from around the World by Michael J. Caduto (1997)

ALA Best Books for Young Adults

• The sign of the beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (1983)
• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams (1992)

ALA Notable Children's Book

• Where Once There Was a Wood by Denise Fleming (1997)

An ALA Notable Children's Book

• SWIMMY. Caldecott Honor Book. by Leo. LIONNI

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Non-fiction, 1999)
• A Sand County almanac. With other essays on conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold (Science & Technology, 2009)

ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen ( Facing Nature Head On, 1998)

ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers

• Beneath the Sea in 3-D by Mark Blum (1998)

American Horticultural Society 75 Great American Garden Books

• Growing and propagating wild flowers by Harry R. Phillips (1997)
• Wild flowers of the United States by Harold William Rickett (1997)
• Hortus third : a concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada, by Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium., (1997)
• Common-sense pest control by William Olkowski (1997)
• Complete Shade Gardener by George Schenk (1997)
• Making Things Grow Indoors by Thalassa Cruso (1997)
• Insects that feed on trees and shrubs : an illustrated practical guide by Warren T. Johnson (1997)

American Horticultural Society Book Award

• A Tree Is Growing by Arthur Dorros (1998)

American Library Association Notable Children's Book

• Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert (2002)
• Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems (Caldecott Honor Book, BCCB Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award) by Joyce Sidman (2006)

Anne Izard Storytellers' Award

• The Children of the Morning Light: Wampanoag Tales as Told By Manitonquat by medicine st Manitonquat (1996)

BBC's Big Read

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Best loved novel, 2003, No 199)

BCCB Blue Ribbon Book

• Bird Watch by Jane Yolen (1990)
• Alison's Zinnia by Anita Lobel (1990)
• Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems (Caldecott Honor Book, BCCB Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award) by Joyce Sidman (2005)

Caldecott Honor

• Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni (1961)
• SWIMMY. Caldecott Honor Book. by Leo. LIONNI (1964)
• Frederick by Leo Lionni (1968)
• Hawk, I'm Your Brother by Byrd Baylor (1977)
• Have You Seen My Duckling? by Nancy Tafuri (1985)
• Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems (Caldecott Honor Book, BCCB Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award) by Joyce Sidman (2006)

Caldecott Medal

• A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry (1957)
• One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian (1972)
• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen (1988)

Christopher Award

• The sign of the beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Books for Young People, 1984)
• Can the whales be saved? : questions about the natural world and the threats to its survival answered by the Natural History Museum by Philip Whitfield (Books for Young People, 1990)

The Constance Lindsay Skinner Achievement Award

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (merit in the realm of books, Women's National Book Association)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

• Field Guide to the Birds: Eastern Land and Water Birds by Roger Tory Peterson

Duff Cooper Prize

• The peregrine by J. A. Baker (1967)

Garden State Book Award

• The Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive by Joanna Cole (Childrens Nonfiction, 1999)

A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book

• Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni (1961)
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (1961)
• One Fine Day by Nonny Hogrogian (1972)
• The Guinea Pig ABC (Brookline, Massachusetts) by Kate Duke (1984)
• The sign of the beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (1984)
• Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert (1992)
• Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems (Caldecott Honor Book, BCCB Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award) by Joyce Sidman (2005)

International and US Councils of Woman Citation

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Iowa Teen Award Nominee

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (1989-1990)

Iowa Teen Award Winner

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (1989-1990)

IPPY Finalist

• Restoring North America's birds : lessons from landscape ecology by Robert Askins (Environment/Ecology/Nature, 2001)

Isaak Walton League Annual Founders Award

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

John Burroughs Medal

• Lives of game animals: an account of those land animals in America, north of the Mexican border, which are considered "game," either because they have held the attention of sportsmen, or received the protection of law by Ernest Thompson Seton (1927)
• Oceanic birds of South America; a study of species of the related coasts and seas, including the American quadrant of Antarctica, based upon the Brewster-Sanford collection in the American Museum of Natural History by Robert Cushman Murphy (1938)
• Adventures in bird protection by Thomas Gilbert Pearson (1939)
• Birds over America by Roger Tory Peterson (1950)
• The Sea Around US by Rachel L. Carson (1952)
• A Sand County almanac. With other essays on conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold (1977)
• On the road with John James Audubon by Mary B. Durant (1981)
• Wintergreen : listening to the land's heart by Robert Michael Pyle (1987)
• The singing life of birds : the art and science of listening to birdsong by Donald E. Kroodsma (2006)

Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (1961)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

• Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson (Science and Technology, 1995)

Minnesota Book Awards

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen ( Winner, 1988)
• Tracks in the Wild by Betsy Bowen ( Younger Children Winner, 1994)
• Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant ( Picture Books - Illustrator, 1999)
• Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems (Caldecott Honor Book, BCCB Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award) by Joyce Sidman ( Children’s Picture Book, 2006)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Board's List

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (5)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Reader's List

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (61)

National Book Award

• The Sea Around US by Rachel L. Carson (Nonfiction, 1952)
• The blue whale by George L. Small (The Sciences, 1972)

National Book Award finalist

• The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson (Nonfiction, 1956)
• Autumn across America; a naturalist's record of a 20,000-mile journey through the North American autumn by Edwin Way Teale (Nonfiction, 1957)
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Nonfiction, 1963)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

• Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson (Biography/Autobiography, 1994)
• Bird of life, bird of death : a naturalist's journey through a land of political turmoil by Jonathan Evan Maslow (General Nonfiction, 1986)
• The diversity of life by Edward O. Wilson (General Nonfiction, 1992)

National Outdoor Book Award

• Lichens of North America by Irwin M. Brodo (Nature Guidebook, 2002)
• Caterpillars of Eastern North America : a guide to identification and natural history by David L. Wagner (Nature Guidebook, 2006)

New England Outdoor Writers Association Award for Distinguished Service

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

New York Times Best Books of the Year

• Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson (1994)

New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book

• She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head! by Kathryn Lasky (1995)

A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year

• SWIMMY. Caldecott Honor Book. by Leo. LIONNI

New York Times bestseller

• Sanctuary (Fiction, 2007)
• The Sea Around US by Rachel L. Carson (General, 1951)
• Autumn across America; a naturalist's record of a 20,000-mile journey through the North American autumn by Edwin Way Teale (General, 1956)
• That Quail, Robert by Stanger Margaret A (General, 1966)
• Brother Eagle, Sister Sky by Susan Jeffers (Nonfiction, 1992)
• Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Nonfiction, 2008)

Newbery Honor

• Audubon by Constance Rourke (1937)
• The sign of the beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (1984)
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (1988)

Newbery Medal

• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (1961)

Newsweek's Top 100 Books: The Meta-List

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (2009, No. 91)

North Carolina Childrens Book Award

• Verdi by Janell Cannon (Picture Books, 1999)

NY Academy of Science Award - Children's Science Book.

• The Snail's Spell (Picture Puffins) by Joanne Ryder (1983)

Pulitzer Prize

• Wandering through winter; a naturalist's record of a 20,000-mile journey through the North American winter by Edwin Way Teale (General Non-Fiction, 1966)

Pulitzer Prize finalist

• Living on the wind : across the hemisphere with migratory birds by Scott Weidensaul (General Non-Fiction, 2000)

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