Since 2005, the Junior Master Gardener Program and the American Horticultural Society (AHS) have honored engaging, inspiring works of plant, garden and ecology-themed children’s literature through the annual “Growing Good Kids–Excellence in Children’s Literature Awards.”
The awards selection committee includes AHS staff members, Junior Master gardener specialists and coordinators, teachers, youth leaders, and kids. The committee’s goal is to recognize children’s books that are especially effective at promoting an understanding of, and appreciation for, gardening, nature, and the environment.
The 2017 winners of the growing good Kids Book awards are:
- Secrets of The Vegetable Garden, by Carron Brown, illustrated by Giordano Poloni;
- Because of an Acorn, by Lola M. Schaefer and Adam Schaefer, illustrated by Fran Preston-Gannon;
- Sleep Tight Farm, by Eugenie Doyle, illustrated by Becca Stadtlander;
- Good Trick, Walking Stick, by Sheri Mabry Bestor, illustrated by Jonny Lambert; and
- The Night Gardener, by Terry Fan and Eric Fan.
This year’s winners received their awards in July during the AHS’s national Children & Youth gardening Symposium in the greater Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, area.
To learn more about the growing good Kids awards and view previous winners, visit www.jmgkids.us/bookawards.
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