2009 Environment Award for Children's Literature

This World Environment Day, the Wilderness Society is pleased to announce that True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet and Tuart Dwellers are the joint winners of the 2009 Environment Award for Children’s Literature.

True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet by Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin (published by ABC Books) features 100 simple solutions to the environmental challenges facing kids today.

True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet by Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin (published by ABC Books) features 100 simple solutions to the environmental challenges facing kids today. The Wilderness Society commended the fun and easy ways the book shows kids how to make a difference to our environment such as planting an organic garden and calculating a family's/ school's carbon footprint.

Tuart Dwellers by Jan Ramage, with gorgeous illustrations by Ellen Hickman, was published by the WA Department of Environment and Conservation. This thoughtful pictorial celebrates the diversity, colour and ingenuity of the natural world. Young readers will enjoy tales about how a Crab Spider goes shopping and a Jewel Beetle becomes a seedpod. Tuart Dwellers was also short listed for the Children's Book Council of Australia - Eve Pownall Award and listed as an "Honour Book" in the Picture Book of the year Notable Books category.

Both True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet and Tuart Dwellers promote environmental values and sense of caring and responsibility for the environment.

Tuart Dwellers by Jan Ramage, with illustrations by Ellen Hickman, celebrates the diversity, colour and ingenuity of the natural world. Young readers will enjoy tales about how a Crab Spider goes shopping and a Jewel Beetle becomes a seedpod.

Winners

True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet
by Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin
ABC Books

Tuart Dwellers
by Jan Ramage. Illustrations Ellen Hickman
Published by the Department of Environment and Conservation

Shortlisted

Picture Books

Nyuntu Ninti (What You Should Know)
by Bob Randall and Melanie Hogan
ABC Books

Cat on the Island
by Gary Crew. Illustrations Gillian Warden & Liz Kemp
HarperCollins Publishers Australia

Non Fiction

The Big Picture Book of Environments
by John Long
Allen & Unwin

Varanus the Gardening Goanna
By Pauline Reilly. Illustrations Kayelene Traynor
Bristlebird Books

Amazing Facts About Australian Mammals
by Queensland Museum and Steve Parish
Steve Parish Publishing

Amazing Facts About Australian Native Plants
by Cathy Hope and Steve Parish
Steve Parish Publishing

Eco-Warrior
by Skye Bortoli
ABC Books

Climate Change
by Angela Crocombe (Environment Australia series)
Echidna Books

Water Supply
by Angela Crocombe (Environment Australia series)
Echidna Books

POW! Meet the Renewables
by Caren Trafford. Illustrations Charlotte Lance
Etram Publishing

Fiction

Chelonia Green, Champion of Turtles
by Christobel Mattingley
Allen & Unwin

The Dog that Dumped on My Doona
by Barry Jonsberg
Allen & Unwin

And for Parents

Small Fry Outdoors: Inspiration for Being Outdoors with Kids
by Susie Cameron, Katrina Crook and Caroline Webster
ABC Books