April 1:
4:00 PM Robert Buchanan
"The Work of Polar Bears International" -- 103 Henson Hall, Salisbury
University
5:00 PM Young Author
Reception
-- Most Blessed Sacrament School. Winners of the Eastern
Shore Reading Council's Young Author Contest will be presented with
their awards.
Keynote Speaker -- Phillip Hoose
April 2:
1:00-1:45 David Wiesner – Caruthers Hall
Auditorium, Salisbury University
2:00-2:45 Phillip Hoose "The Race to Save the
Lord God Bird" – Caruthers Hall Auditorium
3:00-3:45 Panel on Environmental
Writing
4:45 Eastern Shore Reading
Council Banquet -- Worcester Room, GC,
Salisbury University
5:30 Community Event: Local
environmental organizations will have tables with information and
children's activities.
Salisbury University is pleased to co-sponsor the
Green Earth Book Awards, the
nation's first environmental stewardship book award.
For more information about the award please visit the
Newton
Marasco Foundation website
7:00 Green Earth Book Award
Reception Wicomico Room, GC
April 3:
10-11:45 Reception at Poplar Hill Mansion
1:15 -- at the
Wicomico Library Jean
Okimoto and
Adrian Fogelin followed by booksigning
1:15 -- at the Ward Museum O.R. Melling and
Cambria Gordon
followed by booksigning
Salisbury University is one of the
sponsors of the Hey Little Ant essay contest. Please visit
Phillip Hoose's
website for more information
David Wiesner has illustrated more than twenty
award-winning books for young readers. Three of his picturebooks, which
he both
writes and illustrates have won the
prestigious Caldecott Medal: Tuesday
in 1992, The
Three Pigs in 2002, and Flotsam
in 2007. Wiesner is only the second person in the Caldecott
award’s long history to
have won three times. Two of his other titles, Sector
7 and Free Fall,
are Caldecott Honor Books. His books have garnered numerous other
awards and honors making him one of the best known children's book
illustrators in the world.
Wiesner lives with his wife and their son and daughter
in the Philadelphia area.
Visit his publisher's website for "
The
Art of Visual Storytelling"
Phillip
Hoose is the widely-acclaimed author of books, essays,
stories, songs, and articles, including the MULTI-AWARD WINNING The Race to Save the
Lord God Bird, the National Book Award Finalist We Were There,
Too! Young People in US History and the Christopher Award-winning
manual for youth activism It's Our World
Too!
Hey, Little Ant co-authored with his daughter Hannah is a
favorite with many elementary school teachers. A
graduate of the Yale School
of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Hoose has been a staff member
of The Nature Conservancy since 1977. Through the American Birding
Association, he co-founded the Cuba Initiative, a fund to provide
materials such as binoculars and field guides and art supplies to bird
educators in Cuba.
A songwriter and performing
musician, Phillip Hoose is
a founding member of the Children's Music Network. He lives in
Portland, Maine.
Visit his
website
Okimoto is the recipient of the American Library Association Best Book
for Young Adults Award, the International Reading Assoication's
Reader's Choice Award, the IRA/CBC Young Adults' Choice Award, the
Parents' Choice Award, the Washington Governor's Award, the Maxwell
Medallion for Best Children's Book of the Year. Her picturebook Winston of Churchill,
One Bear's Battle Against Global Warming is the winner of this
year's GEBA for children's fiction.
Born in Ireland, OR Melling grew up in Toronto with her seven
sisters and two brothers. At eighteen, she hitch-hiked
across Canada and down through California, seeking adventure. A
year later, she was off to Malaysia and Borneo on a youth exchange
program. That set her motto for life, "to travel hopefully." During her
years at university, she was an ROUTP cadet (reserve officer
university training program), achieving the rank of Sublieutenant
(Naval Reserve). She has a B.A. in Philosophy and Celtic Studies, and
an M.A. Medieval Irish History. To date, her books have been translated
into German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Czech, and Slovenian. She
lives in a small town by the Irish Sea with her teenage daughter,
Findabhair, and her cat, Emma.
Cambria
Gordon
Cambria Gordon is the co-author with Laurie David of The Down to Earth Guide
to Global Warming. A former award-winning advertising
copywriter, she now pursues children's writing full time. She has
written the nonfiction book Fifty
Nifty Crafts to Make with Things Around the House and an episode
of Madeline, the award-winning animated television series, for the
Disney Channel. The Down to
Earth Guide to Global Warming is being published in nine
countries and is the GEBA winner in the nonfiction category.
Cambria Gordon is a member of the NRDC Leadership Council, serves
on the board of EcoPerks and lives with her husband and three
children in Pacific Palisades, California.
Adrian
Fogelin
Adrian Fogelin has written seven award winning novels for young readers
including Crossing Jordan, My Brother's Hero, The Real Question, and The Real Question. Her latest
novel The
Sorta Sisters was an honor receipient for the GEBA. In this
beautifully written story, two young tweens with a love of nature begin
a penpal friendship which helps them cope with the uncertainties in
their lifes.
Henry Cole is the author and illustrator
of numerous acclaimed books. He grew up in Virginia and studied
forestry at Virginia Tech. He was also an elementary school science
teacher for 18 years. He is the illustrator of
Katy Duck,
Oink,
Shiver Me Letters, and many other
children's books. Henry Cole's
On Meadowview Street
is one of the honor books for the Green Earth Book Award in the
children's fiction category.
Robert
Buchanan
Polar Bears International is dedicated to understanding and
communicating all points of view on issues affecting polar bears
throughout the world. A little over two decades ago Robert Buchanan saw
his first polar bear in the
wild and ever since that moment he has gone back each year to
experience
the incredible creatures that stole his heart. Robert was asked to join
PBI's Board of Directors in 2000 and was elected president a year
later. He also serves as the president of PBI-Canada. Robert's vision
is to help the world understand the importance of the Far North and to
empower individuals to have a sense of immediacy about how we take care
of this planet.
Participating organizations: SU Education Department, Newton
Marasco Foundation, Blackwell Library, Ward Museum,
Eastern Shore Reading Council, SU Biology Department, Eastern Shore
Regional Library.
For directions to Salisbury University
click here
For directions to the Ward Museum
click here
For directions to the Courtyard Marriott
click
here
(for group discount ask for Salisbury University group)
