AHS - Press Releases July 23, 2007

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Three Books Receive 2007 Growing Good Kids - Excellence in Children's Literature Award

Alexandria, VA - July 23, 2007

Three children’s books received the 2007 “Growing Good Kids – Excellence in Children’s Literature Award” on July 21, 2007 at the American Horticultural Society’s National Children & Youth Garden Symposium held at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, Minnesota. This award honors engaging and inspiring plant-, garden- and ecology-themed children’s literature. This year’s winners, selected from books published in 2006, are:

A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Hutts Aston and illustrated by Sylvia Long (Chronicle Books)
Once Around the Sun by Bobbi Katz and illustrated by LeUyen Pham (Harcourt)
Josias, Hold the Book by Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren and illustrated by Nicole Tadgell (Boyds Mills Press)

“These three award winners represent the best of children’s gardening and nature books published last year and will help connect kids to plants and the natural world by inspiring curiosity and wonder,” says Randy Seagraves, national curriculum coordinator for the National Junior Master Gardener (JMG) program of Texas Cooperative Extension, part of the Texas A & M University System.

The JMG jointly developed the “Growing Good Kids” book award program with the American Horticultural Society, a non-profit educational organization based in Alexandria, Virginia. The award program debuted in 2005 with a list of 40 “Classic” children’s gardening and nature books published in the last century.

For more information about the “Growing Good Kids” book award program and for images of the winning book covers, visit http://www.jmgkids.us; or contact Randy Seagraves, national curriculum coordinator for JMG at (979) 845-8565 or seagraves@tamu.edu.
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The American Horticultural Society (AHS), founded in 1922, is an educational, non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that recognizes and promotes excellence in American horticulture. One of the oldest and most prestigious gardening organizations, AHS is dedicated to making America a nation of gardeners, a land of gardens. Its mission is to open the eyes of all Americans to the vital connection between people and plants, to inspire all Americans to become responsible caretakers of the Earth, to celebrate America’s diversity through the art and science of horticulture; and to lead this effort by sharing the Society’s unique national resources with all Americans.

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