ALA Events – ASPCA Henry Bergh Award Presentation

Join ASPCA for a Cocktail Reception To Announce the Winners of The Ninth Annual ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Awards for Excellence in Humane Literature.  Monday, July 13th at the ALA Annual Conference Swissotel Downtown 323 E. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL 60601 St. Gallen Room, 5:30 -7:30pm

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will be honored with the ASPCA Roger Caras Achievement Award at the ceremony. Guest Appearance:  Meet Special Investigator Joe Pentangelo, of Animal Planet’s Animal Precinct. You can RSVP to education@aspca.org.  

Author Book Signings:
Beth Finke — Hanni and Beth: Safe & Sound
Jeanne Prevost – It’s Raining Cats and Cats!
Jan Zita Grover – Home for Dakota
Kirby Larson & Mary Nethery — Two Bobbies
Rosa Jordan — The Last Wild Place
Pam Kaster — Molly the Pony
Jim Arnosky — Wild Tracks! & Dolphins on the Sand

You can find out more by visiting ASPCA’s booth 3217 and their website www.aspca.org/bookaward 

This is always an amazing event and occurs right after the Exhibit Hall closes on Monday so you won’t have too many conflicts. You’ll still be able to get to the Printz Award reception at 8 p.m. (more about that later).

The ASPCA Henry Bergh 2008 Award Winners are:

Nonfiction Companion Animals
Winner, 2008 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award
Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival by Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery
Walker & Company (Check out SLJ’s A Fuse#8 review by Betsy Bird)

Winner, 2008 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Honor
How to Speak Dog! by Sarah Whitehead
Scholastic (Check out Louella Moreland’s review from the Lincoln Public Library, Lincoln, IL)

Nonfiction Environment and Ecology
Winner, 2008 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award
Wild Tracks! A Guide to Nature’s Footprints by Jim Arnosky
Sterling Publishing (Check out Jill Tullo’s The Well Read Child blog review)

Winner, 2008 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award
Molly the Pony: A True Story by Pam Kaster
Louisiana State University Press (Check out the author’s website and especially the publisher’s site)

Fiction Humane Heroes
Winner, 2008 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award
Dolphins on the Sand by Jim Arnosky
Putnam Juvenile (Highlighted on the Read That Again website – a father-daughter fav)

Fiction Companion Animals
Winner, 2008 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award
It’s Raining Cats and Cats! by Jeanne Prevost
Gryphon Press (Check out the publisher’s site and be sure to buy this!)

Winner, 2008 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Honor
A Home for Dakota by Jan Zita Grover
Gryphon Press (Loved the author highlight on Save America’s Pets site. This also won the 2009 KIND Children’s Book Award by the Humane Society)

Fiction Environment and Ecology
Winner, 2008 ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award
The Wolves Are Back by Jean Craighead
George Dutton Children’s Books (See SLJ March 2008)

Young Adult Award
Winner, 2008 ASPCA Young Adult Book Award
The Last Wild Place by Rosa Jordan
Peachtree (See the publisher’s site. Also an honor recipient for the 2009 Green Earth Book awards)

Nonfiction Humane Heroes