The John Burroughs Association Announces the Awardees!

JOHN BURROUGHS 2013 MEDAL
For Distinguished Natural History Book
Awarded to Thor Hanson,
Feathers,
New York, NY: Basic Books/Perseus Books Group (2011)
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JOHN BURROUGHS AWARD for an Outstanding Published Nature Essay
To be announced

Plus the 2011 additions to
THE RIVERBY AWARD LIST OF NATURE BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
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A Leaf Can Be, Laura Purdie Salas, author, and Violeta Dabija, illustrator, Lerner
Publishing Group/Millbrook Press, (2012).

Moonbird, Phillip Hoose, author, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/FSG, (2012).

Rachael Carson and Her Book That Changed the World, Laurie Lawlor, author, and Laura Beingessner, Illustrator, Holiday House, (2012).

Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed The Seas, Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm,
authors, Molly Bang, illustrator, Scholastic Inc./The Blue Sky Press, (2012).

Wild Horse Scientists, Kay Frydenborg, author, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2012).

For the list of past awardees click on the following links:

Medal Awards
Nature Essay Awards
Young Readers Awards