News – Alison Pearce Stevens https://apstevens.com Adventures in nature and science Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:59:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/apstevens.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/cropped-site-icon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 News – Alison Pearce Stevens https://apstevens.com 32 32 79253410 Bank Street Best Book! https://apstevens.com/bank-street-best-book/ Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:07:42 +0000 https://apstevens.com/?p=82587 Bank Street College of Education included Animal Climate Heroes in their list of the Best Children’s Books of the Year! The 2025 edition includes more than 600 titles chosen by the Children’s Book Committee as the best of the best published in 2024.

From Bank Street: In choosing books for the annual list, committee members consider literary quality and excellence of presentation as well as the potential emotional impact of the books on young readers. Other criteria include credibility of characterization and plot, authenticity of time and place, age suitability, positive treatment of ethnic and religious differences, and the absence of stereotypes.

Animal Climate Heroes in yellow text above four superhero-styled animals: whale, elephant, echidna, and sea otter. They are leaping out from planet Earth.
Children's Book Committee of Bank Street College of Education: The Best Children's Books of the Year 2025 Edition. Books published in 2024.
]]> 82587 Blueberry Honor! https://apstevens.com/blueberry-honor/ Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:52:49 +0000 https://apstevens.com/?p=77159

Salmon background with yellow Animal Climate Heroes! title above a great whale, forest elephant, echidna, and sea otter charging across Planet Earth. Alison Pearce Stevens, Illustrated by Jason Ford.

I am delighted to have Animal Climate Heroes selected as a Blueberry Honor book! Created by Evanston Public Library to recognize children’s books that foster a love of nature and the environment, the Blueberry (a blue-planet play on the Newbery Medal) is a huge honor, and I’m grateful for the recognition.

If you want to know more, you can check out Betsy Bird’s overview of the award ceremony here, see the full list of Blueberry Honor books here (be sure to click Show next 15 items at the bottom!), or check out some of the thank-you videos on YouTube.

]]> 77159 Books for a Better Earth https://apstevens.com/books-for-a-better-earth/ Tue, 28 Mar 2023 17:21:04 +0000 https://apstevens.com/?p=24205 I’m super excited to be one of the authors contributing to Holiday House’s Books for a Better Earth collection! There’s lots of information out there about how bad things are, environmentally speaking. But there isn’t much about what people can do–and are doing–to make things better. Every single one of us can make a difference, and Books for a Better Earth highlights people’s efforts in books that are full of hope and inspiration. The books themselves are printed on sustainably sourced paper and printed in a way that minimizes waste when the books are assembled.

Want to learn more about these phenomenal books? Publisher’s Weekly has a great overview. And you can learn more here:

 

]]> 24205 Nebraska Book Awards hat trick! https://apstevens.com/nebraska-book-awards-hat-trick/ Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:31:11 +0000 https://apstevens.com/?p=17433 I am so honored that Rhinos in Nebraska won THREE Nebraska Book Awards! The Nebraska Center for the Book and the Nebraska Library Commission give these awards to outstanding books by Nebraska authors, published by Nebraska publishers, or about the state. Of the 14 awards given out, Rhinos received three: Youth Book, Nonfiction: Natural History, and Illustration (congratulations to Matt Huynh!).

 

Two women, both wearing glasses, one with long, curly, brown hair and the other with short, gray hair, jointly hold framed certificates and three award plaques.
Accepting the awards from Pat Leach, former youth services librarian and library director at Lincoln City Libraries.

Cover of Rhinos in Nebraska with award winner sticker next to three Nebraska Book Award plaques

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