Bright Ideas
Webinar: Get to Know the 2022 Blueberry Awardees
March 20, 2023
The Natural Start Alliance partnered with the Evanston Public Library to bring you the best in children’s books about nature connection and environmental stewardship. The Blueberry Award is a relatively new literary award that honors books about nature — the first of its kind. The Award committee reviewed books from 2022, sharing the latest and greatest with our community!
If you want to learn more about how the Blueberry Award was founded, who is involved, and how books are evaluated, go back and watch our first webinar on the Blueberry here.
The webinar includes:
- An overview of the 2022 Blueberry Winner, Listen to the Language of the Trees.
- Booktalks on the younger selection of the Blueberry Honor and Blueberry Changemaker books.
- Librarians' ideas on how best to use these books!
Buy Blueberry Books at the Natural Start Bookshop!
Additional Resources:
- Betsy Bird’s 2022 Science and Nature Books for Kids
- Explore angler fish with the Monteray Bay Aquarium (extended learning for Agatha May and the Angler Fish)
- Fascinating Krill Facts (extended learning for Good Eating: the Short Life of Krill)
Videos from Blueberry Authors:
- Mika Song, Illustrator, Agatha May and the Angler Fish
- Tanya Kyi, Author, Our Green City
- Anna Humphrey, Author, Bee & Flea and the Compost Caper
Meet the Presenters:
Betsy is a School Library Journal Fuse#8 Blogger, the Evanston Public Library Collection Development Manager, and a published author most recently of Long Road to the Circus. Betsy makes the Blueberry Award possible by sharing the many ARC’s (Advanced Reader Copy) of books that publishers send her! She also supplies the prize, a Blueberry Announcement in School Library Journal’s Fuse #8 blog, the blog librarians read to decide what books to buy!
Martha is the founder of the Blueberry Awards. She is a Library Assistant who has specialized in reading the best nature books to share with local toddler, preschool, and elementary school teachers for years! She’s presented at Nature Play conferences, local NAEYC meetings, Nature Preschool teacher conferences, and more.
Bridget is a keen reader of nonfiction texts for both adults and kids. She keeps Evanston Public Library focused on the coolest books being published today! Bridget’s enthusiasm for great books is contagious.
