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The Charlotte and Wilbur Award for Compassion for Animals
AWARD WINNERS!
The Charlotte and Wilbur Award for Compassion for Animals honors books for their dedication to promoting compassion and respect for animals in their readers.
ABOUT THE PICTURE BOOK
As the sun dawns in Canada, a flutter of monarch butterflies take flight, ready to begin their months-long journey to their ancestral home in Mexico. The migration will not be easy, but it is necessary for the next generation of monarchs to be born. Brought to life with illustrations as vivid as the monarch’s iconic orange and black hues, this story invites young readers to experience the monarch’s migration from the butterflies’ point of view as they search for food, huddle together through storms, and tirelessly fly south.
Parents and educators alike will find much to love about this poetically written book. The story touches on how climate change and deforestation are impacting monarchs, and kid-friendly back matter provides additional information about the butterflies, including their life cycle, anatomy, and migratory patterns, as well as several simple ways children can help monarch butterflies themselves.
ABOUT Katherine Pryor, Author
Katherine Pryor is a children's author and good food advocate. She made her picture book debut with “Sylvia’s Spinach”, which is now widely used to support nutrition education and school garden curriculum. Her second book, “Zora's Zucchini”, won a national 2016 Growing Good Kids Book Award. Her third book, “Bea's Bees”, was called “a necessary addition to elementary library shelves” by School Library Journal. Her first board book, “Hello, Garden!” won the 2022 Gold Medal IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award.
ABOUT Ellie Peterson, Illustrator
Ellie Peterson is the author and illustrator of multiple picture books, including HOW TO HUG A PUFFERFISH and SCHOOL IS WHEREVER I AM. Her work is inspired by 20 years as a classroom teacher and her experience growing up as a biracial army brat. You can find her making art in her backyard studio or exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest, where she lives. Learn more at elliepetersonbooks.com.
ABOUT THE MIDDLE-GRADE BOOK
Ring and Asia Wilde's wild life is anything but ordinary. Instead of attending school, they travel the world with their tutor and parents (scientists who work to protect endangered species). On their last adventure, they swung through the Amazon rainforest to save their mom from vile kidnappers–while defending the forest's population of golden lion tamarins.
Now they're in Baja, Mexico–the Sea of Cortez to be exact–searching for the endangered vaquita and finding danger and conspiracy instead.
Nestled between the Baja California Peninsula and mainland Mexico is the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. Famous oceanographer and marine conservationist Jacques-Yves Cousteau called this area “the world's aquarium” because of its immense diversity.
ABOUT Roland Smith, Author
Roland is the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty books for young people. Among his books are the I, Q series, Peak, Beneath, Above, Zach’s Lie, the Cryptid Hunters series, the Storm Runners series, and Elephant Run. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he spent over twenty years working with wildlife all over the world. In this capacity, he was a zookeeper, zoo curator, assistant zoo director, and research biologist. He was instrumental in reintroducing the red wolf back into the wild, and he was a consultant on the Yellowstone National Park gray wolf translocation. Roland and his wife, Marie, split their time between Bentonville, Arkansas, and their small farm near Portland, Oregon.
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