Awards

Kristin's Wilderness – A Braided Trail, authored by Garrett Conover, and illustrated by Roderick MacIver and Tanya Thompson, is a winner of the 2006 Lupine Award. The  LUPINE AWARD is designed to honor a living author or illustrator who is a resident of Maine, or who has created a work whose focus is Maine, as shown through the work’s characterization, plot or setting. 

Connie Cushing, chairwoman of the Lupine Committee said, “I can’t say enough how muchKristin’s Wilderness touched us. While we look at many books each year, it is not often that one gets the sense as soon as it is taken from the box that it is something very special. Kristin’s Wilderness is the most remarkable book that I have read since being on the committee.”

For twelve years theIndependent Publisher Book Awards have been conducted annually to honor the year's best independently published titles. The "IPPY" Awards reward those who exhibit the courage, innovation, and creativity to bring about change in the world of publishing. Independent spirit and expertise comes from publishers of all sizes and budgets, and books are judged with that in mind.

Kristin's Wilderness also was awarded the Midwest Book Award in the Children and Young Adults Category. The Midwest Independent Publishers Association serves the upper-Midwest publishing community in a collaborative sharing of publishing, production, promotion, and marketing information.

Presented by Jenkins Group and Independent Publisher Online, The Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading.

Leave Only Ripples: A Canoe Country Sketchbook, authored and illustrated by Consie Powell of Ely, Minn, is a winner of the prestigious national award presented by the John Burroughs Association of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, N.Y.

In Leave Only Ripples, Consie Powell's journal notes, sketches and hand-colored woodcuts transport you through Canoe Country with intimate glimpses of the wildlife, the shorelines and the history.

The John Burroughs List of Nature Books for Young Readers, established in 1988, is named in honor of the Hudson river naturalist and essayist. A pioneer of nature study, John Burroughs (1837-1921) was one of America's most widely read authors. A hundred years ago, his nature essays for children were published in special school editions and caused nature study to blossom in classrooms all over America. In recognizing his efforts to awaken interest in young naturalists, the Association has selected books that present perceptive and artistic accounts of direct experiences in the world of nature. 

The John Burroughs Association gives the award to encourage writing in the Burroughs tradition. The Association also maintains sites associated with the famous naturalist.

Leave Only Ripples: A Canoe Country Sketchbook is also the winner of the 2006 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award for Children's Literature, given by the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute at Northland College.

A Wonderful Country: The Quetico-Superior Stories of Bill Magie,transcribed, edited and arranged by Dave Olesen, with illustrations by Bill Nelson, received Honorable Mention in the History Category at the 2005 Midwest Book Awards.