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National
Outdoor Book Award Winners In the News
Note to readers, authors
and media representatives: We'd like to hear when National Outdoor
Book Award winners are featured in the media or on the internet.
If you see something--or if you are planning to feature a book in your
publication or web page--drop us an e-mail.
The Associated Press (AP) Western Wire Service distributed
a story about the National Outdoor Book Awards. Their intention is to follow up with yearly
information on the winners.
CNN Headline News ran the titles of some of the 2003 National Outdoor Book Award winners on the crawler across the bottom of the screen.
Illinois Wesleyan University Library
has established a special "honors" reading room with a distinctive
collection of the books. The books selected for the collection come
from the winners of eleven book award programs including the National Outdoor
Book Awards.
The ESPN Website
featured
NOBA winners in the centerpiece location on their web site. The ESPN
article entitled "Read any good outdoor books lately?" highlighted several
books--and included cover scans and a list of all winners.
Outdoor Retailer,
a major periodical for the outdoor trade, ran a detailed story on the award
program shortly after the awards were announced this year.
A recent mention of National Outdoor Book Award winners
came from an unlikely corner. Vogue
Magazine contacted NOBA for an article
they prepared on women outdoor adventure writers.
As a part of our public education program, we have begun working with retailers
and libraries to showcase National Outdoor Book Award (NOBA) winners.
To assist in these efforts, sometime in the future we hope to develop and
distribute free NOBA display kits.
The early results have been very promising. One of NOBA committee
members, Susanne Dubrouillet, has been working with Barnes and Noble in
the midwest and reports: "Since the books have been displayed,
Barnes and Noble cannot keep enough of the award winners in stock! They
have thanked us for sharing our list with them and will be very willing
to help us any time in the future."
The Library Journal,
one of the major journals of professional librarians, is now listing NOBA
winners.
Each year, all books entered in the National Outdoor Book Awards are displayed
at the International Conference on Outdoor
Recreation and Education (ICORE). ICORE is the most
important conference for American and Canadian educators and professionals
working for schools, universities, and other non-profit outdoor education
programs. Over the last couple of years, the NOBA display has become
one of the highlights of the conference. Since all the entries are
displayed--not just the winners--teachers, instructors and professors use
the annual display to keep themselves informed about new books and recent
work in the field.
GORP (Great
Outdoor Recreation Pages), one of the oldest and best known of Internet
outdoor sites is now providing a direct link to the winners of the National
Outdoor Books. NOBA is one of two book award programs listed on the
opening page of their book site.
We're delighted that more and more websites are linking to the National
Outdoor Book Awards website. An abbreviated list include J.M. Lore's
extensive Literature-Awards.com;
Overbook,
a site which specializes in literary and genre fiction information; U.S.
Department of the Interior (Reference Source List); Outoor
Nature Hut; Thoreau Society
and Walden.org;
Boy
Scouts of America; Links for
Book Lovers (Boston Athenaeum);
Iowa Outdoors;
Learning Treasures;
Adventure Sports; Outdoor-resources.com;
Reality
News; Adventure-Billboard.com; Roger
Greenaway's Online Guide to Resources for Dynamic Learning;
Student's
Home Page;
Award
Web;
Bookzone
and others. NOBA is also
linked from a variety of on-line colleges, and university
and public libraries.
The Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education,
an organization comprised of outdoor educators from colleges, universities,
military programs and other non-profit programs, is now running a regular
column in their quarterly newsletter featuring reviews of National Outdoor
Book Award winners.
A special thanks to Angie Hoke who runs the popular Book
Group List website. Angie's site serves an important
literary function on the Internet, helping readers find good reading material
from the mountain of books published each year. Included among her
recommended reading lists are NOBA winners.
Outfitter Magazine known for
its in depth reporting on the outdoor industry has been covering the National
Outdoor Book Awards for the last four years. Their coverage includes
reviews and cover photographs.
Among the many media sources which feature National
Outdoor Book Award winners, we'd like to recognize the Outdoor
Network for their early and continuing
support of the awards program.
NOBA winning books, cover scans, and reviews are now listed on both Borders,
and Barnes and Noble Internet
websites. And the American Hiking Society
includes a page on their website which includes scans and reviews of National
Outdoor Book Award winners.
Among the many newspapers that cover the winners
of the National Outdoor Book Awards, we particularly want to recognized
the Portland Press Herald of
Portland, Maine and the Idaho Statesman
of Boise, Idaho. Both papers have run pre-Christmas full-page specials
on the winners and included color photographs of book covers.
Backpacker Magazine
featured Don Gayton's Landscapes
of the Interior. Gayton's work was among four books that
reviewer Chris Jensen suggested for the well-read backpacker. Jensen
wrote that Landscapes, the winner of the literature category of
the National Outdoor Book Awards, was a collection of "thought provoking
essays . . . probing the relationship between humans and their natural
surroundings." The three other books recommended by Jensen were Encounters
with an Archdruid by John McPhee, Stickeen by John Muir, and
The
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