ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award
The ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award was established to honor books that promote the humane ethic of compassion and respect for all living things.

2003

Non-Fiction Companion Animals:
Winner:  Working Like a Dog: The Story of Working Dogs Through History, by Gena K. Gorrell

Non-Fiction Environment and Ecology:
Winner:  Safari Journal, by Hudson Talbott
Honor Book:  Buffalo: With Selections from Native American Song-Poems, by Beverly Brodsky

Non-Fiction Humane Heroes:
Winner:  Freckles: The Mystery of the Little White Dog in the Desert, by Paul M. Howey
Honor Book:  Wild Horses: Black Hills Sanctuary, by Cris Peterson

Fiction Environment and Ecology:
Winner:  The Deliverance of Dancing Bears, by Elizabeth Stanley

Fiction Humane Heroes:
Winner:  Seldovia Sam and the Sea Otter Rescue, by Susan Woodward Springer
Honor Book:  In Flanders Fields, by Norman Jorgensen

Poetry:
Winner:  The World According to Dog:  Poems and Teen Voices, by Joyce Sidman
Honor Book:  Swan Song:  Poems of Extinction, by J. Patrick Lewis

Illustration:
Winner:  The Deliverance of Dancing Bears, by Elizabeth Stanley

2002

Non-Fiction Companion Animals:
Winners:
A Kid’s Best Friend by Maya Ajmera & Alex Fisher
Cherry Hill’s Horse Care Book for Kids, by Cherry Hill

Non-Fiction Environment and Ecology:
Winner:  Animal Talk: How Animals Communicate Through Sight, Sound and Smell, by Etta Kaner

Non-Fiction Humane Heroes:
Winner:  The Elephant Hospital, by Kathy Darling

Fiction Companion Animals:
Winners:
Jasper's Day, by Marjorie Blain Parker
StrayDog, by Kathe Koja

Fiction Environment and Ecology:
Winner:  Goose’s Story, by Cari Best

Fiction Humane Heroes:
Winners:
Little Flower, by Gloria Rand
Monkey for Sale, by Sanna Stanley

Poetry:
Winner:  Turtle Saver, by Laurie Parker

2001

Non-Fiction Companion Animals:
Winner:  Gold Rush Dogs, by Claire Rudolf Murphy & Jane G. Haigh
Honor Book:  AnimalWays Horses, by Rebecca Stefoff

Non-Fiction Environment and Ecology:
Winner:  Interrupted Journey, by Kathryn Lasky

Non-Fiction Humane Heroes:
Winner:  The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours, by Jane Goodall
Honor Book:  Pets to the Rescue: Brave Norman - A True Story, by Andrew Clements

Fiction Companion Animals:
Winner:  One Unhappy Horse, by C.S. Adler
Honor Book:  "Let's Get a Pup!" Said Kate, by Bob Graham

Fiction Environment and Ecology:
Honor Book:  Jubela, by Cristina Kessler
Honor Book:  Bears Barge In, by Joni Sensel

Fiction Humane Heroes:
Winner:  Saving Lilly, by Peg Kehret

Poetry:
Honor Book:  Leap into Poetry: More ABC's of Poetry, by Avis Harley

2000

Non-Fiction Companion Animals:
Winner:  Go Home: The True Story of James the Cat, by Libby Phillips Meggs

Non-Fiction Environment and Ecology:
Winner:  The Orphan Seal, by Fran Hodgkins
Honor Book:  The Everything Kids Nature Book, by Kathiann M. Kowalski

Non-Fiction Humane Heroes:
Winner:  John Muir: My Life With Nature, by Joseph Cornell and Christopher Canyon

Fiction Companion Animals:
Winner:  Star in the Storm, by Joan H. Harlow

Fiction Environment and Ecology:
Honor Book:  The Spirit of the Masai Man, by Laura Berkeley

Fiction Humane Heroes:
Winner:  Fight for Life: Wild at Heart Book #1, by Laurie Halse Anderson

Poetry:
Winner:  Each Living Thing, by Joanne Ryder
Honor Book:  Its About Dogs, by Tony Johnson

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