Blogged about this last year for the 2008 awards but have decided it needs a little more permanent place on my blog and in my time spent reading. Thus here are the awards for 2009... For more information please see the National Outdoor Book Awards' Website (http://www.noba-web.org). They also have a small snippet on each book and previous year's awards.

History Biography Category
Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America. By Douglas Brinkley.

Outdoor Literature Category
Halfway to Heaven. By Mark Obmascik.
Rowboat in a Hurricane: My Amazing Journey Across a Changing Ocean. By Julie Angus. (Honorable Mention)

Design & Artistic Merit Category:
Lars Jonsson's Birds. Illustrations by Lars Jonsson.

Classic Category
Kayak: The New Frontier. By William Nealy.
Appalachian Odyssey: Walking the Trail from Georgia to Maine. By Steve Sherman and Julia Older.

Children's Category
Whistling Wings. By Laura Goering.
Operation Redwood. By S. Terrell French.(Honorable Mention)

Nature and Environmnet Category
Our Living Earth. By Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
Sand: The Never Ending Story. By Michael Welland. (Honorable Mention)

Natural History Literature Category
Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys. By Rob Dunn.

Nature Guidebook Category
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America. By Roger Tory Peterson. Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston. ISBN 9780618966141
Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West. By Dennis Paulson. (Honorable Mention)

Outdoor Adventure Guidebook Category
Guide to the Green and Yampa Rivers in Dinosaur National Monument. By Duwain Whitis and Barbara Vinson.
The Guide to Baja Sea Kayaking. By Dave Eckardt. (Honorable Mention)

Instructional Category
Girl on the Rocks: A Woman's Guide to Climbing with Strength, Grace and Courage. By Katie Brown. Photos by Ben Moon.