Awards
Nelson Publishing & Marketing is proud to announce our books that have received awards
1. Have You Filled a Bucket Today? Winner of nine awards
- Mom’s Choice Award: 2007 Best Children’s book
- Writer’s Digest Book Award: 2007 Best Children’s Picture Book
- DIY Book Festival: 2007 Best Children’s Picture Book
- Books and Authors.net 2007 Best children’s Picture Book
- Best You Can Be Foundation: 2007 Top 10 Children’s Books
- London Book Festival: 2007 Honorable Mention
- Nautilus Book Awards: 2008 Silver Medal
- 2008 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award
- Purple Dragonfly Book Awards: 2011 First Place in Educational/Instructional category
2. Fill a Bucket
- Mom’s Choice Award: 2009, Developing Social Skills
- Best You Can Be Foundation 2008: Top Ten Best Children’s Books
3. Oh No, Ah Yes! Winner of Mom’s Choice Silver Award 2010 Developing Social Skills
4. Dadsongs: Remembering a Loved One’s Melody
- Winner of Mom’s Choice Silver Award 2010 Growing up/Personal growth
- 2010 USA Book News Finalist: Death& Dying
5. Divorced Together for the Sake of the Children
- Winner of Mom’s Choice Silver Award 2010, Family Life
- 2010 USA Book News Finalist: Parenting/Family: Divorce
6. Engineering the ABCs
- Winner of Independent Publisher Book Awards 2010
- 2010 USA Book News Finalist: Children’s Non-Fiction Picture Book
7. Running Home: USA Book News Award Finalist 2009
8. Production Algebra: Winner of USA Book News Award Winner 2009
9. Bursting with Joy
- Winner of Mom’s Choice Award 2010
- 2010 USA Book News Finalist: Self Help/Relationship
10. What if You Could Skip the Cancer? winner of USA Book News 2009: Health: Pyschology/Mental Health
11. Lost Treasure of Finistere: Winner of Moonbeams Book Awards 2008, Juvenile Fiction/Early Reader/1st chapter books
12. Managing Thought
- Axiom Business Book Awards: Bronze Medal
- USA Book News 2008: Business and Motivational Category
- 2009 Eric Hoffer Winner Small Press
13. Managing Thought (audio) USA Book News Awards Finalist in the Audio Book Self-help/Motivational category
14. The Heidelberg Project: A Street of Dreams: 2009 Finalist in Eric Hoffer Award
15. Myrtle the Hurdler and Her Pink and Purple Polka-Dotted Girdle
- Honorable Mention, 2009 Nashville Book Festival
- Honorable Mention, 2010 London Book Festival
16. Thirty Minutes: Winner of the Phoenix Award from Haven (center for abused women)
17. Poetic Camera
- Honorable Mention in 2009 Writer’s Digest 17th Annual International Self- Published Book Awards, Non-fiction
- 2010 USA Book News Finalist: Photography: Nature
18. Bartholomew’s Gift
- 2010 Moonbeams Award for best illustrations
- 2010 USA Book News Finalist Children’s Picture Book: Hardcover with Audio
- 2010 USA Book News Finalist in Children’s Best Cover Design
- 2010 Mom’s Choice Award: Gold in Religious and Spirituality
19. Read to Me Daddy, My First Football Book: 2010 USA Book News Finalist, Children’s Education
20. The One and Only Bernadette P. McMullen: 2010 USA Book News Finalist, Children’s Fiction
21. Hank the Tank Engine:
- 2010 USA Book News Finalist, Children’s Non-Fiction Picture Book
- 2011 International Book Awards: Winner Children’s Picture Book: Softcover Non-Fiction category (2011)
22. Opening Doors, Opening Lives: 2010 USA Book News Finalist Education PreK-12
23. Growing Up with a Bucket Full of Happiness
- Honorable Mention: Young Adult/Teenage category, 2010 New England Book Festival
- Honorable Mention: Teenage category, 2010 London Book Festival
- 2010 DIY Book Festival, Honorable Mention: Young Adult
- 2011 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement: Best Book in the Category of Children’s Interest (2011)
- 2011 Mom’s Choice Awards: Gold – Juvenile Level 2 Books
- 2011 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards: Grand Prize – Children’s Books
- 2011 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards: First Place in Charity/Making a Difference category
- 2011 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards: First Place in School Issues category
- 2010 Los Angeles Book Festival Honorable Mention – Young Adult category
- 2011 Young Voices Foundation Awards: Gold Award – Juvenile/YA Nonfiction
- 2011 USA Book News Awards: Finalist – Children’s Mind/Body/Spirit
24. Tommy Starts Something Big: Giving Cuddles with Kindness
- 2011 Eric Hoffer Awards: Honorable Mention – Children’s Category
- 2011 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards: Silver Medal – Books with Merchandise
25. Does This Make Me Beautiful?: 2011 Gold – Growing Up/Personal Growth
26. I Can Dance, Too !: Mom’s Choice Award: 2011 Gold – Children’s Picture Book
27. What Color is Your Heart?: Mom’s Choice Awards 2011 – Gold – Children’s Picture Book
28. Liam’s Luck and Finnegan’s Fortune: Mom’s Choice Awards 2011 – Silver – Fantasy, Myths, & Legends
29. My Guy in the Sky: 2011 USA Book News Awards Finalist in Children’s Religious category
30. A Heart Torn, A Soul Mended: A Bereaved Parent’s Search for Harmony:
- 2011 USA Book News Awards Finalist in Health: Addiction & Recovery
- 2011 USA Book News Awards Finalist in Health: Death & Dying