We are
pleased to announce that Following
Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary
Friendship is a double silver medal winner in the 2012 Nautilus Book
Awards.
The Nautilus Book Award “recognizes books and audio books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living, and positive social change, while at the same time they stimulate the ‘imagination’ and offer the reader ‘new possibilities’ for a better life and a better world.”
Following Atticus received a silver medal for Animals/Nature and for Memoir/Personal Journey.
In past years Nautilus Book Awards have gone to such notables as His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Deepak Chopra, M.D.; Barbara Kingsolver; Marianne Williamson; Thich Nhat Hanh; Eckart Tolle; Rhonda Byrne; Joel Osteen; Andrew Weil, M.D.; Gary Zukov; Mariel Hemingway; and Judy Collins.
The Nautilus website states: “We look for distinguished literary and heartfelt contributions to spiritual growth, conscious living, high-level wellness, green values, responsible leadership, and positive social change as well as to the worlds of art, creativity and inspirational reading for children, teens, and young adults.”
We are proud and honored to be a double winner and happy for our agent, Brian DeFiore; our editor, Cassie Jones Morgan; and for our publisher, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. And we weren’t the only books published by HarperCollins that won Nautilus Book Awards this year. Here’s the entire list of HarperCollins winners:
SILVER
The Nautilus Book Award “recognizes books and audio books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living, and positive social change, while at the same time they stimulate the ‘imagination’ and offer the reader ‘new possibilities’ for a better life and a better world.”
Following Atticus received a silver medal for Animals/Nature and for Memoir/Personal Journey.
In past years Nautilus Book Awards have gone to such notables as His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Deepak Chopra, M.D.; Barbara Kingsolver; Marianne Williamson; Thich Nhat Hanh; Eckart Tolle; Rhonda Byrne; Joel Osteen; Andrew Weil, M.D.; Gary Zukov; Mariel Hemingway; and Judy Collins.
The Nautilus website states: “We look for distinguished literary and heartfelt contributions to spiritual growth, conscious living, high-level wellness, green values, responsible leadership, and positive social change as well as to the worlds of art, creativity and inspirational reading for children, teens, and young adults.”
We are proud and honored to be a double winner and happy for our agent, Brian DeFiore; our editor, Cassie Jones Morgan; and for our publisher, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. And we weren’t the only books published by HarperCollins that won Nautilus Book Awards this year. Here’s the entire list of HarperCollins winners:
SILVER
The Quiet World by Douglas Brinkley - Ecology / Environment
Love Wins by Rob Bell -
Religion / Spirituality - Western Traditions
Wabi Sabi Love – by Ariel Ford – Relationships
An Alter in the World –by Barbara Brown Taylor – Religion/Spirituality
– Western Traditions (unacknowledged winner from 2011)
DOUBLE SILVER
Following Atticus – by Tom Ryan – Animals/Nature and
Memoir/Personal Journey (William Morrow)
GOLD
God is not a Christian by Bishop Desmond Tutu – Religion/Spirituality – Western Traditions
If you wish to learn more about the Nautilus Book Awards and to see how the winners are chosen click on this link and it will take you to their website.
God is not a Christian by Bishop Desmond Tutu – Religion/Spirituality – Western Traditions
If you wish to learn more about the Nautilus Book Awards and to see how the winners are chosen click on this link and it will take you to their website.
I am only a quarter of the way through your book and I am already sensing this is unlike anything else I have read before. Congratulations on the awards :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to a MOST deserving pair! Again, thank you Tom and Atti for sharing a most wonderous friendship!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to both of you, Tom and Atticus!
ReplyDeleteThat is really great news.
Congratulations. Now even more people will find y'all and share your magic. Paige, your selfless courage to give up a special little soul when you were in need yourself has brought pleasure and wonder to so many- I'm thrilled wider recognition of the consequences of your generosity is now being achieved. Faith and love so wonderfully illustrated. Super news. X
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the awards! I love the picture.
ReplyDeleteSo deserving.....:)
ReplyDeletejust simply congratulations and celebrations......well earned and deserved.
ReplyDeleteKudos Tom! Well deserved!
ReplyDeleteIt's already been said many times, nonetheless, I too would like to offer congratulations to you Tom!
ReplyDeleteJohn
I just finished Following Atticus and I have to tell you I loved it. Made me laugh and made me cry (more than a few times) and I read all in 1 day! Congratulations to both of you.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations from the heart!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the awards!
ReplyDeleteNubbin wiggles,
Oskar
Congrats on the awards. So deserved. I loved the book and as soon as I get it back from my boyfriend I'm going to read again.
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