Ranger Rick - Honors

Honors

Ranger Rick has received the “Golden Lamp Award for excellence in educational journalism”. Here are other awards the magazine has attained over the years:

"Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award Winner

2010

• Periodical of the Year for Children (Grades K-5) • Best Feature Story ("Nature Did It First," April 2009) • Best Visual Story ("Wild and Weird," Oct. 2009)) • Best Photograph (April 2009)

2009

• Best Design/Whole Publication, Oct. 2008 issue • Best Article Design (“Noisy Boys Band,” Sept. 2008) • Best Feature Article (“Noisy Boys Band,” Sept. 2008)

2008

• Best Visual Story (“Island of the Bats,” October 2007) • Best Photograph (“Fruit Eating Bat,” October 2007)

2007

• Best Magazine Illustration ("What's Lurking in Your Lawn?" Sept. 2006) • Best Visual Article ("Skin," Dec. 2006) • Best Feature Story ("The Scoop on Poop," March 2006) • Best Visual Story ("Hum, Hum Hummers," June 2006)

2006

• Best Visual Story ("Face to Face," May 2005) • Best How-To Feature ("Six Trix for Better Pix," June 2005) • Best Teacher's Guide (December 2005) • Best Informational/Educational Website (for http://www.nwf.org/Kids/Ranger-Rick.aspxwww.nwf.org/rangerrick )

2004

• Best Feature Article ("Meat-Eating Plants, " Nov. 2003)

2003

• Best Feature Article ("Open Wide, Look Inside, It's Alive!" Feb. 2002) • Best Illustration ("Open Wide, Look Inside, It's Alive!" Feb. 2002) • Best How-To Feature ("Good Pet, Bad Pet," June 2002) • Best Visual Story ("Wahoo, Kangaroo!" Feb. 2002)

2001

• Golden Lamp Award finalist • Winner for Best Visual Story ("All About Me," June 2000) Note: Before 2000 or so, the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) was known as EdPress.

1998

• EdPress Winner for Primates Special Issue (October 1997 issue)

1993

• EdPress Golden Lamp Honor Award

1992

• EdPress Distinguished Achievement Award

1988

• EdPress Golden Lamp Award for best overall magazine (October 1997 issue)

Parents' Choice Foundation

• Parents' Choice Foundation Silver Medal, 2010 • Parents' Choice Foundation Gold Medal, 2009 • Parent's Choice Foundation, Gold Medal, 2008 • Parents’ Choice Foundation, Award Winner, 2006, for NWF: Kids & Families website • Parents' Choice Foundation, Gold Medal, 2003 • Parents' Choice Foundation, Gold Medal, 1999 • Parents' Choice Foundation, Gold Medal, 1996

The Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Awards

2007

• Teachers' Choice Award for the Family

2006

• Teachers’ Choice Award for the Family (for Ranger Rick magazine and its Educator’s Guide)

Other Awards: • 2001 - Folio Editorial Excellence Award Silver Winner for Outstanding Editorial Work • 1996 - Society of National Association Publishers General Excellence Award • 1991 - National Magazine Award finalist for special issue on frogs"