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Tamara Tunie, Elmo and Kevin Clash at the Quill Book Awards.

The Quill Book Awards were a "consumer-driven awards created to inspire reading while promoting literacy," which were awarded from 2005 to 2007. Supported by NBC Universal Television Stations, Borders, Barnes & Noble, and the American Booksellers Association, among others, the awards were dissolved in 2008.

Kevin Clash and Elmo appeared at the awards on October 11, 2005 in New York City, where It's Not Easy Being Green won the "Health/Self Improvement" award for 2006.

Past Recipients

• Maya Angelou, Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem, 2006
• Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, 2006 and The Assault on Reason, 2007
• Holly Robinson Peete, Get Your Own Damn Beer, I'm Watching the Game! A Woman's Guide to Loving Pro Football, 2006
• Rachael Ray, Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats: A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners, 2006 and Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals: Eat Healthy Without Going to Extremes, 2005
• J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
• Shel Silverstein, Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook, 2006
• Jon Stewart and the Writers of The Daily Show, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, 2006