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The NCTE Orbis Pictus Award For Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
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All items prefixed with an asterisk (*) are held by James G. Gee Library, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2001 Orbis Pictus Winner
*Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California by Jerry Stanley. (Crown Publishing) [On order]
2001 Honor Books
* America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle by David A. Adler,
illustrated by Terry Widener. (Gulliver Books) [Juv. Bio. Ed287a]
* Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin, The by James Cross Giblin,
illustrated by Michael Dooling. (Scholastic) [Juv. Bio. F85g]
* Michelangelo by Diane Stanley. (HarperCollins Juvenile Books) [Juv.
Bio. M582s]
* Wild and Swampy: Exploring with Jim Arnosky by Jim Arnosky.
(HarperCollins Juvenile Books) [on order]
* Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter by Osceola Mays and Alan Govenar, illustrated by Shane W. Evans. (Jump at the Sun)[Juv. Bio. M4552]
Recommended Books
* Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne Rockwell,illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. (Alfred A. Knopf)
[Juv. Bio. T777r]
Nazi Germany: The Face of Tyranny
Voices of the Alamo
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!
Norman Rockwell: Storyteller with a Brush
Liberty
* Asteroid Impact by Douglas Henderson. (Dial Books for YoungReaders) [Juv. 567.9 H383a]
Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews
Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews
* Frank O. Gehry: Outside In by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan.(DK Ink) [Juv. 720 G829f]
* Feathered Dinosaurs by Christopher Sloan. (National Geographic Society) [Juv. 567.9 Sl52f]
Author Talk: Conversations with Judy Blume, Bruce Brooks, Karen Cushman, Russell Freedman, Lee Bennett Hopkins, James Howe,
Johanna Hurwitz, E. L. Konigsburg, Lois Lowry, Ann M. Martin, Nicholasa Mohr, Gary Paulsen, Jon Scieszka, Seymour Simon, and Laurence Yep
A Handful of Dirt
2000 Orbis Pictus Winner
*Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges, Margo Lundell. (Scholastic Press)[Juv. Bio.B764]
2000 Honor Books
*At Her Majesty’s Request: An African Princess in Victorian England by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Press)[Juv. Bio. B643m]
*Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso by Susanna Reich (Clarion Books)[Juv. Bio. Sch86r]
*Mapping the World by Sylvia A. Johnson (Atheneum)[On Order]
*The Snake Scientist by Sy Montgomery. Illustrated by Nic Bishop (Houghton Mifflin)[Juv. 597.96 M767s]
*The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest by Steve Jenkins(Houghton Mifflin) [Juv. 796.52 J418t]
Recommended Titles
About Reptiles: A Guide for Children by Cathryn P. Sill. Illustrated by John Sill (Peachtree Publishers)
*Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion by Russell Freedman (Clarioin Books)[Juv. Bio. Za13f]
*Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World by James Haskins, Kathleen Benson. Illustrated by Floyd Cooper(Lothrop Lee & Shepard)[Juv. 382 H273b]
Building the Book Cathedral by David MacAulay (Houghton Mifflin)
A Child’s Book of Art: Discover Great Paintings by Lucy Micklethwait (Dorling Kindersley)
Einstein: Visionary Scientist by John B. Severance (Clarion Books)
Fire in Their Eyes: Wildfires and the People Who Fight Them
By Karen Magnuson Beil (Harcourt Brace)
In Search of the Spirit: The Living National Treasures of Japan by Sheila Hamanaka, Ayano Ohmis (Morrow Junior)
*Kids on Strike! By Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Houghton Mifflin) [Juv. 331.892 B285k]
The Mystery of the Hieroglyphics: The Story of the Rosetta Stone and the Race to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphics by Carol Donoughue (Oxford University Press Children’s Books)
A Nest of Dinosaurs: The Story of the Oviraptor by Mark Norell, Lowell Dingus. Illustrated by Mike Ellison (Doubleday)
Rushmore by Lynn Curlee (Scholastic)
*Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina by Maria Tallchief, Rosemary Wells (Contributor). Illustrated by Gary Kelley (Viking Press)[Juv. Bio. T144]
*William Shakespeare and the Globe by Aliki (Harpercollins
Juvenile Books)[Juv. 792 Al44w]
1999 Orbis Pictus Winner
*Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Schackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong (Crown)
[Yth. 919.8 Ar 57s]
1999 Honor Books
*Black Whiteness: Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic by Robert Burleigh. Illustrated by Walter Lyon Krudop (Antheneum)
[Juv. Bio. B9967b]
Fossil Fued: The Rivalry of the First American Dinosaur Hunters
By Thom Holmes (Messner)
*Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest by Steve Jenkins (Houghton)
[On Order]
* No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel (Greenwillow)
[Juv. Bio. L783]
1998 Orbis Pictus Winner
*An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterfly by Laurence
Pringle. Paintings by Bob Marstall (Orchard Books)
[Juv. 595.78 P936ex]
1998 Honor Books
*A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder by Walter Wick.
(Scholastic)[Juv. 546 W632d]
*A Tree is Growing by Arthur Dorros. Illustrated by S.D. Schindler
(Scholastic)[On Order]
* Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero by James Cross Giblin
(Clarion) [Yth. Bio. L64fz]
* Kennedy Assassinated! The World Mourns: A Reporter’s Story
by Wilborn Hampton (Candlewick) [Juv. 364.1 H189k]
* Digger: The Tragic Fate of the California Indians from the Missions
to the Gold Rush by Jerry Stanley (Crown) [On Order]
1997 Orbis Pictus Winner
*Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley. (Morrow)[Juv. Bio. L553s
1997 Honor Books
* Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad by
Rhoda Blumberg. (National Geographic Society) [On Order]
* The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman. (Holiday
House) [Yth. Bio. C859f]
* One World, Many Religions: The Ways We Worship (Knopf)[On Order]
1996 Orbis Pictus Winner
* The Great Fire by Jim Murphy. (Scholastic) [Juv. 977.3 M954g]
1996 Honor Books
* Dolphin Man: Exploring the World of Dolphins Laurence Pringle,photos by Randall S. Wells.(Atheneum) [On Order]
* Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II
by Penny Colman (Crown) [Yth. 331.4 C71r]
1995 Orbis Pictus Winner
*Safari Beneath the Sea: The Wonder World of the North Pacific Coast by Diane
Swanson. (Sierra) [On Order]
1995 Honor Books
Wildlife Rescue : The Work of Dr. Kathleen Ramsay by Jennifer Owings
Dewey. (Boyds Mills)
*Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade against Child Labor by
Russell Freedman. (Clarion) [Yth. 331.3 F875k]
*Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters by Patricia C.
McKissack and Frederick L. McKissack. (Scholastic)
[Juv. 975 M217c]
1994 Orbis Pictus Winner
Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy. (Clarion)
1994 Honor Books
*To the Top of the World: Adventures with Arctic Wolves by Jim
Brandenburg. (Walker) [On Order]
Making Sense: Animal Perception and Communication by Bruce
Brooks. (Farrar)
1993 Orbis Pictus Winner
* Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
by Jerry Stanley. (Crown) [Yth. 371.96 St25c]
1993 Honor Books
* Talking to Artists by Pat Cummings. (Bradbury) [Juv. 741.6 T144]
* Come Back, Salmon by Molly Cone. (Sierra) [On Order]
1992 Orbis Pictus Winner
* Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindbergh by Robert Burleigh. (Philomel)
[Juv. 629.13 B924f]
1992 Honor Books
* Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom by
Walter Dean Myers. (HarperCollins) [On Order]
Prairie Vision: Life and Times of Solomon Butcher by Pam Conrad.
(HarperCollins)
1991 Orbis Pictus Winner
* Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Russell Freedman. (Clarion) [Yth. Bio. R672f]
1991 Honor Books
* Seeing Earth from Space by Patricia Lauber. (Orchard) [Yth. 525 L361]
* Arctic Memories by Normee Ekoomiak. (H. Holt) [On Order]
1990 Orbis Pictus Winner
* The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz. (Putman) [Juv. Bio. M263f]
1990 Honor Books
* The Great American Gold Rush by Rhoda Blumberg. ( Bradbury)
[Juv. 979.4 B625g]
* The News about Dinosaurs by Patricia Lauber. (Bradbury)
[Juv. 567.9 L361n]
This page compiled by Marsha Keenan Last update March 2002