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Orbis Pictus Awards from NCTE, 2014-2010
- 1. Orbis Pictus 2010-2014 Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children National Council of Teachers of English
- 2. Τhe NCTE Orbis Pictus Award was established in 1989 for promoting and recognizing excellence in the writing of nonfiction for children. The name Orbis Pictus commemorates the work of Johannes Amos Comenius, Orbis Pictus—The World in Pictures (1657), considered to be the first book actually planned for children. From the NCTE website: http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus
- 3. For a complete list Of the Past Winners 2010 – Present Visit: http://www.ncte.org /awards/orbispictus These lists include many more recommended nonfiction titles beyond the award winners and honor books.
- 5. http://asplashofredbook.com/ Alfred Knopf http://www.jenbryant.com/books/inprint/bk_splashred.html Author Jen Bryant Illustrator Melissa Sweet
- 13. Roaring Brook Press http://deborahheiligman.com/books/the-boy-who-loved-math/ Deborah Heiligman Illustrator LeUyen Pham
- 21. Lee and Low Publishers Parrots Over Puerto Rico
- 22. Author Susan L. Roth Illustrator Cindy Trumbore
- 26. Candlewick Press Tanya Lee Stone http://www.tanyastone.com/
- 31. Recommended books: •Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden (Abrams) •Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty by Russell Freedman (Holiday House) •The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr Eccentric Genius by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan (Roaring Brook Press) •Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library by Barb Rosenstock, illus. by John O’Brien (Calkins Creek) •Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives by Elizabeth Rusch, photographs by Tom Uhlman (Houghton Mifflin Books) •Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives by Lola M. Schaefer, illus. by Christopher Silas Neal (Chronicle Books) •Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell by Tanya Lee Stone, illus. by Marjorie Priceman (Henry Holt) •Scaly, Spotted, Feathered, Frilled: How Do We Know What Dinosaurs Really Looked Like? by Catherine Thimmesh (Houghton Mifflin)
- 44. Cool Stuff For You! http://elizabethrusch.com/MyBooks/AllBooks/TheMightyMarsRovers/ TheMightyMarsRoversCoolStuff.aspx
- 46. Barbara Kerley http://www.barbarakerley.com/site/Those_Rebels,_John_and_Tom.html Scholastic Press
- 53. Recommended books: •A Black Hole is NOT a Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano (Charlesbridge) •Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass; The Story Behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman (Clarion) •The Amazing Harry Kellar; Great American Magician by Gail Jarrow (Calkins Creek) •Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport (Candlewick Press) •The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs; A Scientific Mystery by Sandra Markle (Millbrook Press) •Chuck Close: Face Book by Chuck Close (Abrams) •Hands Around the Library; Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books by Susan L. Roth and Karen Leggett Abouraya (Dial Books) •Life in the Ocean; The Story of Oceanopgrapher Sylvia Earle by Claire A. Nivola (Farrar Straus and Giroux)
- 67. Américas Book Award 2012 The Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States.
- 68. Ruth Thomson Random House “Through inmates’ own voices and artwork, Terezín explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps.”
- 71. http://www.theguardian.com/ childrens-books-site/2013/jan/ 27/terezin-story-holocaust-ruth- thomson
- 78. Recommended books: •Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution by Laurence Pringle. Illus. by Steve Jenkins (Boyds Mills Press) •Far From Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage by Sophie Webb (Houghton Mifflin) •For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by Peggy Thomas. Illus. by Laura Jacques (Calkins Creek) •Harry Houdini: The Legend of the World’s Greatest Escape Artist by Janice Weaver. Illus. by Chris Lane (Abrams) •Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson (Balzer + Bray Imprint of HarperCollins) •Inkblot by Margaret Peot (Boyds Mills Press) Me .. Jane by Patrick McDonnell (Little Brown & Co.) Thunder Birds: Nature’s Flying Predators by Jim Arnosky (Sterling)
- 79. Lee and Low Earth Day Idea Dr. Gordon Sato
- 81. Macmillan
- 90. Lt. Gail Halverson “The Candy Bomber” http://www.capmembers.com/media/cms/Un cle_Wiggly_Halvorsen_Story_LR_E5143D2530 0A3.pdf Read with the picture book: “Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot”
- 98. http://www.rebeccajohnsonbooks.com/books/journey-into-the-deep/ Rebecca L. Johnson Millbrook Press
- 108. Recommended books: •Black Elk’s Vision: A Lakota Story by S.D. Nelson (Abrams) •Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill (Little Brown & Co.) •The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Suzy) by Barbara Kerley (Scholastic) •For Good Measure by Ken Robbins (Roaring Brook Press) •Henry Aaron’s Dream by Matt Tavares (Candlewick Press) •Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery (Houghton Mifflin) •Polar Bears by Mark Newman (Henry Holt and Co.) •The Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Houghton Mifflin)
- 127. http://www.pamelasturner.com/the_frog_scientist_79242.htm Author Pamela S. Turner Smithsonian Publisher Dr. Tyrone Hayes, Frog Scientist
- 130. Lesson plans and other goodies... Discussion and Activity Guide Common Core Connections
- 140. Recommended books: •The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull (Knopf) •Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (Farrar Strauss and Giroux) •Eleanor, Quiet No More by Doreen Rappaport (Hyperion) •The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jew during the Holocaust by Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland Desaix (Holiday House) •Life in the Boreal Forest by Brenda Z. Guiberson (Henry Holt) •One Giant Leap by Robert Burleigh (Philomel Books) •Truce by Jim Murphy (Scholastic) •Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker (Carolrhoda Books)
- 141. Created by: Karen Hildebrand hildebka@gmail.com Contact me if you would like a list of the “hot” links for the resources listed for each book.