1997 Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award Winners
NCTE, through the Committee on the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, annually promots and recognizes excellence in the writing of nonfiction for children by selecting an outstanding book, up to five honor books and a list of recommended books. 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. More . . .
Read the article about the 1997 Orbis Pictus winning books in Language Arts, Volume 74, Number 7, November, 1997.  (PDF)
Winner  Leonardo da Vinci
by Diane Stanley
(Morrow Junior Books)
Honor Books
Full Steam Ahead:
The Race to Build a
Transcontinental Railroad
by Rhoda Blumberg
(National Geographic Society)
The Life and Death
of Crazy Horse
by Russell Freedman
(Holiday House)
One World, Many Religions:
The Way We Worship
by Mary Pope Osborne
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Recommended Titles
The Abracadabra Kid
by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
A Desert Scrapbook
by Virginia Wright-Frierson (Simon & Schuster)
A Strange and Distant Shore
by Brent Ashabranner (Cobblehill)
Dia's Story Cloth
by Cha Dia
(Lee & Low/Denver Museum of Natural History)
Free to Dream
by Audrey Osofsky (Lothrop)
Growing Up in Coal Country
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Houghton)
Hurricanes
by Patricia Lauber (Scholastic)
John Steinbeck
by Catherine Reef (Clarion)
Mandela
by Floyd Cooper (Philomel)
Nearer Nature
by Jim Arnosky (Lothrop)
Starry Messenger
by Peter Sis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
We Have Conquered Pain
by Dennis Brindell Fradin (McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
Who Were the Founding Fathers?
by Steven Jaffe (Holt)
With Needle and Thread
by Raymond Bial (Houghton)
Related Information:
Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award Overview
2000-Present Orbis Pictus Award Winners (PDF)
1990-2000 Orbis Pictus Award Winners (PDF)
Orbis Pictus Seal Information
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