1999 Orbis Pictus 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 1999 Orbis Pictus winning books in Language Arts, Volume 77, Number 5, May, 2000.  (PDF)
Winner
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True
Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
by Jennifer Armstrong
(Crown)
Honor Books
Black Whiteness:
Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic
by Robert Burleigh
illustrated by Walter Lyon Krudop
(Atheneum)
Fossil Feud: The Rivalry
of the First American
Dinosaur Hunters
by Thom Holmes
(Julian Messner)
Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
by Steve Jenkins
(Hougton Mifflin)
No Pretty Pictures:
A Child of War
by Anita Lobel
(Greenwillow)
Recommended Titles
Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I
by Jane Resh Thomas (Clarion)
Discovering the Inca Ice Maiden: My Adventures on Ampato
by Johan Reinhard (National Geographic)
Duke Ellington
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Hyperion)
Frontier Merchants: Lionel and Barron Jacobs and the Jewish Pioneers Who Settled the West
by Jerry Stanley (Crown)
Joan of Arc
by Diane Stanley (Morrow)
Light Shining Through the Mist: A Photobiography of Dian Fossey
by Tom L. Matthews (National Geographic)
Looking Back: A Book of Memories
by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life
by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
On the Home Front: Growing Up in Wartime England
by Ann Stalcup (Linnet)
Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie
by Andrea Warren (Morrow)
Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
by Elizabeth Partridge (Viking)
Safari
by Robert Bateman (Little, Brown)
Samuel Adams: The Father of American Independence
by Dennis Fradin (Clarion)
Snowflake Bentley
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrated by Mary Azarian (Houghton)
What's the Deal? Jefferson, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase
by Rhoda Blumberg (National Geographic)
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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