2000 Orbis Pictus Award Winners
NCTE, through the Committee on the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, annually promotes 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 2000 Orbis Pictus winning books in Language Arts, Volume 78, Number 2, November, 2000.  (PDF)
Winner 
Through My Eyes
by Ruby Bridges, Margo Lundell
(Scholastic Press)
The Ruby Bridges Foundation
Honor Books
At Her Majesty's Request:
An African Princess
in Victorian England
by Walter Dean Myers
(Scholastic Press)
Clara Schumann:
Piano Virtuoso
by Susanna Reich
(Clarion Books)
Mapping the World
by Sylvia A. Johnson
(Atheneum)
The Snake Scientist
by Sy Montgomery
illustrated by Nic Bishop
(Houghton Mifflin)
The Top of the World:
Climbing Mount Everest
by Steve Jenkins
(Houghton Mifflin)
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)
Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World
by James Haskins, Kathleen Benson, illustrated by Floyd Cooper
(Lothrop Lee & Shepard)
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)
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)
William Shakespeare and the Globe
by Aliki (HarperCollins Juvenile Books)
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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