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2001 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 2001 Orbis Pictus winning books in Language Arts, Volume 79, Number 2, November, 2001.   (PDF)

2001 Printable Winner Sheet    (PDF)


Winner

Hurry Freedom
Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California

by Jerry Stanley
(Crown)   

 

 


Honor Books
  
The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin
The Amazing Life
of Benjamin Franklin

by James Cross Giblin
illustrated by
Michael Dooling
(Scholastic Press) 
 


America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle
America's Champion Swimmer:
Gertrude Ederle
by David A. Adler
illustrated by Terry Widener
(Gulliver Books)

  Michelangelo

Michelangelo
by Diane Stanley
(HarperCollins) 
 


Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter
Osceola: Memories of a
Sharecropper’s Daughter
by Alan B. Govenar
illustrated by
Shane W. Evans
(Jump at the Sun)

  
Wild and SwampyWild & Swampy

by Jim Arnosky
(HarperCollins)

 

 

 


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