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: African Americans in Gold Rush California by Jerry Stanley (Crown)
Honor Books
 The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin by James Cross Giblin illustrated by Michael Dooling (Scholastic Press)
 America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle by David A. Adler illustrated by Terry Widener (Gulliver Books)

Michelangelo by Diane Stanley (HarperCollins)
 Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter by Alan B. Govenar illustrated by Shane W. Evans (Jump at the Sun)
Wild & Swampy by Jim Arnosky (HarperCollins)
Recommended Titles
Asteroid Impact by Douglas Henderson (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Author Talk: Conversations with Judy Blume, Bruce Brooks, Karen Cushman, Russell Freedman, Lee Bennett Hopkins, James Howe, Johanna Hurwitz, E. L. Konigsburg, Lois Lowry, Ann M. Martin, Nicholasa Mohr, Gary Paulsen, Jon Scieszka, Seymour Simon, and Laurence Yep by Leonard S. Marcus(Simon & Schuster)
Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews by Ellen Levine(Holiday House)
Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews by Ann Bausum and George Borup Andrews (National Geographic Society)
Feathered Dinosaurs by Christopher Sloan (National Geographic Society)
Frank O. Gehry: Outside In by Sandra Jordan and Jan Greenberg (DK Publishing)
A Handful of Dirt by Raymond Bial(Walker & Company)
Liberty by Lynn Curlee(Atheneum)
Nazi Germany: The Face of Tyranny by Ted Gottfried, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn (Twenty First Century Books, Inc.)
Norman Rockwell: Storyteller With a Brush by Beverly Gherman, illustrated by Norman Rockwell(Atheneum)
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne F. Rockwell, illustrated by Gregory Christie(Alfred A. Knopf)
Pick and Shovel Poet: The Journeys of Pascal D’Angelo by Jim Murphy(Clarion Books)
Voices of the Alamo by Sherry Garland, illustrated by Ronald Himler(Scholastic Press)
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!: A Very Improper Story by Shana Corey, illustrated by Chesley McLaren(Scholastic Press)
Related Information: Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award Overview
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