1994 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 . . .

Winner

Across America on an Emigrant Train
by Jim Murphy
(Clarion Books)

Honor Books

Making Sense: Animal Perception and Communication by Bruce Brooks (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.)

To the Top of the World: Adventures with Arctic Wolves by Jim Brandenburg (Walker & Company)

Recommended Titles

Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary
by Ruud van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven (Viking)

Be Seated: A Book about Chairs
by James Cross Giblin (HarperCollins)

 Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of Hidden Childhood During World War II
by Nelly S. Toll (Dial Books)

 Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
by Russell Freedman (Clarion)

 The Great Migration: An American Story
by Jacob Lawrence (HarperCollins)

 Lincoln: In His Own Words
by Milton Meltzer, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn (Harcourt Brace)

 Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom
by Virginia Hamilton, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Knopf)

 Shadows of the Night: The Hidden World of the Little Brown Bat
by Barbara Bash (Sierra Club Books for Children)

 Seven Candles for Kwanzaa
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Dial Books)

 The Way West: Journal of a Pioneer Woman
by Amelia Stuart Knight, adapted with introduction by Lillian Schlissel
illustrated by Michael McCurdy (Simon and Schuster)

 Whaling Days
by Carol Carrick (Clarion Books) 

2000-Present Orbis Pictus Award Winners (PDF)

1990-2000 Orbis Pictus Award Winners (PDF)