1993 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

Children of the Dust Bowl:
The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
by Jerry Stanley
(Crown Publishers, Inc.)

Honor Books

Come Back, Salmon by Molly Cone (Sierra Club Books)	Talking with Artists by Pat Cummings (Bradbury Press)

Recommended Titles

A Twilight Struggle: The Life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
by Barbara Harrison and Daniel Terris (Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard Books)

The Amazing Potato: A Story in which the Incas, Conquistadors, Marie Antoinette, Thomas Jefferson, Wars, Famines, Immigrants, and French Fries All Play a Part
by Milton Meltzer (HarperCollins)

An Indian Winter
by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)

Antarctica: The Lost Unspoiled Continent
by Lawrence Pringle (Simon and Schuster)

Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare
by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema (Morrow)

The Great St. Lawrence Seaway
by Gail Gibbons (Morrow)

Hopscotch Around the World
by Mary d. Lankford, illustrations by Karen Milone (Morrow Junior Books)

The Long Road to Gettysburg
by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)

Surtsey: The Newest Place on Earth
by Kathryn Lasky, photographs by Christopher G. Knight
(Hyperion Books for Children)

The Tainos: The People Who Welcomed Columbus
by Francine Jacobs, illustrated by Patrick Collins (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Wings Along the Waterway
by Mary Barrett Brown (Orchard Books)

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