1992 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

Honor Books

Now Is Your Time! The African American Struggle for Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers
(HarperCollins)

Prairie Vision: The Life and Times of Solomon Butcher
by Pam Conrad (HarperCollins)

Recommended Titles

A Young Painter: The Life and Paintings of Wang Yani
by Zhensun and Low (Scholastic, Inc.)

Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
by Cynthia Rylant, illustrations by Barry Moser (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)

Batman: Exploring the World of Bats
by Laurence Pringle, photographs by Merlin Tuttle (Charles Scribner’s Sons)

Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt!
by Jean Fritz, illustrations by Mike Wimmer (G.P. Putnam)

Dawn to Dusk in the Galapagos
by Rita Goldman Gelman, photographs by Tui DeRoy (Little Brown)

The Discovery of the Americas
by Betsy and Giulio Maestro (Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard)

 Earthquakes
by Seymour Simon (Morrow Junior)

 N.C. Wyeth’s Pilgrims
by Robert SanSouci (Chronicle Books)

 The Painter’s Eye: Learning to Look at Contemporary American Art
by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan (Delacorte)

Pueblo Boy: Growing Up in Two Worlds
by Marcia Keegan (Cobblehill)

 Pueblo Storyteller
by Diana Hoyt-Goldsmith (Holiday)

The Remarkable Voyages of Captain Cook
by Rhoda Blumberg (Bradbury)

Summer of Fire: Yellowstone 1988
by Patricia Lauber (Orchard)

Voyager to the Planets
by Necia H. Apfel (Clarion)

The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
by Russell Freedman (Holiday)

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