1991 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
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by Russell Freedman
(Clarion Books)
Honor Books
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Arctic Memories
by Normee Ekoomiak
(Henry Holt) |
Seeing Earth from Space
by Patricia Luber
(Orchard Books)
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Recommended Titles
Christopher Columbus
by Nancy Smiler Levinson (Lodestar/Dutton)
The Clover and the Bee
by Anne Ophelia Dowden (Crowell)
Columbus and the World Around Him
by Milton Meltzer (Franklin Watts)
Dinosaur Dig
by Kathryn Lasky, photographs by Christopher G. Knight (Morrow)
Giraffes
by Helen Roney Sattler, illustrations by Christopher Santoro
(Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard)
Good Queen Bess
by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema (Four Winds)
The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System
by Joanna Cole, illustrations by Bruce Degan (Scholastic)
The Many Lives of Benjamin Franklin
by Mary Pope Osborne (Dial)
Mom Can’t See Me
by Sally Hobart Alexander, photographs by George Ancona (Macmillain)
My Hiroshima
by Junko Morimoto (Viking)
Oceans
by Seymour Simon (Morrow)
The Oregon Trail
by Leonard Everett Fisher (Holiday House)
The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone
by James Cross Giblin (Crowell)
Totem Pole
by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith, photographs by Lawrence Migdale (Holiday House)
Wolves
by R.D. Lawrence (Sierra Club/Little Brown)
Wood-Song
by Gary Paulsen (Bradbury)
Related Information:
Orbis Pictus Nonfiction Award Overview
2000-Present Orbis Pictus Award Winners  (PDF)
1990-2000 Orbis Pictus Award Winners (PDF)
Orbis Pictus Seal Information
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