2007 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 . . .

Read the article about the 2007 Orbis Pictus winning books in Language Arts, Volume 85, Number 2, November, 2007.   (PDF)

Winner

Quest for the Tree Kangaroo:
An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
by Sy Montgomery, photographs by Nic Bishop
(Houghton Mifflin) 

Honor Books

John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
by Kathryn Lasky, illustrated by Stan Fellows
(Candlewick Press)

Something Out of Nothing:
Marie Curie and Radium
by  Carla Killough McClafferty
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
by Catherine Thimmesh
(Houghton Mifflin)

Recommended Titles

An Egg is Quiet
by Diana Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long
(Chronicle Books)

Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg
on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
by Ann Bausum
(National Geographic Children's Books)

Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, and Dr. Paula Kahumbu
(Scholastic)

Onward: A Photobiography of African American
Polar Explorer Matthew Henson
by Delores Johnson
(National Geographic Children's Books)

Rescues
by Sandra Markle
(Millbrook Press)

Saving the Buffalo
by Albert Marrin
(Scholastic)

The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin
by Susan Goldman Rubin and Ela Wiessberger
(Holiday House)

Construction Zone
by Cheryl Willis Hudson, photographs by Richard Sobol
(Candlewick Press)

2000-Present Orbis Pictus Award Winners (PDF)

1990-2000 Orbis Pictus Award Winners (PDF)