Orbis Pictus Award - Gary Strong Curriculum Center - College of Education, Health and Human Sciences

NCTE Orbis Pictus Award

The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Orbis Pictus Award was established in 1989 for promoting and recognizing excellence in the writing of nonfiction for children. The name Orbis Pictus commemorates the work of Johannes Amos Comenius, Orbis Pictus-The World in Pictures (1957), considered to be the first book actually planned for children.

Award Winners at the Curriculum Center or Main Library

2017 - Some Writer! by Melissa Sweet
Call Number: 921 White
2014 - A Splash of Red by Jennifer Bryant; Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)
Call Number: 759.13 Bryant
2013 - Monsieur Marceau by Leda Schubert; Gérard Dubois (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC 792.3 Schubert
2012 - Balloons over Broadway by Melissa Sweet
Call Number: GSCC 791.5 Sweet
2011 - Ballet for Martha by Jan Greenberg; Sandra Jordan; Brian Floca (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC 792.8 Greenberg
2010 - The Secret World of Walter Anderson by Hester Bass; Walter Inglis Anderson; E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC 709.2 Bass
2009 - Amelia Earhart by Shelley Tanaka; David Craig (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC 629.13 Tanaka
2008 - M. L. K. Journey of a King by Tonya Bolden; Bob Adelman (Editor)
Call Number: GSCC 323.092 Bolden
2007 - Quest for the Tree Kangaroo by Nic Bishop (Photographer); Sy Montgomery
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ329.M66Q44 2006
2006 - Children of the Great Depression by Russell Freedman
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ207.F73C44 2005
2004 - An American Plague by Jim Murphy
Call Number: GSCC 614.5 MUR/MAIN LIBRARY PZ340.M875A44 2003
2003 - When Marian Sang by Pam Muñoz Ryan; Brian Selznick (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY Oversize PZ113.A53 R83 2002
2002 - Black Potatoes by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Call Number: GSCC 941.5081 Bartoletti Black
2001 - Hurry Freedom by Jerry Stanley; Simon Boughton (Editor)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ205.S73H87 2000
1999 - Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ197.A75S55 1998
1998 - An Extraordinary Life by Laurence Pringle; Bob Marstall (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ324.L45P75 1997
1997 - Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ103.D38S73 1996
1996 - The Great Fire by Jim Murphy
Call Number: GSCC 977.3 MUR/MAIN LIBRARY PZ210.I3M78 1995
1994 - Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ131.S74M87 1993
1992 - Flight by Robert Burleigh; Mike Wimmer (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC 629.13 BUR/MAIN LIBRARY PZ197.B87F55 1991
1991 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Russell Freedman
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ125.R66F74 1990
1990 - The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ103.M33F65 1989

Honor Books at the Curriculum Center or Main Library

2020 - 1919 the Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler
Call Number: 973.91 Sandler
2017 - Giant Squid by Candace Fleming; Eric Rohmann (Illustrator)
Call Number: 594 Fleming
2016 - Terrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Call Number: GSCC 614.5 Bartoletti Terrible
2016 - Funny Bones by Duncan Tonatiuh
Call Number: 921 Posada
2015 - The Right Word by Jen Bryant; Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)
Call Number: GSCC 921 Roget Right
2013 - Citizen Scientists by Loree Griffin Burns; Ellen Harasimowicz (Photographer)
Call Number: GSCC 590.723 Burns
2010 - Almost Astronauts by Tanya Lee Stone; Margaret A. Weitekamp (Foreword by)
Call Number: GSCC 629.450092 Stone Almost
2009 - We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ243.B35N45 2008
2008 - Spiders by Nic Bishop (Photographer)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ324.A75 B57 2007
2007 - Freedom Walkers by Russell Freedman
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ207.F73F74 2006
2007 - Something Out of Nothing by Carla Killough McClafferty
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ257.C87M33 2006
2007 - Team Moon by Catherine Thimmesh
Call Number: GSCC 629.45 Thimmesh Team
2006 - ER Vets: Life in an Animal Emergency Room by Donna M. Jackson
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ325.J32E7 2005
2006 - Genius by Marfe Ferguson Delano
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ257.E36D44 2005
2006 - Mosquito Bite by Alexandra Siy; Dennis Kunkel (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ324.I58S59 2005
2006 - Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti; Susan Campbell-Bartoletti
Call Number: GSCC 943.086 BAR/MAIN LIBRARY PZ143.G3B37 2005
2005 - Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ320.J46A27 2004
2005 - The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by Phillip Hoose
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ328.H66R32 2004
2005 - The Voice That Challenged a Nation by Russell Freedman
Call Number: GSCC 782.1 FRE/MAIN LIBRARY PZ113.A53F73 2004
2004 - In Defense of Liberty by Russell Freedman
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ200.F74I5 2003
2004 - Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer by Robert Byrd (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ103.L46B97 2003
2004 - The Man Who Made Time Travel by Kathryn Lasky; Kevin Hawkes (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ265.L37M36 2003
2003 - Confucius by Russell Freedman; Frederic Clement (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ125.C66F74 2002
2003 - The Emperor's Silent Army by Jane O'Connor
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ133.O36E57 2002
2003 - To Fly by Wendie C. Old; Robert Andrew Parker (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ357.W75O53 2002
2001 - America's Champion Swimmer by David A. Adler; Terry Widener (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ243.3.E34A3 2000
2000 - Clara Schumann by Susanna Reich
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ113.S38R45 1999
2000 - The Snake Scientist by Sy Montgomery; Nic Bishop (Photographer)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ327.M66S53 1999
2000 - The Top of the World by Steve Jenkins
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ243.M6J46 1999
1998 - A Drop of Water by Walter Wick (Photographer, Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ250.W53D76 1997
1997 - Full Steam Ahead by Rhoda Blumberg
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ430.B58F85 1996
1997 - The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman; Amos B. Bull (Photographer)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ196.O3F74 1996
1995 - Christmas in the Big House by Patricia C. McKissack; Fredrick L. McKissack; John Thompson (Illustrator)
Call Number: IMTC 975.03 McKissack/MAIN LIBRARY PZ204.M43C57 1994
1995 - Kids at Work by Russell Freedman; Lewis W. Hine (Photographer)
Call Number: GSCC 331.3 Freedman/MAIN LIBRARY HD6250.U3F67 1994
1994 - To the Top of the World by Jim Brandenburg; JoAnn B. Guernsey (Editor)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ329.B736T66 1993
1993 - Come Back Salmon by Molly Cone; Sidnee Wheelwright (Photographer)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ326.C66C66 1991
1992 - Now Is Your Time! by Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ215.A44M93 1991
1990 - The Great American Gold Rush by Rhoda Blumberg
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY F865.B6524 1989
1990 - The News about Dinosaurs by Patricia Lauber; Gregory S. Paul (Illustrator); Douglas Henderson (Illustrator); John Gurche (Illustrator)
Call Number: MAIN LIBRARY PZ295.L38N49 1989