Orbis Pictus2010-2014

Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children

National Council of Teachers of English

Τhe 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 (1657), considered to be the first book actually planned for children.

From the NCTE website: http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus

For a complete listOf the Past Winners2010 – PresentVisit:http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus

These lists includemany more recommendednonfiction titles beyondthe award winners andhonor books.

http://asplashofredbook.com/Alfred Knopfhttp://www.jenbryant.com/books/inprint/bk_splashred.html

Author Jen BryantIllustrator Melissa Sweet

http://asplashofredbook.com/educators-librarians/

http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/bryantsweet/

Locomotive byBrian Floca

http://www.brianfloca.com/Locomotive.htmlAtheneum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ8Z_68VPXk

http://www.brianfloca.com/OnlineExtras.html

Roaring Brook Presshttp://deborahheiligman.com/books/the-boy-who-loved-math/

Deborah Heiligman

Illustrator LeUyen Pham

HarperCollins

Illustrated byMelissa Sweet

http://www.michellemarkel.com/books.html

https://todayinlaborhistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/

http://files.harpercollins.com/HCChildrens/OMM/Media/Brave%20GirlTG.pdf

TeachingGuide

Lee and Low Publishers

Parrots Over Puerto Rico

Author Susan L. RothIllustrator Cindy Trumbore

http://susanlroth.com/parrots-over-puerto-rico.htm

http://www.leeandlow.com/images/pdfs/Parrots_tg.pdf

Teacher’s Guide

http://www.leeandlow.com/p/popr_bt.mhtml

Candlewick Press

Tanya Lee Stone

http://www.tanyastone.com/

http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/bryantsweet/

http://www.candlewick.com/book_files/0763651176.btg.1.pdf

Teacher’sGuide

http://www.triplenickle.com/

http://www.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?tid=33034&a=1

Recommended books:

•Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty by Tonya Bolden (Abrams)

•Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Libertyby Russell Freedman (Holiday House)

•The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr Eccentric Genius by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan(Roaring Brook Press)

•Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library by Barb Rosenstock, illus. by John O’Brien (Calkins Creek)

•Eruption! Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives by Elizabeth Rusch, photographs byTom Uhlman (Houghton Mifflin Books)

•Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives by Lola M. Schaefer, illus. by ChristopherSilas Neal (Chronicle Books)

•Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell by Tanya Lee Stone,illus. by Marjorie Priceman (Henry Holt)

•Scaly, Spotted, Feathered, Frilled: How Do We Know What Dinosaurs Really Looked Like?by Catherine Thimmesh (Houghton Mifflin)

By Leda Schubert

http://www.ledaschubert.com/

Macmillan

http://www.authorsguild.net/members/ledaschubert/files/MarcelMarceauGuide.pdf

http://www.jefthemime.com/pdf/mime-study-guide.pdf

http://www.ledaschubert.com/monsieur_marceau__illustrated_by_gerard_dubois__september__2012__porter_roaring__114908.htm

http://loreeburns.com/citizen-scientists/

http://loreeburns.com/citizens-scientis/Teacher Resources

http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons/citizen-scientists-be-part-scientific-discovery-your-own-backyard/

http://www.citizensciencealliance.org/

Dial Press

http://www.robertbyrdart.com/index.html

Robert Byrd

http://www.hbook.com/2013/09/blogs/out-of-the-box/five-questions-robert-byrd/#_

http://elizabethrusch.com/MyBooks/AllBooks/TheMightyMarsRovers.aspx

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Cool Stuff For You!

http://elizabethrusch.com/MyBooks/AllBooks/TheMightyMarsRovers/TheMightyMarsRoversCoolStuff.aspx

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/mars-rovers-sci

Barbara Kerley

http://www.barbarakerley.com/site/Those_Rebels,_John_and_Tom.html

Scholastic Press

http://www.barbarakerley.com/site/Common_Core__Those_Rebels,_John_and_Tom.html

CommonCoreFor Teachers

http://www.cynthialevinson.com/publications/books-for-young-readers/

Peachtree Press

Cynthia Levinson

http://www.wevegotajob.com/

http://www.cynthialevinson.com/

Recommended books:

•A Black Hole is NOT a Hole by Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano (Charlesbridge)

•Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass; The Story Behind an American Friendship byRussell Freedman (Clarion)

•The Amazing Harry Kellar; Great American Magician by Gail Jarrow (Calkins Creek)

•Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust byDoreen Rappaport (Candlewick Press)

•The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs; A Scientific Mystery by Sandra Markle(Millbrook Press)

•Chuck Close: Face Book by Chuck Close (Abrams)

•Hands Around the Library; Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books by Susan L. Roth and KarenLeggett Abouraya (Dial Books)

•Life in the Ocean; The Story of Oceanopgrapher Sylvia Earle by Claire A. Nivola(Farrar Straus and Giroux)

Houghton Mifflin

Melissa Sweet

http://melissasweet.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/121.pdf

http://www.hmhbooks.com/kids/resources/BalloonsOverBroadway_ActivityKit.pdf

http://www.candacefleming.com/books/bk_amelia.html

Schwartz and Wade

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/teachers_guides/9780375841989.pdf

Educator’sGuide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ_WZ0NCSy0

http://www.haroldholzer.com/hh_4_books.htmlCalkins Creeks

Harold Holzer

http://www.monicabrown.net/

Henry Holt & Co.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt9V4ZycTRY

Américas Book Award 2012

The Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction(from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States.

Ruth Thomson

Random House

“Through inmates’ own voices and artwork, Terezín explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps.”

http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2013/jan/27/terezin-story-holocaust-ruth-thomson

http://themanzanarproject.com/

http://mangroveactionproject.org/

Recommended books:

•Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution by Laurence Pringle.Illus. by Steve Jenkins (Boyds Mills Press)

•Far From Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage by Sophie Webb (Houghton Mifflin)

•For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by Peggy Thomas. Illus. by Laura Jacques (Calkins Creek)

•Harry Houdini: The Legend of the World’s Greatest Escape Artist by Janice Weaver.Illus. by Chris Lane (Abrams)

•Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson(Balzer + Bray Imprint of HarperCollins)

•Inkblot by Margaret Peot (Boyds Mills Press)

Me .. Jane by Patrick McDonnell (Little Brown & Co.)

Thunder Birds: Nature’s Flying Predators by Jim Arnosky (Sterling)

Lee and Low

Earth Day Idea Dr. Gordon Sato

Macmillan

http://archive.hbook.com/newsletter/archive/2010/notes_aug10.html

http://amhistory.si.edu/ourstory/pdf/dance/dance_reading.pdf

http://www.brianfloca.com/BalletForMarthaReadingsAndLinks.pdf

http://www.brimner.com/Boyds Mills Press

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p01OqYannQE

http://www.michaelotunnell.com/

Lt. Gail Halverson “The Candy Bomber”

http://www.capmembers.com/media/cms/Uncle_Wiggly_Halvorsen_Story_LR_E5143D25300A3.pdf

Read with the picture book:“Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot”

http://www.michaelotunnell.com/candy_bomber.html

http://www.charlesbridge.com/client/client_pdfs/downloadables/CandyBomber_ActivityDiscussion_Guide.pdf

http://www.historynet.com/interview-with-gail-halvorsen-the-berlin-candy-bomber.htm

http://www.marcaronson.com/National Geographic

Marc Aronson

http://www.adlit.org/authors/Aronson/

http://www.rebeccajohnsonbooks.com/books/journey-into-the-deep/

Rebecca L. Johnson

Millbrook Press

https://www.lernerbooks.com/digitalassets/Assets/Title%20Assets/10175/9780761341482/Discussion%20Guide.pdf

DiscussionGuide

Slideshow: https://www.lernerbooks.com/digitalassets/Assets/Title%20Assets/10175/9780761341482/Photo%20Slideshow.pdf

Cheryl Bardoe

http://cherylbardoe.com/cherylbardoe/Home.html

Abrams

http://www.cherylbardoe.com/cherylbardoe/Educators.html

http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/mammoths/

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/about/traveling-exhibitions/mammoths-and-mastodons

Recommended books:

•Black Elk’s Vision: A Lakota Story by S.D. Nelson (Abrams)

•Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill (Little Brown & Co.)

•The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Suzy) by Barbara Kerley (Scholastic)

•For Good Measure by Ken Robbins (Roaring Brook Press)

•Henry Aaron’s Dream by Matt Tavares (Candlewick Press)

•Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery (Houghton Mifflin)

•Polar Bears by Mark Newman (Henry Holt and Co.)

•The Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Houghton Mifflin)

http://www.slj.com/2009/12/standards/curriculum-connections/creating-contour-drawings-and-frames/

LessonPlanBased onNationalStandardsFor Visual Art

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxmehXLO8Ag

Tanya Lee Stone

http://www.tanyastone.com/almost-astronauts.htmlCandlewick Press

http://www.tanyastone.com/assets/files/AA%20Reading%20Guide.pdf

Teacher’s GuideWith CurriculumStandardsincluded

Author bonus materials:http://www.tanyastone.com/assets/files/pdfs/Almost%20Astronauts%20Bonus%20Material.pdf

http://www.booktv.org/Program/10323/Almost+Astronauts+Thirteen+Women+Who+Dared+to+Dream.aspx

http://alicebmcginty.com/

http://www.illinoishomepage.net/story/d/story/darwin-encourages-children-to-explore-and-discover/18962/x67vUOm9o0CMs5xmLQSzrA

http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/Evolution-lesson-plans.html

http://www.pamelasturner.com/the_frog_scientist_79242.htm

Author Pamela S. TurnerSmithsonian Publisher

Dr. Tyrone Hayes, Frog Scientist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpp5OfGr2Xs

Lesson plans and other goodies...

Discussion andActivity Guide

Common CoreConnections

http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons/frog-scientist-1/

A scienceLesson#1

http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons/frog-scientist-2/

A scienceLesson#2

Walker/Bloomsbury Publisher

Sandra Markle

http://sandra-markle.blogspot.com/search?q=pandas

http://www.animalplanet.com/video-topics/wild-animals/national-zoo-giant-pandas-videos/meet-the-pandas.htm

Calkins Creek Publisherhttp://www.pegideitzshea.com/content.asp?contentid=70

http://nov88.edu.glogster.com/noah-webster-

Recommended books:

•The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull (Knopf)

•Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (Farrar Strauss and Giroux)

•Eleanor, Quiet No More by Doreen Rappaport (Hyperion)

•The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jew during the Holocaust by Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland Desaix (Holiday House)

•Life in the Boreal Forest by Brenda Z. Guiberson (Henry Holt)

•One Giant Leap by Robert Burleigh (Philomel Books)

•Truce by Jim Murphy (Scholastic)

•Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker (Carolrhoda Books)

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