Author record · 2018 to 2020

Barry Wittenstein: Awards and Best-of Lists

Barry Wittenstein has won 1 award, the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children (2020) for A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation, with 7 year-end list picks in our archive.

Also credited with Jerry Pinkney

Every recognition

Year is the award or list year, not the publication year.
YearBookSourceResultTranslator
2020A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a NationNCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children source (opens in a new tab)Winner · Nonfiction for Children
2019A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired A NationChicago Public Library Best of the Best source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Best Informational Books for Younger Readers
2019A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a NationBooklist Editors' Choice source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Books for Youth: Nonfiction, Middle Readers
2019A Place To Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a NationSchool Library Journal Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Nonfiction
2019A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a NationHorn Book Fanfare source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Nonfiction
2019A Place to LandKirkus Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Picture Books
2019A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a NationPublishers Weekly Best Books source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Picture Books
2018The Boo-Boos That Changed the WorldKirkus Best Books of the Year source (opens in a new tab)Selection · Picture Books

Books

  1. A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation7 sources · 2019 to 2020
  2. The Boo-Boos That Changed the World1 source · 2018