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NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children 2017

The 2017 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children went to Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White by Melissa Sweet. 5 books were Honor Books and 8 books were selected.

Winner

  1. Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White by Melissa Sweetsource (opens in a new tab)

Honor Books

  1. Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Animal Infographics by Steve Jenkinssource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Giant Squid by Candace Fleming and Eric Rohmannsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy and Elizabeth Baddeleysource (opens in a new tab)
  4. The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial by Susan E. Goodman and E. B. Lewissource (opens in a new tab)
  5. ¡Olinguito, de la A a la Z!: Descubriendo el bosque nublado / Olinguito, from A to Z: Unveiling the Cloud Forest by Lulu Delacresource (opens in a new tab)

Selections

  1. Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer by Diane Stanley and Jessie Hartlandsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay by Susan Hood and Sally Wern Comportsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Comics Confidential: Thirteen Graphic Novelists Talk Story, Craft, and Life Outside the Box by Leonard Marcussource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Dive!: World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific by Deborah Hopkinsonsource (opens in a new tab)
  5. How to Build a Museum: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture by Tonya Boldensource (opens in a new tab)
  6. Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue Macy and C. F. Paynesource (opens in a new tab)
  7. Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story by Caren Stelsonsource (opens in a new tab)
  8. Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness by Donna Janell Bowman and Daniel Mintersource (opens in a new tab)

About the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children

Winner, Honor Books and Recommended Books from NCTE's past-winner lists (PDFs for 2000-2010, 2010-2014, 2015-2021 and 2022-2026); this file covers 2006-2025. Year is the award year NCTE uses (books published the prior calendar year). Recommended Books are recorded at level Selection. Author field names the writers, then illustrators or photographers when different, as credited.

Organization: National Council of Teachers of English. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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