NCTE - Orbis Pictus Award Seal
This award commemorates the work of Johannes Amos Commenius, whose book, Orbis Pictus (World in Pictures), is historically considered to be the first work created exclusively for children. Given by the Orbis Pictus Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English, this award honors distinction in non-fiction for children.
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2023 Orbis Pictus Award Winner
Author: Nana Brew-Hammond
Grade Level: PreK - 2
Call Number: 535.6 B7587B
Description: "For centuries, blue powders and dyes were some of the most sought-after materials in the world. Ancient Afghan painters ground mass quantities of sapphire rocks to use for their paints, while snails were harvested in Eurasia for the tiny amounts of blue that their bodies would release. And then there was indigo, which was so valuable that American plantations grew it as a cash crop on the backs of African slaves. It wasn't until 1905, when Adolf von Baeyer created a chemical blue dye, that blue could be used for anything and everything--most notably that uniform of workers everywhere, blue jeans"--Amazon.
2023 Orbis Pictus Honorable Mention Titles
Hardcourt: stories from 75 years of the National Basketball Association
Author: Fred Bowen
Call Number: 796.323 B6754H
Fighting for YES!: the story of disability rights activist Judith Heumann
Author: Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Call Number: B H482C
Choosing Brave: how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
Author: Angela Joy
Call Number: B T466J
Seen and Unseen:
What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's photographs reveal about Japanese American incarceration
Author: Elizabeth Partridge
Call Number: 940.5317 P2757S
The Science of Light: things that shine, flash, and glow
Author: Margaret Peot
Call Number: 535 P3909S
Click on each book cover image to view the title in ECU's library catalog.
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