The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) included TRACKING TRASH on its list of recommended children’s nonfiction for 2007. Hooray! Thank you NCTE.
For the nonfiction lovers out there, here is a rundown of all the NCTE Recommendations:
Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children:
M.L.K.: JOURNEY OF A KING
by Tonya Bolden
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Orbis Pictus Honor Books:
BLACK AND WHITE AIRMEN: THEIR TRUE HISTORY
by John Fleischman
Houghton Mifflin
HELEN KELLER: HER LIFE IN PICTURES
by George Sullivan
Scholastic
MUCKRAKERS
by Ann Bausum
National Geographic
SPIDERS
By Nic Bishop
Scholastic
VENOM
by Marilyn Singer
Darby Creek Publishing
Recommended Books:
3-D ABC: A SCULPTURAL ALPHABET
by Bob Razcka
Millbrook Press
ANIMALS IN THE HOUSE: A HISTORY OF PETS AND PEOPLE
by Sheila Keenan
Scholastic
CLARABELLE: MAKING MILK AND SO MUCH MORE
by Cris Peterson
Boyds Mills Press
LIVING COLOR
by Steve Jenkins
Houghton Mifflin
THE SNOW BABY: THE ARCTIC CHILDHOOD OF ADMIRAL ROBERT E. PEARY’S DARING DAUGHER
by Katherine Kirkpatrick
Holiday House
TRACKING TRASH: FLOTSAM, JETSAM, AND THE SCIENCE OF OCEAN MOTION
by Loree Griffin Burns
Houghton Mifflin
THE WALL: GROWING UP BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
by Peter Sis
Farrar Straus Giroux
You can find the award press release and an explanation of Orbis Pictus (isn’t it a curious name?) at the NCTE website.