NCTE Awards and Honors

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.