Wish List 1
Taken from the Orbis Pictus Award List – Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Includes Winners, Honor Books, and Recommended Books
(NAD approved)
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[Winner] M.L.K.: Journey of a Kingby Tonya Bolden (Abrams Books for Children)
[Honor Book]
Black and White Airmen: Their True History
by John Fleischman (Houghton Mifflin)
Spiders
by Nic Bishop (Scholastic)
Helen Killer: Her Life in Pictures
by George Sullivan (Scholastic)
Muckrakers
by Ann Bausum (National Geographic)
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)
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion
by Loree G. Burns (Houghton Mifflin
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
by Peter Sis (Farrar Straus Giroux)
2007
[Winner] Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guineaby Sy Montgomery, Photos by Nic Bishop (Houghton Mifflin)
[Honor Books]
Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas,
by Cheryl Bardoe, illustrated by Jos. A. Smith (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)
John Muir: America’s First Environmentalist
by Kathryn Lasky, illustrated by Stan Fellows (Candlewick Press)
Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium
by Carla Killough McClafferty (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
[Recommended Books]
An Egg is Quiet
by Diana Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long (Chronicle Books)
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
by Ann Bausum (National Geographic Children's Books)
Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, and Dr. Paula Kahumbu (Scholastic)
Onward: A Photobiography of African-American Polar Explorer Matthew Henson
by Delores Johnson (National Geographic Children's Books)
Rescues
by Sandra Markle (Millbrook Press)
Saving the Buffalo
by Albert Marrin (Scholastic)
The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin
by Susan Goldman Rubin and Ela Wiessberger (Holiday House)
Construction Zone
by Cheryl Willis Hudson, photographs by Richard Sobol (Candlewick Press)
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2006
[Winner] Children of the Great Depressionby Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)
[Honor Books]
ER Vets: Life in an Animal Emergency Room
by Donna Jackson (Houghton Mifflin)
Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students
by Suzanne Jurmain (Houghton Mifflin)
Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein
by Marfe Ferguson Delano (National Geographic)
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic)
Mosquito Bite
by Alexandra Siy and Dennis Kunkel (Charlesbridge Publishing)
[Recommended Books]
Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii
by James M. Deem (Houghton Mifflin)
Built to Last: Building America’s Amazing Bridges, Dams, Tunnels, and Skyscrapers
by George Sullivan (Scholastic)
Chameleon, Chameleon
by Joy Cowley and Nic Bishop (Scholastic)
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America
by Karen Blumenthal (Atheneum)
Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl
by Tonya Bolden (Harry N. Abrams)
Mummies: The Newest, Coolest, & Creepiest from Around the World
by Shelley Tanaka (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Wild Dogs Past and Present
by Kelly Milner Halls (Darby Creek Publishing)
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2005
[Winner] York’s Adventures with Lewis and Clark: An African-American’s Part in the Great Expeditionby Rhoda Blumberg (HarperCollins)
[Honor Books]
Actual Size
by Steve Jenkins (Houghton Mifflin)
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird
by Phillip Hoose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Secrets of the Sphinx
by James Cross Giblin illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline (Scholastic)
Seurat and La Grande Jatte: Connecting the Dots
by Robert Burleigh (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
The Voice That Challenged A Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)
[Recommended Books]
Albino Animals
by Kelly Milner Halls (Darby Creek Publishing)
A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement from 1954-1968
by Diane McWhorter (Scholastic)
Bread Comes to Life: A Garden of Wheat and a Loaf to Eat
by George Levenson, illustrated by Shmuel Thaler (Tricycle Press)
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
by Andrea Warren (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides
by Rosalyn Schanzer (National Geographic)
Looking for Seabirds: Journal from an Alaskan Voyage
by Sophie Webb (Houghton Mifflin)
Roman Army: The Legendary Solders Who Created an Empire
by Dyan Blacklock, illustrated by David Kennett (Walker & Company)
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote
by Ann Bausum (National Geographic)
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2004
[Winner] An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)[Honor Books]
Empire State Building: When New York Reached for the Skies
by Elizabeth Mann, illustrated by Alan Witschonke (Mikaya Press)
In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America’s Bill of Rights
by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)
The Man Who Made Time Travel by Kathryn Lasky, illustrated
by Kevin Hawkes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924
by Deborah Hopkinson (Orchard Books)
[Recommended Books]
Capital
by Lynn Curlee (Atheneum)
The Darling Nellie Bly: America's Star Reporter
by Bonnie Christensen (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case
by Chris Crowe Phyllis Fogelman Books)
Jack: The Early Years of John F. Kennedy
by Ilene Cooper (Dutton Children's Books)
The Library of Alexandria
by Kelly Trumble, illustrated by Robina MacIntyre Mars (Clarion Books)
The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice
by Wendy Pfeffer, illustrated by Jesse Reisch (Dutton Children's Books)
The White House: An Illustrated History
by Catherine O'Neill Grace (Scholastic)
The Wright Sister: Katharine Wright and Her Famous Brothers
by Richard Maurer (Millbrook Press)
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2003
[Honor Books]Emperor's Silent Army: Terracotta Warriors of Ancient China
by Jane O’Connor (Viking Children’s Books)
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
by John Fleischman (Houghton Mifflin)
Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side
by Raymond Bial (Houghton Mifflin)
To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers
by Wendie C. Old, illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker (Clarion Books)
[Recommended Books]
Ansel Adams: America’s Photographer
by Beverly Gherman (Little, Brown, and Company)
The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail
by Debbie Miller, illustrated by Jon Van Zyle (Walker & Company)
Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam
by Diane Stanley (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence
by Dennis Brindell Fradin, illustrated by Michael McCurdy (Walker & Company)
This Our Dark Country: The American Settlers of Liberia
by Catherine Reef (Clarion Books)
Young Adventure’s Guide to Everest: From Avalanche to Zopkio
by Jonathan Chester (Tricycle Press)
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2002
[Winner] Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Houghton Mifflin)
[Honor Books]
The Cod’s Tale
by Mark Kurlansky, illustrated by S.D. Schindler (Penguin Putnam Books)
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: An Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer
by Barbara Kerley, illustrated by Brian Selznick (Scholastic Press)
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Hyperion Books for Children)
[Recommended Books]
Animals In Flight
by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page (Houghton Mifflin)
B. Franklin, Printer
by David A. Adler (Holiday House Books)
Brooklyn Bridge
by Lynn Curlee (Atheneum)
Gandhi
by Demi (McElderry Books)
Hatshepsut: His Majesty, Herself
by Catherine M. Andronik, illustrated by Joseph Daniel Fiedler (Atheneum)
Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope
by Stephen P. Kramer, photos by Dennis Kunkel (Houghton Mifflin)
Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist
by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
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2001
[Winner] Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush Californiaby Jerry Stanley (Crown)
[Honor Books]
The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin
by James Giblin, illustrated by Michael Dooling (Scholastic)
America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle
by David A. Adler, illustrated by Terry Widener (Gulliver Books)
Michelangelo
by Diane Stanley, (HarperCollins Juvenile Books)
Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter
by Alan B. Govenar, illustrated by Shane Evans (Jump at the Sun)
Wild & Swampy
by Jim Arnosky (HarperCollins Juvenile Books)
[Recommended Books]
Asteroid Impact
by Douglas Henderson (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews
by Ellen Levine (Holiday House)
Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography of Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews
by Ann Bausum and George Borup Andrews (National Geographic Society)
Feathered Dinosaurs
by Christopher Sloan (National Geographic Society)
Frank O. Gehry: Outside In
by Sandra Jordan and Jan Greenberg (DK Publishing)
A Handful of Dirt
by Raymond Bial (Walker & Company)
Liberty
by Lynn Curlee (Atheneum)
Nazi Germany: The Face of Tyranny
by Ted Gottfried, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn (Twenty First Century Books, Inc.)
Norman Rockwell: Storyteller With a Brush
by Beverly Gherman, illustrated by Norman Rockwell (Atheneum)
Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth
by Anne F. Rockwell, illustrated by Gregory Christie (Alfred A. Knopf)
Pick and Shovel Poet: The Journeys of Pascal D’Angelo
by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)
Voices of the Alamo
by Sherry Garland, illustrated by Ronald Himler (Scholastic Press)
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!: A Very Improper Story
by Shana Corey, illustrated by Chesley McLaren (Scholastic Press)
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2000
[Winner] Through My Eyesby Ruby Bridges, Margo Lundell (Scholastic Press)
[Honor Books]
At Her Majesty’s Request: An African Princess in Victorian England
by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Press)
Clara Schumann: Piano Virtuoso
by Susanna Reich (Clarion Books)
Mapping the World
by Sylvia A. Johnson (Atheneum)
The Snake Scientist
by Sy Montgomery, illustrated by Nic Bishop (Houghton Mifflin)
The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest
by Steve Jenkins (Houghton Mifflin)
[Recommended Titles]
About Reptiles: A Guide for Children
by Cathryn P. Sill, illustrated by John Sill (Peachtree Publishers)
Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion
by Russell Freedman (Clarioin Books)
Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World
by James Haskins, Kathleen Benson, illustrated by Floyd Cooper (Lothrop Lee & Shepard)
Building the Book Cathedral
by David MacAulay (Houghton Mifflin)
A Child's Book of Art: Discover Great Paintings
by Lucy Micklethwait (Dorling Kindersley)
Einstein: Visionary Scientist
by John B. Severance (Clarion Books)
Fire in Their Eyes: Wildfires and the People Who Fight Them
by Karen Magnuson Beil (Harcourt Brace)
In Search of the Spirit: The Living National Treasures of Japan
by Sheila Hamanaka, Ayano Ohmis (Morrow Jr.)
Kids on Strike!
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Houghton Mifflin)
The Mystery of the Hieroglyphics: The Story of the Rosetta Stone and the Race to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphics
by Carol Donoughue (Oxford University Press Children's Books)
A Nest of Dinosaurs: The Story of the Oviraptor
by Mark Norell, Lowell Dingus, illustrated by Mike Ellison (Doubleday)
Rushmore
by Lynn Curlee (Scholastic)
Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
by Maria Tallchief, Rosemary Wells (contributor), illustrated by Gary Kelley (Viking Press)
William Shakespeare and the Globe
by Aliki (HarperCollins Juvenile Books)
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1999
[Winner] Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extaordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Enduranceby Jennifer Armstrong (Crown)
[Honor Books]
Black Whiteness: Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic
by Robert Burleigh, illustrated by Walter Lyon Krudop (Atheneum)
Fossil Feud: The Rivalry of the First American Dinosaur Hunters
by Thom Holmes (Messner)
Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
by Steve Jenkins (Houghton)
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
by Anita Lobel (Greenwillow)
[Recommended Titles]
Behind the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I
by Jane Resh Thomas (Clarion)
Discovering the Inca Ice Maiden: My Adventures on Ampato
by Johan Reinhard (National Geographic)
Duke Ellington
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Hyperion)
Frontier Merchants: Lionel and Barron Jacobs and the Jewish Pioneers Who Settled the West
by Jerry Stanley (Crown)
Joan of Arc
by Diane Stanley (Morrow)
Light Shining Through the Mist: A Photobiography of Dian Fossey
by Tom L. Matthews (National Geographic)
Looking Back: A Book of Memories
by Lois Lowry (Houghton)
Martha Graham: A Dancer's Life
by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
On the Home Front: Growing Up in Wartime England
by Ann Stalcup (Linnet)
Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie
by Andrea Warren (Morrow)
Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange
by Elizabeth Partridge (Viking)
Safari
by Robert Bateman (Little, Brown)
Samuel Adams: The Father of American Independence
by Dennis Fradin (Clarion)
Snowflake Bentley
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrated by Mary Azarian (Houghton)
What's the Deal? Jefferson, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase
by Rhoda Blumberg (National Geographic)
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1998
[Winner] An Extraordinary Life: The Story of a Monarch Butterflyby Laurence Pringle (Orchard Books)
[Honor Books]
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder
by Walter Wick (Scholastic)
A Tree is Growing
by Arthur Dorros (Scholastic)
Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero
by James Cross Giblin (Clarion)
Kennedy Assassinated! The World Mourns: A Reporter’s Story
by Wilborn Hampton (Candlewick)
Digger: The Tragic Fate of the California Indians from the Missions to the Gold Rush
by Jerry Stanley (Crown)
[Recommended Titles]
Animal Dads
by Sneed B. Collard III, illustrated by Steve Jenkins (Houghton)
The Brain: Our Nervous System
by Seymour Simon (Morrow)
Catching the Fire: Philip Simmons, Blacksmith
by Mary E. Lyons, photographs by Mannie Garcia (Houghton)
The Dead Sea Scrolls
by Ilene Cooper, illustrated by John Thompson (Morrow)
Dinosaur Ghosts: The Mystery of Coelophysis
by J. Lynett Gillette, illustrated by Douglas Henderson (Dial Books)
Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown
by Clinton Cox (Scholastic)
A Log's Life
by Wendy Pfeffer, illustrated by Robin Bickman (Simon and Schuster)
The Planet Hunters: The Search for Other Worlds
by Dennis Brindell Fraden (McElderry)
The Snake Book
by Mary Ling and Mary Atkinson, photos by Frank Greenaway and David King (DK)
Leon's Story
by Leon Walter Tillage, collage art by Susan L. Roth (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
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1997
[Winner] Leonardo da Vinciby Diane Stanley (Morrow Junior Books)
[Honor Books]
Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad
by Rhonda Blumberg (National Geographic Society)
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)
One World, Many Religions: The Ways We Worship
by Mary Pope Osborne (Alfred A. Knopf)
[Recommended Titles]
The Abracadabra Kid
by Sid Fleischman (Greenwillow)
A Desert Scrapbook
by Virginia Wright-Frierson (Simon & Schuster)
A Strange and Distant Shore
by Brent Ashabranner (Cobblehill)
Dia's Story Cloth
by Cha Dia (Lee & Low/Denver Museum of Natural History)
Free to Dream
by Audrey Osofsky (Lothrop)
Growing Up in Coal Country
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Houghton)
Hurricanes
by Patricia Lauber (Scholastic)
John Steinbeck
by Catherine Reef (Clarion)
Mandela
by Floyd Cooper (Philomel)
Nearer Nature
by Jim Arnosky (Lothrop)
Starry Messenger
by Peter Sis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
We Have Conquered Pain
by Dennis Brindell Fradin (McElderry/Simon & Schuster)
Who Were the Founding Fathers?
by Steven Jaffe (Holt)
With Needle and Thread
by Raymond Bial (Houghton)
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1996
[Winner] The Great Fireby Jim Murphy (Scholastic)
[Honor Books]
Dolphin Man: Exploring the World of Dolphins
by Lawrence Pringle, photographs by Randall S. Wells (Atheneum)
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II
by Penny Colman (Crown)
[Recommended Titles]
Air: The Elements
by Ken Robbins (Henry Holt)
The Book of North American Owls
by Helen Roney Sattler, illustrated by Jean Day Zallinger (Clarion)
Everglades
by Jean Craighead George, paintings by Wendell Minor (HarperCollins)
Fire in the Forest: A Cycle of Growth and Renewal
by Laurence Pringle, paintings by Bob Marshall (Atheneum)
The Golden City: Jerusalem’s 3,000 Years
by Neil Waldman (Atheneum)
In Search of the Grand Canyon: Down the Colorado with John Wesley Powell
by Mary Ann Fraser (Holt)
The Life and Times of the Honeybee
by Charles Micucci (Ticknor & Fields)
Listen for the Bus: David’s Story
by Patricia McMahon, photos by John Godt (Boyds Mills)
The Magic of Mozart: Mozart, the Magic Flute, and the Salzburg Marionettes
by Ellen Switzer, photographs by Costas (Atheneum)
Raptor Rescue: An Eagle Flies Free
by Sylvia A. Johnson, photographs by Ron Winch (Dutton)
Summer Ice: Life Along the Antarctic Peninsula
by Bruce McMillan (Houghton Mifflin)
The Underground Railroad
by Raymond Bial (Houghton Mifflin)
Unraveling Fibers
by Patricia Keeler and Francis X. McCall Jr. (Atheneum)
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1995
[Winner] Safari Beneath the Sea: The Wonder World of the North Pacific Coastby Diane Swanson (Sierra Club Books)
[Honor Books]
Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters
by Patricia C. McKissack and Frederick L. McKissack (Scholastic)
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)
Wildlife Rescue: The Work of Dr. Kathleen Ramsay
by Jennifer Owings Dewey (Boyds Mills Press)
[Recommended Titles]
Ancient Ones: The World of the Old-Growth Douglas Fir
by Barbara Bash (Sierra Club Books)
Animals Who Have Won Our Hearts
by Jean Craighead George, illustrated by Christine Herman Merrill (HarperCollins)
Cheap Raw Material: How Our Youngest Workers Are Exploited and Abused
by Milton Meltzer (Viking)
Cleopatra
by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema (Morrow)
Fur, Feathers, and Flippers: How Animals Live Where They Do
by Patricia Lauber (Scholastic)
I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment
by Jerry Stanley (Crown)
Jazz: My Music, My People
by Morgan Monceaux (Knopf)
Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)
by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Harcourt Brace)
Rosie, a Visiting Dog’s Story
by Stephanie Calmenson, photographs by Justin Sutcliffe (Clarion)
Science to the Rescue
by Sandra Markle (Atheneum)
Squish! A Wetland Walk
by Nancy Luenn, illustrated by Ronald Himler (Atheneum)
Take a Look, an Introduction to the Experience of Art
by Rosemary Davidson (Viking)
Unconditional Surrender: U.S. Grant and the Civil War
by Albert Marrin (Atheneum)
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1994
[Winner] Across America on an Emigrant Trainby Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)
[Honor Books]
Making Sense: Animal Perception and Communication
by Bruce Brooks (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.)
To the Top of the World: Adventures with Arctic Wolves
by Jim Brandenburg (Walker & Company)
[Recommended Titles]
Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary
by Ruud van der Rol and Rian Verhoeven (Viking)
Be Seated: A Book about Chairs
by James Cross Giblin (HarperCollins)
Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of Hidden Childhood During World War II
by Nelly S. Toll (Dial Books)
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
by Russell Freedman (Clarion)
The Great Migration: An American Story
by Jacob Lawrence (HarperCollins)
Lincoln: In His Own Words
by Milton Meltzer, illustrated by Stephen Alcorn (Harcourt Brace)
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom
by Virginia Hamilton, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon (Knopf)
Shadows of the Night: The Hidden World of the Little Brown Bat
by Barbara Bash (Sierra Club Books for Children)
The Way West: Journal of a Pioneer Woman
by Amelia Stuart Knight, adapted with introduction by Lillian Schlissel, illustrated by Michael McCurdy (Simon and Schuster)
Whaling Days
by Carol Carrick (Clarion)
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1993
[Winner] Children in the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Campby Jerry Stanley (Crown Publishers, Inc.)
[Honor Books]
Come Back, Salmon
by Molly Cone (Sierra Club Books)
Talking with Artists
by Pat Cummings (Bradbury Press)
[Recommended Titles]
A Twilight Struggle: The Life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
by Barbara Harrison and Daniel Terris (Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard Books)
The Amazing Potato: A Story in which the Incas, Conquistadors, Marie Antoinette, Thomas Jefferson, Wars, Famines, Immigrants, and French Fries All Play a Part
by Milton Meltzer (HarperCollins)
An Indian Winter
by Russell Freedman (Holiday House)
Antarctica: The Lost Unspoiled Continent
by Lawrence Pringle (Simon and Schuster)
Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare
by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema (Morrow)
The Great St. Lawrence Seaway
by Gail Gibbons (Morrow)
Hopscotch Around the World
by Mary d. Lankford, illustrations by Karen Milone (Morrow Junior Books)
The Long Road to Gettysberg
by Jim Murphy (Clarion Books)
Surtsey: The Newest Place on Earth by Kathryn Lasky, photographs
by Christopher G. Knight (Hyperion Books for Children)
The Tainos: The People Who Welcomed Columbus
by Francine Jacobs, illustrated by Patrick Collins (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Wings Along the Waterway
by Mary Barrett Brown (Orchard Books)
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1992
[Winner] Flight: The Journey of Charles Lindberghby Robert Burleigh illustrated by Mike Wimmer (Philomel Books)
[Honor Books]
Now Is Your Time! The African American Struggle for Freedom
by Walter Dean Myers (HarperCollins)
Prairie Vision: The Life and Times of Solomon Butcher
by Pam Conrad (HarperCollins)
[Recommended Titles]
A Young Painter: The Life and Paintings of Wang Yani
by Zhensun and Low (Scholastic, Inc.)
Appalacia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds
by Cynthia Rylant, illustrations by Barry Moser (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)
Batman: Exploring the World of Bats
by Laurence Pringle, photographs by Merlin Tuttle (Charles Scribner’s Sons)
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt!
by Jean Fritz, illustrations by Mike Wimmer (G.P. Putnam)
Dawn to Dusk in the Galapagos
by Rita Goldman Gelman, photographs by Tui DeRoy (Little Brown)
The Discovery of the Americas
by Betsy and Giulio Maestro (Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard)
Earthquakes
by Seymour Simon (Morrow Junior)
N.C. Wyeth’s Pilgrims
by Robert SanSouci (Chronicle Books)
The Painter’s Eye: Learning to Look at Contemporary American Art
by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan (Delacorte)
Pueblo Boy: Growing Up in Two Worlds
by Marcia Keegan (Cobblehill)
Pueblo Storyteller
by Diana Hoyt-Goldsmith (Holiday)
The Remarkable Voyages of Captain Cook
by Rhoda Blumberg (Bradbury)
Summer of Fire: Yellowstone 1988
by Patricia Lauber (Orchard)
Voyager to the Planets
by Necia H. Apfel (Clarion)
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
by Russell Freedman (Holiday)
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1991
[Winner] Franklin Delano Rooseveltby Russell Freedman (Clarion Books)
[Honor Books]
Arctic Memories
by Normee Ekoomiak (Henry Holt)
Seeing Earth from Space
by Patricia Luber (Orchard Books)
[Recommended Titles]
Christopher Columbus
by Nancy Smiler Levinson (Lodestar/Dutton)
The Clover and the Bee
by Anne Ophelia Dowden (Crowell)
Columbus and the World Around Him
by Milton Meltzer (Franklin Watts)
Dinosaur Dig
by Kathryn Lasky, photographs by Christopher G. Knight (Morrow)
Giraffes
by Helen Roney Sattler, illustrations by Christopher Santoro (Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard)
Good Queen Bess
by Diand Stanley and Peter Vennema (Four Winds)
The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System
by Joanna Cole, illustrations by Bruce Degan (Scholastic)
The Many Lives of Benjamin Franklin
by Mary Pope Osborne (Dial)
Mom Can’t See Me
by Sally Hobart Alexander, photographs by George Ancona (Macmillain)
My Hiroshima
by Junko Morimoto (Viking)
Oceans
by Seymour Simon (Morrow)
The Oregon Trail
by Leonard Everett Fisher (Holiday House)
The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone
by James Cross Giblin (Crowell)
Totem Pole
by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith, photographs by Lawrence Migdale (Holiday House)
Wolves
by R.D. Lawrence (Sierra Club/Little Brown)
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1990
[Winner] The Great Little Madisonby Jean Fritz (Putnam)
[Honor Books]
The Great American Gold Rush
by Rhoda Blumberg (Bradbury Press)
The News about Dinosaurs
by Patricia Lauber (Bradbury Press)
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