Middle grade readers can learn more about the Vietnam War in Boots on the Ground by Elizabeth Partridge. This picture book biography is ideal for read alouds and curricular explorations of theme and genre, but will also have young artists and athletes alike reading it for pleasure over and over again.
New Hampshire and CLiF’s own Sandra Neil Wallace’s Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery, illustrated by Bryan Collier, won the Orbis Pictus Award. The 2019 winners offer elementary and middle grade readers a range of fascinating options, and teachers a dazzling array of teaching possibilities and versatile roles in curriculum. We look for the kinds of books that, when finished, send young people off to find out more about the topic. The Orbis Pictus award seeks to find interesting, engaging, well-written, and well-documented nonfiction books that prompt inquiry on the part of young people. The award is in honor of Orbis Sensualium Pictus, first published in 1658, written by John Amos Comenius, and considered the first modern picture book and the first book to intentionally use both words and images to convey information to young people. The Orbis Pictus was first awarded in 1990, having been established to recognize the changes in nonfiction literature for children that began to happen in the 1980s, to recognize the increasingly “artful” ways in which writers and illustrators were approaching nonfiction, and to celebrate the fact that many young people are avid nonfiction readers. While the award itself has been around for almost thirty years, it’s a “quiet” award that members of the CLiF community may not yet know about. Recently, I just completed my fourth and final year on the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)’s Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction selection committee.
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