“Orbis Pictus Award.” The Coninum Encyclopedia of C hildren’s Literature. Smith Branch of the Toronto Public Library (Reference only) The above excerpt is taken from The Coninum Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature available at the Osborne Collection at the Lillian H.

The first award was presented in 1990 to The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz. The NCTE Committee on the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Non-fiction for children established the criteria of excellence and meets annually to select the winner of any Honor Books. The goal of the Orbis is to encourage the production of high-quality non-fiction and to promote its use in the classroom. Its author, John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komensky) (1592 to 1670). Historically, this is considered the first book actually planned and published for children, its goal was to teach children about their world. Considered to be the first childrens picturebook, Orbis Pictus is a work of nonfiction. Since 1989, The Orbis Pictus Award for Out-standing Nonfiction has annually recognized high- quality, engaging, and artful nonfiction for readers in grades PreK8.

The NCTE Orbis for outstanding nonfiction for children commemorates the work of John Amos Comenius’s, Orbis Pictus: The World Illustrated, published in English in 1658. 2019 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children. Stolp 3/01/ EDU Above the Rim: Orbis Pictus Criteria Above the Rim could be a really great contribution to the K-8 curriculum. The Orbis Pictus Award for outstanding nonfiction for children was established in 1989 by the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH.

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