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The NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction was established in 1989 to honor the contributions of authors and illustrators to children's nonfiction literature. This year's winner of the NCTE [...]

The NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction recognizes books, authors, and illustrators that make outstanding contributions to children's nonfiction literature. This award was established in 1989 by the elementary [...]

The set of books recognized by the 2021 committee of the Orbis Pictus Award for Excellence in Nonfiction reflects an array of perspectives, topics, and genres of nonfiction literature for [...]

Teachers' biases when teaching language to foreign students should be examined and discouraged. Biases negatively define and label children and families. They also limit teachers' vision of what is educationally possible.

The benefits of being a bilingual person and how it was perceived in a non-Spanish community such as Columbus, South Carolina are discussed. Children have seen the value of being bilingual and were proud of it since bilingualism was considered cool among their peers. Adults must learn to drop the issue with bilinguals and embrace the children's attitude toward the Spanish language.

All children, regardless of their first language, social language, social class, culture or beliefs have the right to a quality education. A teacher relates her experience of culminating a project based on teaching in a holistic manner while at the same time incorporating the children's home language and culture.