2025 Orbis Pictus Award

The 2025 Orbis Pictus Award, the National Council of Teachers of English prize for outstanding nonfiction for children, went to Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools by Dan SaSuWeh Jones, a history of the schools that separated Native children from their families and cultures. Five honor books were named: Borderlands and the Mexican American Story by David Dorado Romo; Ode to Grapefruit: How James Earl Jones Found His Voice by Kari Lavelle, illustrated by Bryan Collier; Life After Whale by Lynn Brunelle, illustrated by Jason Chin; Behold the Hummingbird! by Suzanne Slade, illustrated by Thomas Gonzalez; and Space: The Final Pooping Frontier by Annabeth Bondor-Stone and Connor White, illustrated by Lars Kenseth. NCTE announced the awards on November 23, 2024, at its annual convention in Boston.