Tucson Festival of Books

Teaching with Award-Winning Nonfiction


The non-fiction books selected for the 2025 NCTE Orbis Pictus Awards include scientific, historical, and cultural topics important to K-8 classrooms. Get a close look at the award-winning books and explore how to use them in the classroom.


Panelists
Caryl Crowell

Caryl Crowell is a retired TUSD teacher and member of the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Committee. She taught Grades 1-3 in a bilingual multiage class and used literature as the core of her reading program. She has written many reviews of children's literature for annotated bibliographies and journal articles....

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Janelle Mathis

Janelle Mathis is an emeritus faculty member from the University of North Texas where she taught in the Department of Teacher Education and Administration.  Her ongoing research interests include multimodality within picturebooks....

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