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2026 Orbis Pictus and Charlotte Huck Awards Announced
Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault by Megan Clendenan and A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila are the Orbis Pictus and Charlotte Huck award winners, respectively.
The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) announced the 2026 winners of the Orbis Pictus and Charlotte Huck awards at the organization’s national conference in Denver.
The 2026 Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children went to Just in Case: Saving Seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault by Megan Clendenan, illustrated by Brittany Cicchese.
The five honor titles are: Rebels, Robbers, and Radicals: The Story of the Bill of Rights by Teri Kanefield; Dreams to Ashes: The 1871 Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre by Livia Blackburne, illustrated by Nicole Xu; Alberto Salas juega a la paka paka con la papa: Únete a la búsqueda con el célebre científico y experto en papas Peruano by Sara Andrea Fajardo, illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal; The Keeper of Stories by Caroline Kusin Pritchard, illustrated by Selina Alko; and At Last She Stood: How Joey Guerrero Spied, Survived, and Fought for Freedom by Erin Entrada Kelly.
The Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children, which recognizes fiction that “has the potential to transform children’s lives by inviting compassion, imagination, and wonder,” was awarded to A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila.
The five honor titles are: The Trouble with Heroes by Kate Messner; All the Blues in the Sky by Renée Watson; Don't Cause Trouble by Arree Chung; Kwesi and Nana Ruby Learn to Swim by Kobina Commeh, illustrated by Bárbara Quintino; and The Playdate by Uje Brandelius, illustrated by Clara Dackenberg.
The NCTE also announced that the 2026 recipient of its Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children is Charles R. Smith Jr. Smith has created and contributed to more than 40 books for children. He was the winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration in 2010 for his photographs in the book of Langston Hughes’s poem, My People, and a 2008 Coretta Scott King Honor Author Award winner for his biography on Muhammad Ali, Twelve Rounds to Glory.
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