2025 Orbis Pictus and Charlotte Huck Award Winners Announced

by SLJ Staff
Dec 09, 2024 | Filed in News & Features

NCTE has announced Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of American Indian Boarding Schools by Dan SaSuWeh Jones and The Last Stand by Antwan Eady, illus. by Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey, as the 2025 Orbis Pictus and Charlotte Huck award winners, respectively. 

Image of the two winning books' coversThe NCTE announced the winners of the 2025 Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children and Charlotte Huck for Outstanding Fiction for Children.

The 2025 Orbis Pictus winner is Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of American Indian Boarding Schools by Dan SaSuWeh Jones.

The Orbis Pictus honor titles are: Borderlands and the Mexican American Story by David Dorado Romo, Ode to Grapefruit: How James Earl Jones Found His Voice by Kari Lavelle, illus. by Bryan Collier, Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle, illus. by Jason Chin, Behold the Hummingbird! by Suzanne Slade, illus. by Thomas Gonzalez, Space: The Final Pooping Frontier by Annabeth Bondor-Stone and Connor White, illus. by Lars Kenseth.

The winner of the 2025 Charlotte Huck is The Last Stand by Antwan Eady, illus. by Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey.

The Charlotte Huck honor titles are: And Then, Boom! by Lisa Fipps, Dad, I Miss You by Nadia Sammurtok, illus. by Simji Park, Popcorn by Rob Harrell, A Flicker of Hope: A Story of Migration by Cynthia Harmony, illus. by Devon Holzwarth, and Summer at Squee by Andrea Wang.

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