Category Archives: Nonfiction
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A Little Book of Sloth by Lucy Cooke
Posted on May 29, 2013 by Children's Department Staff in animals, Family Read-Aloud, NonfictionA Little Book of Sloth is a strong contender for the cutest children’s book I’ve ever seen. Lucy Cooke, filmmaker, photographer, and zoologist, has captured the adorable residents of the Avarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica. Founded by Judy Arroyo, the refuge is the home to 150 baby and adult sloths. The wonderful photos capture [...]
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Frog Song by Brenda Z. Guiberson, illustrated by Gennady Spirin
Posted on May 9, 2013 by Children's Department Staff in animals, Nonfiction, Picture BooksThe team of Brenda Guiberson and Gennady Spirin has created another stunning science picture book. Frogs from all over the world are featured in detailed double page illustrations. Guiberson writes clever descriptions of eleven exotic frog species. Spirin creates the artwork using tempera, watercolor, and pencil on watercolor paper. Knowing that there is no computer manipulation in Spirin’s [...]
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Invincible Microbe by Jim Murphy
Posted on April 15, 2013 by Jessica in Nonfiction, social issuesInvincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure by Jim Murphy I saw this book laying out on a library table one evening, and for some reason, it intrigued me. I checked it out thinking I’d just skim it, but ended up reading it from cover to cover. I’d only ever gotten little [...]
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Really Really Big Questions About Me and My Body by Dr. Stephen Law
Posted on April 9, 2013 by Children's Department Staff in Nonfiction, UncategorizedThe Really, Really Big Questions series tackles some of the philosophical questions that older kids often ask their parents. These books are meant to bring these questions up for thought and discussion. There are five books in the series; MPL also owns Really, Really Big Questions About Space and Time and Really, Really Big Questions About God, Faith [...]
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Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
Posted on March 25, 2013 by Jennifer in Newbery, Nonfiction, other award winnersCold war nonfiction is not my favorite reading topic, but this book won a number of children’s and young adult book awards this winter, including best nonfiction (Sibert Award) and a Newbery honor for best children’s book (fiction or nonfiction). My husband and I had visited Los Alamos on a trip to New Mexico a [...]
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Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Posted on February 6, 2013 by Jennifer in Nonfiction, world culturesWhen this book came in, I started flipping through it at my desk because the topic reminded me of a Laotian refugee who was in my class when I was in 2nd grade. I had to give up my lunch hour to keep reading because I couldn’t put the book down once I started. Tuyet’s [...]
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Dinosaurs by Penelope Arlon
Posted on November 30, 2012 by Children's Department Staff in animals, NonfictionLearn all the newest information about hundreds of dinosaurs in this new entry in the Scholastic Discover More series. Dinosaurs ranging from the Microraptor, one of the smallest dinosaurs, to the largest dinosaur yet discovered, Argentinosaurus, are included. The book covers the familiar and the newly discovered dinosaurs from the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. The [...]
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Unusual Creatures
Posted on November 25, 2012 by Jessica in animals, NonfictionUnusual Creatures: a Mostly Accurate Account of Some of the Earth’s Strangest Animals by Michael Hearst If you’re the kind ofkid who loves the absurd, this book will fit the bill. It covers some bizarre animals – blobfish, glass frogs, anglerfish, narwhals, and more – and then outlines exactly what makes them so weird. It [...]
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The Skull in the Rock by Lee R. Berger and Marc Aronson
Posted on October 27, 2012 by Katie in NonfictionThe Skull in the Rock is a nonfiction account of how 9-year-old Matthew Berger, son of paleoanthropologist Dr. Lee Berger, discovered a human fossil while on a routine dig with his father. The fossil Matthew found, however, was anything but routine–it turned out to be part of a skeleton that, according to Dr. Berger, “may [...]
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Meet the Presidents
Posted on October 21, 2012 by Jennifer in Newspaper column, Nonfiction, Realistic FictionColumn published in The Mercury 10-21-12 As expected, a flood of presidential-themed children’s books came out this fall. Here are some fun books that allow kids to take a more light-hearted approach to learning about our presidents and the election process: Bad Kitty for President by Nick Bruel makes kids laugh out loud, and they [...]
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