Nonfiction
Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted by Andrew Wilson. Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster. 2013. Personal copy. One of my “vacation reads” — books for the grown ups, reviewed around holidays, when you may want to take time off from reading young adult books. It’s About: Sylvia Plath before [...]
Scientists encounter amazing phenomena in their work. Narrative nonfiction provides readers with answers and teachers with informational texts for curriculum standards support. The following science titles, selected by the editors at Junior Library Guild, are sure to foster an interest in knowing more about our world, and the scientists who study it.
A few years back, I mourned the loss of Google’s New Timeline. I still miss that beautiful visual presentation, but you can still use Google News to search contemporaneous news. Contemporaneous news offers students unfiltered, personal connection to the past and forces them to wrestle with issues of bias and historical perspective. Contemporaneous news focuses a media literacy [...]
SLJ's book review editors selected the best nonfiction titles of 2013. Here you'll find rich primary source material, engaging narrative style, and sophisticated design. Historical giants as well as little known figures are profiled in this list of distinguished informational books.
Travis Jonker, 100 Scope Notes blogger, with news about Nonfiction Monday.
Highlighted this month are must-have titles ranging in subject from animals and inventors to poetry and essays.
A bevy of new nonfiction titles open a window onto the extraordinary animals that walked the earth eons ago.
Nonny Hogrogian's picture book Come Back, Moon; Fanny Britt's graphic novel Jane, the Fox & Me; and Mike and the Mighty Magic Pants's CD Gotta Be the Pants! made SLJ's November stars list. Take a look inside for more stellar titles.
It’s a common complaint that many children don’t participate in creative activities that aren’t technology based. The books reviewed below are antidotes to this situation.
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