Nonfiction
There are so many great stories in athletics that it’s not surprising that young readers never seem to get their fill of sports books.
The English language, with its many nuances and rules, is complicated. Good literature and quality examples help children to internalize and gain ownership of its conventions.
Without honeybees, much of our food supply would consist of corn, rice, and oats. Six muscles attached to your eye keep it from popping out. New volcanoes create mountains, islands, and land. Such are the facts gleaned from these amazing science nonfiction titles selected by the editors at Junior Library Guild.
Turner’s newest offering tops even her stellar The Frog Scientist (2009) and Project Seahorse (2010, both Houghton Mifflin).
History is etched in stone. The interpretation of it is not. One of the perennial challenges for purveyors of the past is the almost irresistible urge to compartmentalize it into neat, clinical time lines and periods with no room for interpretation.
Most of recorded world history is the story of the achievements and actions of or interactions among cultures. In some cases, societies created or contributed ideas or technology that led to more freedoms, greater prosperity, and better lives for millions.
Would you perform a ballet that was inspired by a geometry lecture? What about a puppet show about engineering? Sounds outright odd, right? But maybe dancing about math would feel less strange if you knew that young learners would never forget the lesson.
Though STEM subjects often lose their shine in later years, to many younger children they are a consuming interest.
Teachers can bank on these math series to encourage successful classroom learning.
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