From: Melissa Stewart <hbeeprod_at_msn.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:00:44 -0400

I'm putting together a talk on this topic, so I'd like to share my bibliography. Today's nonfiction must delight as well as inform. These books feature engaging writing and are also visually dynamic. They all have something special to offer young readers. And they all fit perfectly into the national curriculum standards.

Actual Size by Steve Jenkins

Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone

Arctic Lights, Artic Nights by Debbie S. Miller (illus. Jon Van Zyle)

Born to Be Giants: How Baby Dinosaurs Grew to Rule the World by Lita Judge

Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs by Kathleen Kudlinski (illus. S. D. Schindler)

Charles and Emma: The Darwin's Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

The Day-Glo Brothers by Chris Barton (illus. Tony Persiani)

An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston (illus. Sylvia Long)

How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page

It's Spit-acular by Melissa Stewart

Joyful Noise! by Paul Fleishman (illus. Eric Beddows)

Lucy Long Ago: Uncovering the Mysteries of Where We Came From by Catherine Thimmesh

Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge

Meet the Howlers by April Pulley Sayre (illus. Woody Miller)

Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonard da Vinci by Gene Baretta

Nic Bishop Spiders by Nic Bishop

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai by Claire A. Nivola

A Rainbow of Animals by Melissa Stewart

Redwoods by Jason Chin

River of Words: the Story of William Carlos Williams by Jen Bryant (illus. by Melissa Sweet)

Sneeze by Alexanndra Siy (photos Dennis Kunkel

Song of the Water Boatman by Joyce Sidman (illus. Beckie Prange)

Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors by Joyce Sidman (illus. Beckie Prange)

Under the Snow by Melissa Stewart (illus. Constance R. Bergum)

Volcano Wakes Up! by Lisa Westberg Peters (illus. Steve Jenkins)

Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre (illus. Steve Jenkins)

What to Do About Alice? How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! by Barbara Kerley (illus. Edwin Fotheringham)

When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature's Balance in Yellowstone by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent (photos Dan and Cassie Hartman)

Where in the Wild? Camouflaged Creatures Concealed and Revealed by David Schwartz and Yael Schy (photos Dwight Kuhn)

Wolfsnail: A Backyard Predator by Sarah C. Campbell and Richard P. Campbell
Received on Fri 08 Oct 2010 07:00:44 AM CDT