Every Monday, kidlit bloggers celebrate some of the fantastic non-fiction available for kids and teens. I have the pleasure of hosting today’s Non-Fiction Monday Round Up! Leave a link to your post about a non-fiction title in the comments, and I’ll update throughout the day.
My contribution this week is the DK Encyclopedia of Animals. Recently, we borrowed a copy from a friend and had to order our own before we gave it back. This encyclopedia is a beautifully-photographed, reasonably-priced reference that would be useful to any animal lover. The first pages explain how to use the book. The next section covers general information about animals including topics such as classification, camouflage, organs, senses, and various habitats.
The bulk of the book is comprised of “Animals A to Z”. Each animal covered has 1-3 pages of annotated pictures, captions and a fact box. I can think of numerous ways we will use this book as homeschoolers, but one way we’ve already incorporated it into our studies was as a practice book for using an index and a table of contents and finding alphabetically arranged entries.
Posts from around the Kidlitosphere:
Learn how 1+1=5 at 100 Scope Notes.
Read about The Horrors of Andersonville at Bookish Blather.
Tammy from Apples with Many Seeds has reviewed books that turn research into a mystery hunt.
Read about two burros who delivery books in Biblioburro at Shelf-Employed.
Click over to Charlotte’s Library to read about Swords: An Artist’s Devotion.
Abby the Librarian joins us with Project Seahorse.
To read about Fainting Goats And Other Weird Mammals head over to Simply Science.
Learn what animals do before a hurricane at Wild About Nature.
Jean Little Library has a review of Summer Birds.
Check out the short list for the Mock Sibert Awards.
Rasco from Rif is sharing ANTics an alphabet book filled with ant antics.
Head over to The Fourth Musketeer to learn more about The Candy Bomber.
NC Teacher Stuff has a great book for these hot summer days: The Coldest Places on Earth.
Jennie from Bibio File has reviewed Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It Kelly Gallagher, a book for adults who care about reading.
Take an alphabetical tour of Walden Pond at Check It Out.
Join Carrie in her Comfy Cozy Reading Nook for Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s Survivors.
Visit Bookends to learn more about Sir Charlie Chaplin: The Funniest Man in the World
MotherReader has a review of My Stroke of Insight.
Brenda at proseandkahn joins us with a review of Planet Hunter.
Read up on the Famous Places series at A Patchwork of Books.
Three Turtles and Their Pet Librarian have also reviewed a series, Media Literacy.
Learn about A Log’s Life, part of Wrapped In Foil’s Festival of the Trees.
Click over to Books Together for a review of A Boy Named Giotto.
Wendie Old discovered the difference between Alligators and Crocodiles at Wendie’s Wanderings.
Hi Sarah.
Thanks for hosting this Monday’s roundup.
The posting I’d like to include is about books that tell a great real life story with a focus on research.
http://applewithmanyseedsdoucette.blogspot.com/2010/07/hunt-is-on.html.
Thank you.
Tammy
Apples With Many Seeds
(http://applewithmanyseedsdoucette.blogspot.com/)
Thanks for assuming hosting duties. At 100 Scope Notes I review a swell new mathematical title: 1+1=5 and Other Unlikely Additions. http://100scopenotes.com/2010/07/19/nonfiction-monday-115-by-david-larochelle/
Hi!
Thanks for hosting!
The encyclopedia sounds fabulous! A great one for when my kid’s are old… in the meantime, we are still on Dr Seuss One Fish Two Fish Three Fish… http://redtedart.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/kids-book-kids-iphone-app-review-dr-seuss-one-fish-two-fish-dr-seusss-abc/
Many thanks!
Maggy
As a kid I always loved the DK titles. They really do make unparalleled books when it comes to design and clarity of information.
My Nonfiction Monday title is The Horrors of Andersonville Prison, a truly apt title, over at Bookish Blather.
Today at Shelf-employed, I’m reviewing Biblioburro, an ispirational picture book biography of the Biblioburro, Luis Soriano’s one-man, two-burro library that travels the remote villages of Columbia. http://www.shelf-employed.blogspot.com
Hi Sarah, I’m in with Swords, by Ben Boos — http://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2010/07/swords-for-non-fiction-monday.html
Thanks!
This week at Abby the Librarian I have Project Seahorse by Pamela S. Turner.
http://www.abbythelibrarian.com/2010/07/project-seahorse.html
Thanks for hosting!!
Shirley at SimplyScience has a post about Fainting Goats and Other Weird Mammals for young readers.
http://simplyscience.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/i-like-weird-animals/
I love the DK books, too. I’m hoping to review a couple soon–and I’ve given my great-nieces several of them because they were so interested in animals. I’ll be sure to check out this one.
To mark the beginning of the season, we have a review of Ready, Set…WAIT! What Animals Do Before a Hurricane by Patti R. Zelch at the Wild About nature blog:
http://wildaboutnaturewriters.blogspot.com/2010/07/nonfiction-monday-ready-setwait.html
Thank you for hosting this week!
Kim
oooo, lots of cool books today! I have a review of Margarita Engle’s Summer Birds
http://jeanlittlelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/07/nonfiction-monday-summer-birds.html
The first ACPL Mock Sibert Award reading list is complete and available at:
http://acplmocksibert.blogspot.com/2010/07/2011-mock-sibert-reading-list-1.html
Take a minute to check out what titles we’ve been reading, and be sure to comment on your favorite (or not so favorite) non-fiction books for children this year!
Happy reading!
Mandy
Thank you for hosting! I have read ANTics! which is a fun alphabet book; it is found here:
http://www.rascofromrif.org/?p=11312
Hi, at The Fourth Musketeer today I review a new book about The Candy Bomber, a story about “chocolate, bubble gum, and hope” and how one person can make a difference.
Here’s the link:
http://fourthmusketeer.blogspot.com/2010/07/book-review-candy-bomber-story-of.html
Hi Sarah. Thanks for hosting this week! I posted a review of The Coldest Places on Earth this week:
http://ncteacherstuff.blogspot.com/2010/07/coldest-places-on-earth.html
Thank you so much for hosting! I’m in this week with a review of Readicide by Kelly Gallagher
http://www.jenrothschild.com/2010/07/nonfiction-monday-readicide.html
Thank you for hosting today. I have a review of a new book about Walden Pond. Here is mine:
Thanks for hosting! Here is my first Nonfiction Monday post about Joyce Sidman’s Ubiquitous.
http://prekroomideas.blogspot.com/2010/07/nonfiction-monday-ubiquitous.html
We’re a little slow getting to the blog this morning but we have a terrific book we’re talking about: Sir Charlie Chaplin: The Funniest Man in the World by Sid Fleischman.
Thanks for hosting today.
MotherReader has an adult nonfiction book, My Stroke of Insight, here:
http://www.motherreader.com/2010/07/my-stroke-of-insight.html
Thanks for hosting!
You’re a busy host this month Sarah! Thanks again. I just finished my post on Planet Hunter by Vicki Oransky Wittenstein. It should get a lot of middle school kids excited about the possibility of exploring beyond our solar system.
http://proseandkahn.livejournal.com/132810.html
Thanks.
brenda
I do this every single week…have my post up in the early morning and forget to come link it until late afternoon. Bad blogger!
Anyways, I have a review of the Famous Places series by Lerner books up on my blog:
http://apatchworkofbooks.blogspot.com/2010/07/non-fiction-monday-famous-places.html
Thanks for hosting!
A little late in the day (everything we do right now is a little late), but we have a whole series:
http://3tnar.blogspot.com/2010/07/nonfiction-monday-media-literacy-series.html
I’m afraid I’m kind of slow today, but I have another book in honor of trees this month, A Log’s Life.
http://blog.wrappedinfoil.com/2010/07/a-logs-life/
You were brave to sign up for two carnivals in a row. Hope things are going well for you.
Sarah.
FYI: When I clicked on the link for Bookish Blather, it took me to the All About Birds website. Am I missing something?
Thanks for letting me know Roberta. It’s fixed now. We were listening to bird calls this morning and I must have copied the wrong page. Sorry about that!
It’s very late! But I managed to squeak in a post on A Boy Named Giotto. Thanks!
http://bookstogether.squarespace.com/blog/2010/7/19/a-boy-named-giotto.html
Wendie Old discovered the difference between Alligators and Crocodiles at Wendie’s Wanderings this Nonfiction Monday.
http://blog.wendieold.com/2010/07/nonfiction-monday-alligators-and.html
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