Every Monday, kidlit bloggers celebrate the fantastic non-fiction available for kids and teens. I’m excited to be 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 for today is Serengeti Journey: On Safari in Africa, a National Geographic Science Chapters book. The book includes an introduction, chapters on elephants, giraffes, and cheetahs, a short summary chapter, and information on writing a report.
We’re using it as part of a unit study on African animals. My 7-year-old devoured each chapter this week and then told me fact after fact that she had learned. I loved seeing her so excited about reading non-fiction. Next week, we’ll do a writing project based on what she learned.
There are lots of titles in the National Geographic Science Chapters series, including Amazon Journey, Mysteries of the Sea, and All About Ants. We’ll definitely be using more of them in the future.
Post from around the kidlitosphere:
Read about an amaizng graphic novel about violence among children, Fist Stick Knife Gun at Pink Me.
Jeff at NC Teacher Stuff has a review of Get to Know Wedges.
Hop over to Charlotte’s Library to read about DK’s Ask Me Everything.
Abby the Librarian tells us about The Buzz on Bees.
Learn about Creative Kitchen Crafts at A Patchwork of Books
Read a review and enter a giveaway for The Barefoot Book of Dance Stories, a mix of non-fiction and folktales.
Learn about Survival at 40 Below at Wild About Nature.
Wendie Old has a review of The Little Kids First Big Book of Animals.
Get Face to Face with Wolves at Book Dads.
Learn more about Bring Me Some Apples and I’ll Make You a Pie at Rasco from RIF.
Jupiter joins Non-Fiction Monday for the first time with Recycle This Book.
Read about Time is When at The Cat in the Hat blog.
Roberta from Wrapped in Foil shares Beautiful Oops.
Shirley Duke at Simply Science shares her own Infections, Infestations, and Diseases.
Rock out with Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow at Bookends.
Anastasia Suen shares The Shocking Truth About Energy.
Read about Benno and the Night of Broken Glass at Maclibrary.
Michelle Markel at The Cat and the Fiddle shares a post on story arcs in picture book biographies.
Check out a few National Geographic Easy Readers (Ants and Great Migrations: Elephants) at The Reading Tub.
Another book blending folklore and non-fiction, How the Moon Regained Her Shape is the subject of today’s post at A Wrunge Sponge.
Learn about What Rot! Nature’s Mighty Recycler at Apples With Many Seeds.
Head over to Chicken Spaghetti to read about Liberty or Death, Candy Bomber, and The World Famous Miles City Bucking Horse Sale.
Janet Squires joins us with a review of Math Appeal: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles.
I am in awe of Geoffrey Canada, Jamar Nicholas and FIST STICK KNIFE GUN on Pink Me today: http://pinkme.typepad.com/pink-me/2010/11/fist-stick-knife-gun-geoffrey-canada-jamar-nicholas-review.html
Thanks for hosting!
Thank you for hosting! I bet the photographs in Serengeti Journey are fantastic. I’ve posted a review of Get To Know Wedges at NC Teacher Stuff:
http://ncteacherstuff.blogspot.com/2010/11/get-to-know-wedges.html
I have Ask Me Everything, from DK — http://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2010/11/ask-me-everything-from-dk-for-non.html
thanks for rounding up!
Good morning! Over at Abby the Librarian, I’ve got a review of The Buzz on Bees by Shelley Rotner and Anne Woodhull.
http://www.abbythelibrarian.com/2010/11/buzz-on-bees.html
Thanks for hosting this week!
At Picture Books & Pirouettes, I’m holding my first book giveaway this week. It’s for The Barefoot Book of Dance Stories (by Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple), which is a new collection of folktales and factual information related to dances from eight cultures.
http://kerryaradhya.blogspot.com/2010/11/giveaway-barefoot-book-of-dance-stories_14.html
Thanks for hosting this week. These science books for kids look really great. I’ll keep them in mind when my kids get a little older. Thanks for sharing!
I have a review up of Creative Kitchen Crafts on the blog today:
http://apatchworkofbooks.blogspot.com/2010/11/non-fiction-monday-creative-kitchen.html
Thanks for hosting!
The Wild About Nature blog has a review of Survival at 40 Below by Debbie S. Miller.
http://wildaboutnaturewriters.blogspot.com/2010/11/nonfiction-monday-survival-at-40-below.html
Serengeti Journey looks so interesting!
Thanks for hosting this week.
Kim
Thank you for hosting! I am thinking food and the menu for Thanksgiving so have a book about pies (and much more).
BRING ME SOME APPLES AND I’LL MAKE YOU A PIE: THE STORY OF EDNA LEWIS by Robbin Gourley.
http://www.rascofromrif.org/?p=13645
Carol
Oh, I love this book series! So handy for homeschooling.
This is my 1st time participating in Non-Fiction Monday.Here’s my post about Recycle This Book
http://jupitersinclair.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/non-fiction-monday-recycle-this-book/
Thanks for hosting! The Cath in the Hat blog has a review of a nonfiction picture book titled Time Is When at:
http://thecathinthehat.blogspot.com/2010/11/time-is-when.html
Sarah,
National Geographic does have some exciting nonfiction books out right now, don’t they?
I reviewed Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg today at http://blog.wrappedinfoil.com/2010/11/beautiful-oops-is-beautiful/ It is a lively and fun interactive book with a simple, but important message.
Hope you are doing well, and thanks for hosting,
-Roberta
Thanks for hosting! I also have a National Geographic book up for review on Book Dads:
National Geographic Face to Face with Wolves – http://bookdads.com/book-review/book-review-national-geographic-face-to-face-with-wolves/
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Thank you for hosting. I have my 100th post up at SimplyScience for Infections, Infestations, and Diseases by me–Shirley Duke.
http://simplyscience.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/100th-post-infections-infestations-and-diseases/
Bookends (http://bookends.booklistonline.com/2010/11/15/jimi-sounds-like-a-rainbow-by-gary-golio/) is rockin’ out with Jimi Hendrix today in a blog about Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow by Gary Golio.
Thanks for hosting today! I’m in with The Shocking Truth About Energy by Loreen Leedy (Author, Illustrator)
http://picturebookday.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/nonfiction-monday-the-shocking-truth-about-energy/
I am in with a review of Benno and the Night of Broken Glass: http://maclibrary.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/nonfiction-monday-benno-and-the-night-of-broken-glass/
Thank you for hosting us.
Should picture book biographies be comprehensive? Should they be short and gripping? Which is best for young readers? The Cat & The Fiddle offers a post on story arcs in p.b. bio’s:
http://michellemarkel.blogspot.com
Thanks for hosting!
Thanks for hosting, Sarah! I’m in with two National Geographic Easy Readers: Ants and Great Migrations: Elephants!
http://childrens-literacy.com/2010/11/15/nonfiction-monday-bats-and-ants-and-who-knows-what-else/
Thanks for this round up! I have a picture book blending folklore with science and strategies for dealing with bullies: How the Moon Regained Her Shape by Ruth Heller at A Wrung Sponge. http://awrungsponge.blogspot.com/2010/11/review-how-moon-regained-her-shape.html
Morning.
Thanks for taking care of today’s event.
At Apples with Many Seeds I’m looking at What Rot! Nature’s Mighty Recycler and how a student teacher got her grade 6 students keen about the nutrient cycle.
http://applewithmanyseedsdoucette.blogspot.com/2010/11/gross-or-engrossing.html
Thanks.
Tammy
I am in with writeups of three books for middle grade/YA readers: Liberty or Death, Candy Bomber, and The World Famous Miles City Bucking Horse Sale.
http://bit.ly/aedyQd
Thank you for rounding up!
Susan
Chicken Spaghetti
I’m continuing my “fun with math” by offering Math Appeal: mind-stretching math riddles written by Greg Tang, illustrated by Harry Briggs.
Thanks for hosting! Just FYI, the link you referred in your post is to the wrong site:
Get Face to Face with Wolves at Book Dads.
Link points to Wendy’s site above.
Here’s the correct link:
http://bookdads.com/book-review/book-review-national-geographic-face-to-face-with-wolves/
Thanks 🙂
I was hoping to email you about a book release but couldn’t find your email address on your blog, could you please provide it for me. Thank you!