I read about When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before Dinosaurs by Hannah Bonner in this wonderful post at I.N.K (Interesting Nonfiction for Kids). M and I had read a little about animals that existed before dinosaurs and we both wanted to learn [...]
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Non-Fiction Monday: When Bugs Were Big
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, reading, tagged dinosaurs, fossils, prehistory on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Non-Fiction Monday: Bird, The Definitive Visual Guide
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, tagged birds, non-fiction on May 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As I’ve mentioned before, M love field guides, and we’ve been working our way through all the National Audubon Field Guides at the library. Last week, I was perusing the new arrivals shelf, and I found National Audubon’s Bird, The Definitive Visual Guide.
It is an amazingly gorgeous book filled with glossy colored pages of [...]
Non-fiction Monday: Wildflowers Around the Year
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, tagged children's books, science, wildflowers on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
M is having a blast looking at all the flowers that have sprung up everywhere now, and she is eagerly awaiting sprouts in her own garden. We recently checked out Wildflowers Around the Year by Hope Ryden and M loved looking through it. If she had it in her hands I knew I’d be called [...]
Usborne Beginners: Horses and Ponies
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, reading on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
M is pony-crazed so we’ve read lots of books both fiction and non-fiction about horses and ponies. Horses and Ponies from the Usborne Beginners series was one of the first non-fiction titles we chose when M’s horse and pony obsession blossomed around age 3. It provides simple information about different types of horses, [...]
Non-Fiction Monday: Grandma Elephant’s in Charge
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, picture books on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On one of our library visits a few weeks ago, we discovered Grandma Elephant’s in Charge by Martin Jenkins. We checked it out and ended up reading it over and over. The text is written like a story with additional factual notes about elephants. M and I both learned lots of new things [...]
Non-Fiction Monday: What Happens To A Hamburger
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, picture books, tagged digestion, picture books, science on March 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
M has been interested in anatomy for some time and we’ve checked out lots of books about the body and it’s different systems. She is particularly fascinated by digestion so we’ve read a lot of books about it and one of my favorites is What Happens to a Hamburger which is part of the [...]
