Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, arts and crafts, non-fiction on December 13, 2009 | 20 Comments »
Every Monday, kidlit bloggers celebrate some of the fantastic non-fiction available for kids and teens. I’m excited to be 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 selection for today is 50 Things to Draw and Paint. I [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, non-fiction, reading on December 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We picked up Bubble Homes and Fish Farts by Fiona Bayrock from the library. We’ve recently done several experiments with bubbles and watched an awesome video of dolphins playing with bubbles so I knew M would love it.
The balance of text and illustrations was perfect. M wanted to hear every word, and the illustrations and [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, cybils, non-fiction, reading on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Flamingos by Jean M. Malone is an Easy Reader nominee for the 2009 Cybils. It’s part of the All Aboard Science Reader series. The book is well-written and filled with fascinating facts about these iconic pink birds.
Among other things, I learned that the high level of carotene in their diet turns flamingos’ feathers pink and [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, non-fiction, reading on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
M has loved the Magic Tree House series for several years but we’ve only just begun to use the Research Guides that accompany some of the books. Last week, taking a chapter at a time, we read Pilgrims (Magic Tree House Research Guide #13). This is a companion to Thanksgiving on Thursday which we “re-read” [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, non-fiction, reading on November 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We found Dinosaurs in Your Backyard: The Coolest, Scariest, Creatures Ever Found in the USA by Hugh Brewster on the new books shelf at the library. M loved the cover picture of a roaring dinosaur in front of a suburban neighborhood and the idea of learning about dinosaurs who might have lived where we live [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, homeschool, non-fiction, reading on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’d read many positive reviews of The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History and I’d been looking forward to checking it out when we were ready to use it. I requested it from the library last week, and I was pleasantly surprised to see what a large portion was devoted to prehistory since that’s what [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, non-fiction, picture books, reading on November 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m making plans for a prehistory/evolution study with 6yo M, so when I saw Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution by Steve Jenkins on top of a library shelf, I grabbed it. C (2yo) saw it in the library bag and asked me to read it, so the three of us sat down and [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, non-fiction, picture books, reading on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What Makes A Magnet? by Franklyn Branley is another title from the excellent Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. M and I checked it out and did several of the suggested experiments a few years ago, but she remembered it recently and asked me to get it again. She’s been wanting to do some magnet experimen,t but she [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, non-fiction, reading on October 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I picked up Reign of the Sea Dragons by Sneed B. Collard from the New Arrivals shelf at our library. I thought M would enjoy the descriptions of prehistoric sea creatures and their evolution since she is fascinated by large creatures of the sea and dinosaurs. The inside cover has shows a scaled comparison of [...]
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, non-fiction on October 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We love the Let’s Read and Find Out Science series and we’ve read many many of the titles. One of our favorites is Dinosaur Babies by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld. Both my girls are particularly fond of Maisaura due in part to one of their favorite Diego episodes, but also because they stayed by their nest [...]
