Rounding up the best nonfiction for children and teens
What’s Inside a Computer Mouse?
by Arnold Ringstad (Author)
Booktalk: See all of the parts inside a computer mouse and find how they work together to make the mouse function.
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At Wrapped in Foil Blog today we have the lovely picture book Seeds Move! by Robin Page.
Written in the increasingly popular two-level text, Seeds Move! explores many of the ways seeds move or disperse.
The simpler, “story” text repeats rhythmically from page to page:
A seed hitchhikes.
A seed shoots.
A seed catapults…
A paragraph of denser, detailed text explains the specific examples shown in each illustration.
And what beautiful illustrations they are. It is easy to see why Robin Page received a Caldecott Honor in 2004 for What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
If you are looking for a nonfiction picture book about seed dispersal, look no further than Seeds Move! Young readers will plant themselves in their chairs when they open this book.
Check the blog for a longer review and activity suggestions.
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Soccer Superstar Alex Morgan
by Jon M. Fishman (Author)
Booktalk: For beginning readers who know about the 2019 Women’s World Cup, this short biography will provide more information about soccer superstar Alex Morgan. She helped the US Women’s National Team to victory in the 2012 Olympics and the 2015 Women’s World Cup.
The 2019 win isn’t in the book, giving you the opportunity to talk about how books change over time, a new concept for emerging readers.
Today is #WomensEqualityDay!
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We Go on a School Bus
by Joanne Mattern (Author)
Booktalk: Back to school means new experiences. One may be the first ride on a school bus. See what that is like in this Ways We Go book.
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Airplanes
by Wendy Strobel Dieker (Author)
Booktalk: This search-and-find book invites early readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about airplanes and how they fly.
Today is Orville Wright’s birthday, celebrated as National Aviation Day since FDR proclaimed it so in 1939.
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Mammals! (Explorer)
by Nick Forshaw (Author) and William Exley (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Be on the look-out for the wildest of mammals with Agent Osprey as she explores the animal kingdom in search of all things fierce and friendly! Inside the back cover is a six-foot-long fold-out timeline, featuring over 100 mammals from their first known forms to their living descendants that looks at how they have survived and thrived.
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Things Up Close
by Alice Boynton (Author)
Booktalk: View common objects–a pencil, sponge, toothbrush, and seashell–from a new perspective and learn uncommon facts about each one. (Bread was used as a eraser?!)
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I See the Ocean
by Katie Peters (Author)
Booktalk: Dive beneath the waves to meet the crab, fish, turtles, whales, and seaweed that live in the ocean habitat with this beginning reader.
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Football’s G.O.A.T.: Jim Brown, Tom Brady, and More
by Joe Levit (Author)
Booktalk: Prepare to tackle the toughest question in football: Who is the greatest of all time? See the evidence for yourself then learn how to research your own G.O.A.T. list.
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