Nonfiction Monday

Every Monday, bloggers in the KidLitosphere (yes, that is a word -- not only a word but it's a whole group gathered together on YahooGroups to discuss blogging about children's literature) hold an event called Nonfiction Monday.

ON this day readers of children's nonfiction, parents and teachers and whomever, can read reviews of new children's nonfiction books simply by following the links on the Nonfiction Monday blog post.

Today, Nonfiction Monday is here.
As the day progresses, more and more links will be posted here, so do keep checking back (or come back on Tuesday).


The first link is to NC Teacher Stuff where Jeff Barger has examined Mozart: the Boy who Changed the World with his Music. This book was written by Marcus Weeks and published by National Geographic Kids, 2013.  (It certainly looks like a National Geographic book, what with that yellow border and all.)

Reshama Deshmukh at the Stacking Books blog is featuring What Charlie Heard by Mordicai Gerstein. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers in 2002. She saw it at the library and her children demanded they bring it home -- again.

Razia's Ray of Hope by Elizabeth Suneby, was published by Kids Can Press just a few days ago -- September 1, 2013! And the blog, Perogies & Goyoza has already reviewed it. It's about a girl's struggle to get educated in Afghanistan.

For different ways to look at Albert Einstein, click on over to The Swimmer Writer. The first book considered is On a Beam of Light: A story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne, published by Chronicle Books, 2013.  The second is Albert Einstein: Brilliant Scientist by Amanda Tourville, published by Magic Wagon Books, a division of ABDO Publishing, 2013.

Sue Heavenrich over at Sally's Bookshelf wants you to sharpen your observation skills and learn about ecosystems with  Hide-and-Seek Science: Animal Camouflage by Emma Stevenson, published by Holiday House, 2013.

There's a craft book at the Jean Little Library called Fun With Nature by Annalees Lin, published by Windmill books, 2013.

And over at Randomly Reading,  Alex has featured a picture book for older readers about the rescue and rehabilitation of a Chinese Moon Bear named Jasper:   Jasper's Story: Saving Moon Bears by Jill Robinson and Mark Bekoff, published by Sleeping Bear Press, 2013.

Anastasia Suen talks about Showtime: Meet the People Behind the Scene by Kevin Sylvester, published by Annick Press, at her Booktalking blog.

For those interested in STEM, Roberta looks at Hi-Tech Clothes by Richard Spilsbury, published by Heinemann, 2013 at the Wrapped in Foil blog.

Ha!  Now here's a book that I've had requests for -- over at Check It Out you'll find Electrical Wizard, How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World, by Elizabeth Rusch, published by Candlewick Press, 2013.

There's a bit of excitement over at The Booklist blog, Bookends. Cyndy and Lynn are checking out The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spys and Survivors Captured the World's most Notorious Nazi, by Neil Bascomb, published by Scholastic, 2013. Lynn says it has all the breathless suspense of a best selling spy thriller, and yet it's all true. They even help you make the Common Core connections with this book.

Tammy at the Apples with Many Seeds blog reviews the beautiful handmade book from India, Waterlife by Rambharos Jha, published by Tara Books, 2012.

Zooborns: the Next Generation -- Newer, Cuter, More Exotic Animals from the World's Zoos and Aquariums , by Andrew Bleiman and Chris Eastland, published by Simon & Schuster, 2012 is discussed at SonderBooks blog -- an incredibly cute kid-pleaser.

Nonfiction Monday is HERE!

If you are a fan of nonfiction, keep checking back to this blog post.
All day long I'll be collecting links to posts all over the KidLithosphere that you can click on to reach all sorts of interesting nonfiction -- books, articles, and blog posts.

By Tuesday morning, I should have quite a long roundup here.
Enjoy.
-wo

To kick us off, Lisa at Shelf Employed is relieved that Finally there's a New Book featuring the career of Librarianship -- A Day with Librarians by Jodie Shepherd, coming out from Scholastic 2013.

Tara at A Teaching Life shares two books she uses all the time:
1)  Shh! We're Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz, illustrated by Tomie de Paola originally published by Harcourt Houghton Mifflin, which shows all the juicy backstabbing stories, the secret agreements and deals (you wanna know just why certain things were left out of the Constitution?) and the heated arguments... Hey, it sounds just like politics today.

2) She uses Pricilla Cumming's Red Kayak to teach many strategies of reading realistic fiction and recognizing plot structure. (available in paperback from Puffin Books.)

Poet Laura Salas reviewed a poetry book (of course) on her blog -- Eight Days Gone by from Charlesbridge, 2012.  Its a rhyming picture book that tells the tale of the first lunar landing and is perfect for any kids who are nuts about science.

Wow, did you know that there are people who run shelters for abused city chickens? Louise at Nonfiction Detectives discovered that this is what the book, City Chickens, by Christine Heppermann (Houghton Mifflin, 2012) is all about.

Amy at Hope Is the Word talks about Island, a Story of the Galapagos written and illustrated by Jason Chin, a new book at Roaring Brook Press, 2012.  Fascinating story of the evolution of these islands from their volcanic birth to their eventual disappearance, including the development of variations of life on them.

Two books about Abraham Lincoln are reviewed by Alice at Supratentorial. Lincoln Tells a Joke by Kathleen Krull and Paul Brewer focuses on Lincoln's sense of humor while What Lincoln Said is a picture book biography.

Jennifer at the Jean Little Library blog brings our attention to Moonbird by Philip Hoose which follows this bird's year long trip as it flies practically around the world -- from Tierra del Fuego near the South Pole all the way to the Arctic in the north.

Although most sea birds lay their eggs on a rocky shore or in a burrow, author/ illlustrator Joan Dunning discovered one that does not.  Deborah at The Swimmer Writer blog reviewed Joan's book: Seabird in the Forest, the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet, published by  Boyds Mill Press, 2011.

Oh boy.  I love holidays, don't you?  Then you might enjoy the gorgeous Lighting Our World:  A Year of Celebrations by Catherine Rondina illustrated by Jacqui Oakley, published by Kids Can Press, 2012. You'll find Perogyo's review for it over on the Perogies and Gyoza, adventures in books and bilingualism blog.

Sue at Archimedes Notebook checked out tales of animal tails today with What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Sounds like FUN.

Over at True Tales and a Cherry on Top, Jeanne features the impossibly wonderful Magritte's Marvelous Hat which was inspired by a real person -- the surrealist artist Rene Magritte. Written and illustrated by J.B. Johnson, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2012.

Lynn Rutan at the Bookends blog reviewed How to Raise Monarch Butterflies: a Step-by-Step Guide for Kids by Carol Pasternak, published by Firefly, 2012.  Like her, I also tried getting butterflies to hatch in my library and would have found this book to be very useful to have on display near the cocoons while we waited, and waited, and waited for them to hatch.  (We gave prizes to the people who guessed the closest to the date when the butterflies would emerge.)

Shirley at the Simply Science blog didn't just review a book -- she asked the author, Darcy Pattison to be a guest blogger today, TALKING about how she researched her book, Desert Baths (Sylvan Dell, 2012 illustrated by Kathleen Reitz), and the animals she met. How did she manage to include the desert Tarantula in her book even though it never needs to take a bath?  Click on over to see.

All About the Books with Janet Squires reviews The 13 Nights of Halloween, written and Illustrated by Guy Vasilovich (Harper, 2011).  Inspired by The 12 Days of Christmas, Vasilovich gives his young readers a ghoulish countdown to Halloween. "On the first day of Halloween, my mummy gave to me...."  Ooooh, I like it already.

A review of The Emily Sonnets: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Jne Yolen and Illustrated by Gary Kelley is at the Wrapped in Foil blog today. This is a lovely book of 16 sonnets that reveal the life of poet Emily Dickinson.  Should this book be shelved in biographies (a picture book biography), or in the poetry section of your library?  Roberta's review makes the case for both.  What do you think?

Just in time for the World Series playoffs, Iron Guy Carl has reviews of two baseball books on his Boys Rule Boys Read blog:
1) Ballpark written and illustrated by Lynn Curlee, Athenum, 2005. Are all ballparks the same?  Not according to this book. Ballpark stadiums are a vital part of baseball and yet they are hardly ever shown or mentioned on TV. But your avid baseball fan will love knowing all the background facts revealed here.

2) Heroes of Baseball: The Men Who Made It America's Favorite Game by Robert Lipstye, Athenum, 2005. Why did nobody like Ty Cobb, even though he was probably the greatest baseball player who ever lived? Hey, did you know that Yogi Berra was not his real name.  You can find this out and much much more in this book about famous and not-so-famous baseball players.

That's All Folks.  Thank you for coming.
wo

Nonfiction Monday is HERE!

Welcome to Nonfiction Monday, the day when kid lit bloggers talk about nonfiction books for children and for you and me.  (They're all good.)  During the day I'll be adding to this list so do come back and check all the links out this evening.


First up is Jone MacCulloch on the blog, Check it Out, Life and Books in a K5 Library School Setting who encourages us to Get the Scoop on Animal Poop! by Dawn Cusick. Ya know? I had that very question a year or so ago in my library , except the boy was asking for 'animal scat.'  I could have used this book then.


Fats writes a review on Sawdust and Spangles: The Amazing Life of W. C. Coup by Ralph Covert and G. Riley Mills illustrated by Giselle Potter at the blog, Gathering Books. This blog entry must get the prize for most illustrated post.  Go see for yourself. 
Actually, I think I have the blog writer's name wrong here.  On the blog it has a smiley face after it like this --  fats:)


Mary Ann Scheuer at Great Kids Books shares How Did That Get in My Lunchbox? by Chris Butterworth. She says that she loves the informative but encouraging tone of this look at how food travels from the farm to our table. And, oh my goodness, she inserted the Google preview of the book into her blog. Great idea.


Roberta Gibson has a review of Stranger at Home, a True Story on her blog, Wrapped In Foil. It's a sequel to the memoir, Fatty Legs. In Stranger at Home, a young Inuit girl tells about her life when she returns home only to find her life at a boarding school had changed her.


Amy at Hope is the Word has a review of Yucky Worms by Vivian French, which although it's a story about grandmother planting a garden, has lots of worm information to fascinate the child in the story -- and the child reader, too.


Over at A Teaching Life, Tara features Meadowlands, A Wetland Story an inspiring tale about how New Jersey discovered the importance of wetlands and restored the Meadowlands near New York City. She also reviewed Allan Drummond's Energy Island: How one Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed Their World, and a biography of the poet Pablo Neruda, plus a picture book story about a child finding his family again during the aftermath of the civil war. 


Over at Jean Little Library (Don't cha just love a blog and a library with the name of a popular children's book author?), Jennifer takes a look at The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont, another "inventor" of airplanes during that rush-to-the-sky era in the early 20th century. This book takes three fictionalized looks at turning points in his life, but does have an extensive nonfiction author's note.


Shirley Duke who blogs at the Simply Science Blog -- Books and Simple Science Lessons, reviews Laura Purdie Salas' newest book of poetry, A Leaf Can Be, which is full of leaf facts both in the poetry and in the back matter.


Lisa at Shelf Employed has a conundrum.  She offers you the trailer for Suryia and Roscoe, the True Story of an Unlikely Friendship (very cute) by Dr. Bhagavan Antle, Barry Bland and Thea Feldman-- a book she considers nonfiction but the Library of Congress classification for it is fiction.  Stay tuned to her blog to see if she gets an answer from the publisher about this conundrum.


Oh goodie -- a new book about houses around the world! Alice at Supratentorial gives us If You Lived Here by Giles Larouche, illustrated with bas-relief paper cut collage. 


True Tales and a Cherry on Top, Jeanne Walker Harvey's blog, offers a patriotic theme with a biography of Betsy Ross in 64 words, which continues the legend of the five-pointed star.


Jeff Barger at his NC Teacher Stuff blog posted a review of A Warmer World by Caroline Arnold. (I don't know about your neighborhood, but this has been the warmest January on record here in Maryland which makes this book right on target discussing global change.) 


At the Apples with Many Seeds blog Tammy Flanders is looking at The Force Born of Truth, Mohandas Gandhi and the Salt March by Betsy Kuhn, one of a series of books for highschoolers about civil rights movements around the world.


All About the Books with Janet Squires has mind-stretching math riddles in the Grapes of Math by Greg Tang.


Wow -- There's a Marvelous Middle Grade Nonfiction Guy Monday (don't you just love that blog post title) over at Ms. Yingling Reads, books for middle school students especially boys. She has the lowdown on two books on Forensics: Police Forensics by Adam Sutherland (NF) and she partners it with a fiction book -- Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator by Josh Berk. 


The Biblio phile, written by Jeannie (Librarian ninja, among other things), features a National Geographic Kids book: Tornato, The Story Behind these Twisting, Turning, Spinning and Spiraling Storms by that famous writer team of Judith Bloom Frandin and Denis Brindell Frandin.


Sibert Award Winner, Marc Aronson, talks about his newest book-- Master of Deceit: J. Edgar Hoover and America in the Age of Lies over at the NonFiction Book Blast blog. If you are going to attend the June meeting of ALA, be sure to plan to be at the Nonfiction Book Blast presentation to meet a lot of your favorite nonfiction writers and hear about their new books. (and then go to their publisher's booth to get copies signed by them.) Of course, the other reason to go to ALA this summer is that it's at Disneyland. Take your family and enjoy both books and the amusement park.


Over at Booktalking Children's Books, Anastasia Suen brings our attention to two books: Polar Bears by Mark Newman, and Sky Sailors, True Stories of the Balloon Era by David L. Bristow.


We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson got a smashing review on the blog, Laurie Thompson -- Inspiring and Empowering Young Changemakers. She says, "It's a Must Read!"


Bookends, a blog on the magazine, Booklist Online, has a review of The Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the True Story of an American Feud, by Suzanne Tripp Jurman. The reviewer today is Lynn Rutan.


The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families by Susan L. Roth and Cyndy Trumbore is the featured book at The Swimmer Writer today.


Allison Hamer at Better with a Book says that Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature written by Joyce Sidman invites us to look at the world around us a little differently. 


I was cleaning out my Spam Filter today (Friday) and discovered another Nonfiction Monday announcement had been caught there. So sorry that this entry is late.
 Heidi Grange at Geo Librarian featured Kubla Kahn, Emperor of Everything by Kathleen Krull. 

Nonfiction Monday is Here Today

I'm collecting links today of the Nonfiction Monday reviews of great nonfiction books for kids and other nonfiction posts of interest. Since I will be adding more and more links during the day, do check back this evening to see them all.

If you are interested in writing nonfiction, these links might interest you:

Rosi Holinbeck wrote about the Highlights Foundation Non-Fiction Workshop with Peter Jacobi on her blog, The Write Stuff. I know several people who have attended this workshop and can't recommend it highly enough. If you can possibly manage to attend one of these, your writing surely will improve.

Another author, Melissa Higgins, is writing a series of posts about a nonfiction Work for Hire project she's working on. If you are interested in seeing the process, click on this blog link and then come back in the next weeks as well to explore her thoughts about this project at MG Higgins.

Of course, my favorite nonfiction writer's blog is I.N.K. Interesting Nonfiction for Kids.

Here are the book reviews:

Sue, at Archimedes Notebook has posted a review of Up, Up and Away, a story of a spiderlings journey written by Ginger Wadsworth. (Oh Ginger, you KNOW my reaction to spiders!)

Jeff Barger at NC Teacher Stuff has a post about Medieval Life.

Jennifer at Jean Little Library has a review of The Secret Lives of Backyard Bugs.

Amy at Hope is the Word liked the new Chris Van Allsburg book, Queen of the Falls, today.

Amanda at A Patchwork of Books reviewed Friends: True Stories of Extraordinary Animal Friends.

Over at the blog, Apples with Many Seeds, Tammy has posted about two sports books from the series, RecordBooks. ONe is a biography of Jordin Tootoo, the first Inuit to play in the National Hockey League. The second book is more historical, Tough Guys, which looks at hockey in the early 1900s and the impact of WWI and the Spanish Flu on the teams and league.

Rebecca at The Joy of Literacy reviewed a fun book -- POP! The Invention of Bubble Gum.

There's a review of Come See the Earth Turn at Bookmuse today.

Jeanne Walker Harvey wrote about All Aboard! a picture book biography that features Elijah McCoy, the son of slaves who dreamed of becoming (and did become) a mechanical engineer and inventor of improvements for the railroads over at True Tales & a Cherry On Top.

Roberta at Wrapped in Foil enjoyed the hands-on science book The Klutz Guide to the Galaxy.

At Geo Librarian, Heidi reviewed Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

Mermaid Queen: the Spectacular true story of Annette Kellerman, who swam her way to fame, fortune, & swimsuit history! is the featured book on All About Books with Janet Squires.

And that's Nonfiction Monday for this week.

-wendieOld

Nonfiction Monday is Here

Today is Monday and that means the bloggers are reviewing children's nonfiction books today. Here's a sampling. Click on the links and enjoy. And keep checking back because I'll be adding more links every few hours:

Jeanlittlelibrary has a review of Bug Zoo by Nick Baker.

Mary Ann Scheuer's blog at Great Kids Books this morning is a bit different from the usual. Instead of recommending a great book for kids, she is sharing a most useful resource for parents: Getting to Calm: Cool-headed strategies for parenting tweens and teens, by Laura Kastner and Jennifer Wyatt. She says, "It's been a great resource to me as I've entered the water of parenting a moody, temperamental tween!" Since I also have a tween in the house, I'd better check it out, myself.

Over at NCTEACHERSTUFF, Jeff Barger has reviewed Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness into Light written by Tim Tingle; illustrated by Karen Clarkson.

Charlotte from Charlotte's Library is in with What Goes On In My Head? How your brain works and why you do what you do, by Robert Winston.

There's a real treat over at Shelf Employed -- an interactive interview with Janice Weaver, author of Hudson, a biography of Henry Hudson. Join in the interview and ask your own questions!

Sarah at In Need of Chocolate says she has reviewed two books on Egypt: Pharaoh's Boat and The Great Pyramid.

Anastasia Suen is enjoying Into the Deep: The Life of Naturalist and Explorer William Beebe by David Sheldon at Picture Book of the Day.

Angela Craft at Bookish Blather has a review of Russell Freedman's stunning The War to End All Wars.

Over at Playing by the Book, is a review of Where Does The Poo Go? by Caren Trafford, illustrated by Jade Oakley.

There's a review of Insects: Biggest! Littlest! written by Sandra Markle at the Wild About Nature blog.

Shirley at SimplyScience today discusses the classification of Protists by Steve Parker. What are Protists? You'll have to check out her blog to find out.

This is Banned Book Week and MsMac over at MacLibrary talks about her experience with book banning.

Margo at the Fourth Musketeer reviews a new edition of the picture book, Old Abe, Eagle Hero: The Civil War's Most Famous Mascot, by Patrick Young.

The Allen County Public Library (in Indiana)will be holding their Mock Sibert discussion and Election on December 11. All sorts of great books are on the discussion list. Mandy invites all of you to please click here to add your voice to the discussion in the comment section of the ACPL Mock Sibert blog.

Carol Hinz points out that today at the Lerner books blog, she is kicking off a week focused on Rebecca L. Johnson's new book Journey into the Deep: Discovering New Ocean Creatures.

Wow, Becky has reviewed two books at two different blogs:
At Becky's Book Reviews, she has Liberty or Death by Margaret Whitman Blair.
And at Young Readers she reviews Lost Boy by Jane Yolen.

Lynne Marie on My Word Playground features a a spark of inspiration for nonfiction writers. It's a writing prompt from nonfiction author, Lori Mortensen, whose nonfiction book, COME SEE THE EARTH TURN: The Story of Foucault's Pendulum, just came out. The interview also features another of her non-fiction books,In the Trees, Honey Bees!

Tammy Flanders at Apples with Many Seeds looks at the book Kakapo Rescue: saving the world’ strangest parrot by Sy Montgomery.

At The Cat & The Fiddle, Michelle Markel explores the many possibilities of picture book biographies.

Middle-school librarian, Cindy Dobrez at the Booklist blog, "Bookends," is reviewing Young Zeus by G. Brian Karas this week.

Jennie at Biblio File analyzed a book for adults who work with children's literature, From the Beast to the Blonde: on Fairy Tales and their Tellers by Marina Warner.

Janet Squires at All about the Books with Janet Squires selected I Spy Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwait.

Tina Nichols Coury ­ at Tales From the Rushmore Kid interviews author Vicki Oransky Wittenstein, where she describes what
inspired her to write about astronomer Geoff Macy. The title of her book is Planet Hunter: Geoff Marcy and the Search for Other Earths.

And, there's even a PODcast.

Children's NF author Mary Kay Carson talked about her new Scientists in the Field book, The Bat Scientists, on a local NPR radio show over the weekend called Field Notes with Thane Maynard, director of the Cincinnati Zoo.
Click here for The Bat Scientists author, Mary Kay Carson's interview. (I hope these links work.)

Nonfiction Monday -- Roundup is here

The Roundup of all the Nonfiction Monday reviews is right here at Wendie's Wanderings today.

First -- I just this minute heard that Tanya Lee Stone was awarded the ALA Nonfiction 2010 Sibert award for her wonderful book, Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream! Hurrah! I Love that book!

Here is the official ALA announcement of the Sibert Nonfiction Awards:
Robert F. Sibert Medal for most distinguished informational book for children:
“Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream,” written by Tanya Lee Stone, is the Sibert Award winner. The book is published by Candlewick Press.

Three Sibert Honor Books were named:
--“The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors,” written by Chris Barton, illustrated by Tony Persiani and published by Charlesbridge;
--“Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11,” written and illustrated by Brian Floca, and published by Richard Jackson/Atheneum Books for Young Readers;
-- and “Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice,” written by Phillip Hoose and published by Melanie Kroupa/Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.

And the YALSA Nonfiction 2010 (for teen readers) is Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman. Excellent research. Excellent book.

The Coretta Scott King Author 2010: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, author of Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal.

One of the Newbery Honor Books is also a Nonfiction book, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose. (Yea! Two awards in one day -- plus the National Book Award. WOW!)

A nonfiction author got the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults:
Jim Murphy is the 2010 Edwards Award winner.
His books include: “An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793,” published by Clarion Books; (Yea, Clarion!) I think this is the one that also won the James Madison Award in addition to a Sibert.
“Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America,” published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic;
“The Great Fire,” published by Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic;
“The Long Road to Gettysburg,” published by Clarion Books;
and “A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy,” published by Clarion Books.
-- Hey, Jim is young yet. He'll be producing many more books.
Problem.
I"m already registered for ALA and neglected to sign up for the Margaret A Edwards banquet. Gotta go change that.

A Caldecott Nonfiction honor book is Red Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Joyce Sidman. The Caldecott goes to the Illustrator. There is no ALA award for the writer of a picture book. (I'm just saying.)


(I'll post the other winners as I learn them. Please point out any nonfiction ALA winners that I've missed -- they're all winners to me -- in the comments section of this blog and I'll add them to this post.)


And here are the other blogs you gotta go read today:
This week Kim Hutmacher at the Wild About Nature blog, has a review of Under the Snow by Melissa Stewart.

Sarah at In Need of Chocolate has reviewed Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story by Lisa Westberg Peters.

Amanda Snow at A Patchwork of Books has a review of The Wonders Inside Bugs & Spiders.

Lori Calabrese at at Lori Calabrese Writes! highlights a few nonfiction Martin Luther King, Jr. titles in celebration of the federal holiday honoring his birthday.

Roberta at Wrapped in Foil has a review of the fun nonficton book, Animal Tongues by Dawn Cusick.

Shirley Smith Duke at SimplyScience has a review of Arctic Foxes. By Carri Stuhr.

Anna is finding out Who Was First? Discovering the Americas by Russell Freedman on her Lost Between The Pages blog.

Susan has an overview of the Orbis Pictus winners at Chicken Spaghetti.

 The Orbis Pictus awards are given by the National Council of Teachers of English.

Becky Laney at Young Readers (zero to eight) reviewed The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak. By Tomek Bogacki.

Jone at Check It Out discovered that two of the Sibert winners were also chosen as Cybils nonfiction picturebook finalists.

Over at Shelf Employed is a review of Years of Dust by Albert Marrin.

Bri over at Bri Meets Books reviewed Animal Rights: How You Can Make a Difference.

-wendie Old