Nonfiction Monday: Celebrating Women’s History Month
“I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.~~Amelia Earhart March is Women’s History...
View ArticleNonfiction Monday: Dinosaurs in Your Backyard
A big box of books arrived on my doorstep a couple of weeks ago. Among a new poetry book by Lee Bennett Hopkins, the sequel to The Library Mouse, and others was a new nonfiction book on dinosaurs....
View ArticleNon-Fiction Monday: William Carlos Williams
I love the poem “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams. I was thrilled to receive a copy of his biography, River of Words by Jan Bryant, last fall during the CYBILS judging. River of...
View ArticleNonfiction Monday: Pavlov’s Elephant
No, I have not mixed up the days. I know this is Monday. I know this is the day reserved for nonfiction. Thank goodness poetry is non-fiction. I must talk about the book of poetry I stumbled into...
View ArticleNon-Fiction Monday: Meet Janet Halfmann
Last fall I was privileged to read Seven Miles to Freedom: The Robert Smalls Story . It was a CYBILS nominee in the Nonfiction Picture Book category. Have you read it? What a wonderful story of...
View ArticleNon-Fiction Monday: Shape
My four and a half year old grand-daughter visited on Saturday. It was a perfect day for sitting on the patio swing and reading books together. It marked the first time she sat and listened to not...
View ArticleNon-Fiction Monday: Yellow Star
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy is a rare blend of poetry and memoir. Roy has retold the story of aunt Sylvia, one of 12 children who survived the Lodz ghetto during World War II. The story is broken up...
View ArticleWangari’s Trees of Peace and the WCCPBA
I am thrilled that the Washington Children’s Choice Picture Book Award (WCCPBA) has several of the nonfiction books from last year’s CYBILS Nonfiction Picture Book nominee list. It is a vast...
View ArticleNon-Fiction Monday: Night Sky
So last week a student came to me and asked, “Do you have a book with a camp for watching the total eclipse and a boy named Jack?” I raised my eyebrows because it just did not sound familiar. Asked...
View ArticleNon-fiction Monday: Constitution, Banned Book Week, and Bill of Rights
This is “Banned Book Week”. I love teaching about this week to fifth graders. It gives me an opportunity to tie in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights at a level of their understanding. Today, I...
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