Tag: nonfiction picture book challenge
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Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge 2017 #nfpb2017
Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge has long been one of my favorite annual reading challenges, but I never got my blogging act in gear in 2016 to participate in weekly posts. (Though I did do plenty of reading: check out my list of 10 favorite nonfiction picture books from 2016). I’d like to do…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Twenty Titles for Upper Elementary #nfpb2015
Kid Lit Frenzy hosts my favorite reading challenge, the 2015 Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit her blog to discover more wonderful nonfiction titles. This week’s list was inspired by a pre-service teacher taking my online Children’s Literature class. Savannah is reading picture books for our class and enjoying them but wants to be sure she’s…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Noah Webster and His Words #nfpb2015
Visit Kid Lit Frenzy to learn about more wonderful nonfiction picture books. My first nonfiction picture book of 2015 is Jeri Chase Ferris’s biography of Noah Webster, best known today for writing the dictionary that still bears his name. Writing a dictionary might not seem like a very lively pursuit to some young readers, but Noah…
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2015 Reading Challenges and #MustReadin2015 List
How I love cooking up reading challenges and planning a year of reading! I don’t always stick to the plan, but for ardent readers, there is a great deal of pleasure in making reading plans. I’ve decided to join a few challenges in 2015, create one challenge of my own, and commit to 31 titles…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Josephine #nfpb2014
My favorite reading challenge in 2014 is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. This week, I’ll also be linking my post to Aarti’s #Diversiverse Reading Challenge. If you read and review diverse books between September 14-27, consider adding your review to Aarti’s link-up. And even if you don’t link up, this challenge is a…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Sit-In 9/3/14 #nfpb2014
My favorite reading challenge is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit her blog to discover more wonderful nonfiction titles. Andrea Davis Pinkney’s Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down uses free verse to tell the story of four courageous African-American college students whose peaceful protest at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday #nfpb2014
I’m participating in Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit her blog to learn more about the incredible variety of nonfiction picture books. After my older son came home from school complaining that the only time he learns about the achievements and history of African-Americans is when the focus is on slavery or civil…
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Shackleton’s Journey #nfpb2014 4/23/14
One of my favorite reading challenges this year is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit her blog to learn more about the fantastic diversity of nonfiction picture books. I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t just a little bit in love with Ernest Shackleton and the story of the Endurance. What a…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: The Scraps Book #nfpb2014
I’m participating in Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit her blog to find out more! Lois Ehlert is one important children’s book author and illustrator I need to be more familiar with. While I admire her books, I don’t love them. But I’ve started reading and rereading, hoping that I’m going to fall…
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My Favorite Animal: The Cheetah #nfpb2014
It’s Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday! Visit Kid Lit Frenzy to learn about the challenge and find out about more great nonfiction picture books. My new nonfiction picture book obsession is Suzi Eszterhas’s Eye on the Wild series about baby animals. Granted, I’ve only read one book in the series so far, Cheetah, but it was so…
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