Tag: nonfiction picture book wednesday
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Top 10 Favorite Nonfiction of 2015
There are so many 2015 nonfiction picture book titles that I never got around to this year. If I had followed through on my reading plans, I have a feeling that this list might be very different. Still, in a year that felt like one long reading slump where I quit every reading challenge I…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Scarlett the Cat to the Rescue #nfpb2015
My favorite reading challenge is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit Alyson’s blog to discover more wonderful nonfiction titles. My regular readers know I feel about cats. I lurve them. In big piles or scatterings. Cats here and there, everywhere. And with six of them, it often does feel like cats here, there, everywhere,…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Boys of Steel #nfpb2015
One of my favorite reading challenges is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit Alyson’s blog to discover more wonderful nonfiction titles. Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman is an engaging, personable account of the creation of perhaps the world’s most famous superhero. The writer of the first Superman comic, Jerry Siegel, and…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Stand There! She Shouted #nfpb2015 5/13/15
My favorite reading challenge is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Visit her blog to discover more wonderful nonfiction titles. Stand There! She Shouted is Susan Goldman Rubin’s biography of nineteenth-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. It’s a wonderful book–full of engaging, informative writing and two types of illustrations: Cameron’s photographs and Bagram Ibatoulline’s paintings…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Do Re Mi #nfpb2015 4/29/15
Kid Lit Frenzy hosts my favorite reading challenge, Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday. Visit her blog to discover more wonderful nonfiction titles. Susan L. Roth’s collage and cut paper illustrations for Parrots over Puerto Rico would be on a top 5 picture book illustration list for me (how I love creating random top 5 and top…
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Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday: Brooklyn Bridge #nfpb2015
One of my favorite reading challenges is Kid Lit Frenzy’s Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge. Check out Alyson’s recommendations and follow the links in her post to find other reviews of other terrific nonfiction picture books. This week I read Lynn Curlee’s Brooklyn Bridge, a history of the construction of one of America’s most iconic structures…
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