Nonfiction Recommendations
February 04, 2007
The National Council of Teachers of English provides good reading suggestions in the form of its Orbis Pictus award, which "recognizes excellence in the writing of nonfiction for children." The 2007 list is as follows:
Winner
Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea
Honorable Mentions
Gregor Mendel: The Friar Who Grew Peas
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott*
John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon*
Recommended Books
An Egg Is Quiet*
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement
Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship
Onward: A Photobiography of African-American Polar Explorer Matthew Henson
Rescues!
The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin
Construction Zone
The asterisk* indicates books that are also Cybils nonfiction nominees.
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