Explore New Territory

Finding books for last week's featured America reviews took me way out of my library comfort zone. I love a good story, so I usually stick pretty close to the fiction aisles. But you know what? I had a great time roaming in the kids nonfiction section! I found all kinds of great selections there, including poetry, history, biographies and more. And during my wandering, I was reminded that some of the best stories of all are ones that actually happened. So if your library is like ours and separates kids fiction and non-fiction, make sure to take some time this summer and expand your library territory. How about you? What are some of your favorite non-fiction books for kids?

Comments

[debnance]

I tend to push the Kathleen Krull biographies, Seymour Simon science books, anything from Picture Window, cookbooks, and the So You Want to Be series.

They tend to go for the car books, the graphic novels, dinosaurs, and fairy tales.

I'm in an elementary library, PreK to 5.

[Lori Bailey]

Thanks for the great recommendations! I used to volunteer in my son's school library and chuckled when you mentioned the books they go for - so true! I'd add snakes to that ;)