Non-Fiction Reviews

A Seed Needs Sun

A Seed Needs Sun

Kate Riggs
Illustrator:  Fiammetta Dogi 
Nonfiction Board Book
For ages 3 to 5
Creative Editions, 2014   ISBN: 978-1568462547
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Nature in the Neighborhood

Nature in the Neighborhood

Gordon Morrison
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 6 to 9
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008   ISBN: 978-0547015484
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Philip Reid Saves The Statue of Freedom

Philip Reid Saves The Statue of Freedom

Steven Sellers Lapham, Eugene Walton
Illustrator:  R. Gergory Christie 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 6 to 8
Sleeping Bear Press, 2013   ISBN: 978-1585368198
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Animal ABC

Animal ABC

Marcus Pfister
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 4 to 6
NorthSouth, 2013   ISBN: 978-0735841369
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The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery

The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery

Dennis Brindell Fradin, Judith Bloom Fradin
Illustrator:  Eric Velasquez 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 6 to 8
Walker Children's Books, 2013   ISBN: 978-0802721679
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A Zeal of Zebras: An Alphabet of Collective Nouns

A Zeal of Zebras: An Alphabet of Collective Nouns

Woop Studios
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 6 and up
Chronicle Books, 2011   ISBN: 978-1452104928
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A Log’s Life

A Log’s Life

Wendy Pfeffer
Illustrator:  Robin Brickman 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
Simon and Schuster, 2007   ISBN: 978-1416934837
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Nina's Book of Little Things

Nina's Book of Little Things

Nonfiction Drawing Book
For ages 6 to 8
Big Picture Press, 2013   ISBN: 978-0763668938
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Hooray For Inventors!

Hooray For Inventors!

Marcia Williams
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 8 to 11
Candlewick, 2013   ISBN: 978-0763667498
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The Cart That Carried Martin

The Cart That Carried Martin

Eve Bunting
Illustrator:   Don Tate 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 5 to 7
Charlesbridge, 2013   ISBN: 978-1580893879
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Paint It: The Art of Acrylics, Oils, Pastels, and Watercolors

Paint It: The Art of Acrylics, Oils, Pastels, and Watercolors

Mari Bolte
Nonfiction art book
For ages 11 and up
Capstone Press, 2013   ISBN: 978-1623700096
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What Mr Darwin Saw

What Mr Darwin Saw

Mick Manning, Brita Granstrom
Illustrator:  Mick Manning , Brita Granstrom 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 7 to 10
Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2009   ISBN: 978-1845079703
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Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper

Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper

Ann Malaspina
Illustrator:  Eric Velasquez 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 7 to 9
Albert Whitman & Company, 2012   ISBN: 978-0807580356
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Hey, Charleston! The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band

Hey, Charleston! The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band

Anne Rockwell
Illustrator:  Colin Bootman 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 7 to 9
Lerner Publishing, 2013   ISBN: 978-0761355656
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Louisa May's Battle: How the Civil War Led to <i>Little Women</i>

Louisa May's Battle: How the Civil War Led to Little Women

Kathleen Krull
Illustrator:  Carlyn Beccia 
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 7 to 9
Bloomsbury, 2013   ISBN: 978-0802796684
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