Participating in the Nonfiction Picture Books Challenge was a fun reading inspiration again this year. Only eleven of my #nfpb15 reads were blogged, but I easily met my goal of twenty-five. And thanks to the wonderful reviews from our host Alyson and all the other participants, my to-be-read list is even longer!
Biographies & History
Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious by Jacqueline Briggs Martin; illustrated by Hayelin Choi
The Amazing Travels of Ibn Battuta by Fatima Sharafeddine; illustrated by Intelaq Mohammed Ali
Ben Franklin’s Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention by Barb Rosenstock; illustrated by S. D. Schindler
Dare the Wind: The Record-breaking Voyage of Eleanor Prentiss and the Flying Cloud by Tracey E. Fern; illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music by Margarita Engle
Enormous Smallness: A Story of e.e.cummings by Matthew Burgess; illustrated by Kris Di Giacomo
Gingerbread for Liberty! How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution by Mara Rockliff; illustrated by Vincent X. Kirsch
Goldie Takes a Stand: Golda Meir’s First Crusade by Barbara Krasner; illustrated by Kelsey Garrity-Riley
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America by Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrated by Jamey Christoph
The Inventor’s Secret by Suzanne Slade; illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt
John Muir Wrestles a Waterfall by Julie Danneberg
The Legend of Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching by Demi
Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France by Mara Rockliff; illustrated by Iacopo Bruno
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel by Kathryn Davis Gibbs; illustrated by Gilbert Ford
My Name is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth by Ann Turner; illustrated by James Ransome
Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegration by Duncan Tonatiuh
Stone Giant: Michelangelo’s David and How He Came to Be by Jane Sutcliffe; illustrated by John Shelley
Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova by Laurel Snyder; illustrated by Julie Morstad
The Pilot and the Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry by Peter Sis
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jennifer Fisher Bryant; illustrated by Melissa Sweet
Twenty-Two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank by Paula Yoo; illustrated by Jamel Akib
Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees by Franck Prévot; illustrated by Aurelia Fronty
Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh by Sally M. Walker; illustrated by Jonathan D. Voss
STEM: Science Technology Engineering Math
Curious Critters by David Fitzimmons
Curious Critters: Marine by David Fitzsimmons
Earmuffs for Everyone! How Chester Greenwood Became Known as the Inventor of Earmuffs by Meghan Mccarthy
Galapagos George by Jean Craighead George
Have You Heard the Nesting Bird? by Rita Gray; illustrated by Kenard Pak
Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature by Sarah C. Campbell; photographs by Richard P. Campbell
PB&J Horray! Your Sandwich’s Amazing Journey from Farm to Table by Janet Nolan; illustrated by Julia Patton
Plant a Pocket of Prairie by Phyllis Root; illustrated by Betsy Bowen
Raindrops Roll by April Pulley Sayre
Secrets of the Seasons: Orbiting the Sun in Our Backyard by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld; illustrated by Priscilla Lamont
Sharks Have Six Senses by John F. Waters; illustrated by Bob Barner
The Slipper’s Keeper by Ian Wallace
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos by Stephanie Roth Sisson
Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes by Nicola Davies; illustrated by Emily Sutton
Triangles by David A. Adler
Wandering Whale Sharks by Susumu Shingu
Weeds Find a Way by Cindy Jenson-Elliott; illustrated by Carolyn Fisher
Whale Trails, Before and Now by Lesa Cline-Ransome; illustrated by G. Brian Karas
What’s New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos by Kathleen Krull; illustrated by Marcellus Hall
Who Was Here? Discovering Wild Animal Tracks by Mia Posada
You Nest Here with Me by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple; illustrated by Melissa Sweet