Kids Nonfiction
Newly arrived at the library!
05/18/2012 - 11:28am
Using an interactive question-and-answer format and content grounded in a child's immediate world, "Big Book of Why?" delivers lively information, hands-on games, simple recipes, crafts, and more. It helps prepare preschoolers for school in an interactive way.
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Reveals the facts about everything from loincloths and T-shirts to bloomers and lingerie, showing how throughout history, one's underwear revealed a lot about who one was.
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Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Annie Sullivan and her determined efforts to teach her young deaf and blind pupil, Helen Keller.
J 362.4 Lam
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Arranged alphabetically, provides facts about the geography, traditions, and peoples of 192 countries, offering children's artwork and poetry alongside color photographs of children from each country engaged in various activities.
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Impressed by a poor Jewish shoemaker's belief that God will ensure everything turns out as it should, a shah in Kabul, Afghanistan, devises a series of hardships to test the man's faith.
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Explains the challenges that face our planet as trash continues to build up, and teaches the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling items in order to reduce the amount of waste produced.
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Presents the American Sign Language alphabet using illustrations of both each letter's hand gesture and words beginning with each letter.
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An An illustrated prose poem that follows the life cycle of two loon chicks, from breaking out of their eggshells to learning to swim, find food, avoid predators, and finally fly and migrate to the ocean.
J 598.442 Van
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Describes the largest and most spectacular amusement park rides in the world and compares their various features to the size, speed, and other characteristics of other things.
J 791.06 Gol
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Introduces bungee jumping by discussing its history and evolution, equipment, and logistics, as well as the sport's records and quirks.
J 797.5 Kel
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This volume briefly covers the history of the Olympic Games, and focuses on the 30th Olympiad held in London.
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Describes some of the tallest buildings in the world, including Burj Khalifa--currently the world's highest--and buildings in Asia and the United States, and compares their various features to similar characteristics of other things.
J 720.48 Gol
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Borrows themes from famous poems and flips them on their head to create humorous verses and riddles in a collection of math-based problem-solving parodies.
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A collection of original poems by the current children's poet laureate celebrates the joys and mischief of twinhood while sharing twin facts.
J 811.54 Lew
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An illustrated exploration of the life of Kate Middleton, discussing her family, childhood, relationship with Prince William, wedding, royal duties, and more.
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