Nonfiction Reading Power Anchor Books

Adrienne’s Top Picks (2015)

Zooming in to Nonfiction Features:

Looking Down – Steve Jenkins

My Map Book – Sara Fanelli

Imagine You’re A …. (series) – Lucy and Meg Clibbon

Top of the World - Steve Jenkins

Take Two Books – Wright Group

Animals Nobody Loves – Seymour Simon

Sport-O-Rama – Benoit Tardif

The World Around Us: (Connect, Question and Transform)

Peace - Wendy Anderson Halperin

Redwoods- Jason Chin

Island: A Story of the Galapagos- Jason Chin

The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest- Steve Jenkins

Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest – Steve Jenkins

A Rock is Lively - Diana Hutts Aston

Sea Otter Inlet- Celia Godkin

Fire! - Celia Godkin

Energy Island: How one community harnessed the wind and changed their world by Allan Drummond

Endangered Animals: (Question, Connect, Transform)

Can We Save the Tiger? – Martin Jenkins

Parrots Over Puerto Rico - Cindy Trumbore

Jasper’s Story: Saving Moon Bears - Jill Robinson

Ivan: The remarkable true story of the shopping mall gorilla – Katherine Applegate

Almost Gone: The World’s Rarest Animals – Steve Jenkins

Skydiver: Saving the Fastest Bird in the World – Celia Godkin

Concept Books (Connect, Question, Determine Importance and Transform)

If – A Mind Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers – David J. Smith

If the World Were a Village- David J. Smith

Water is Water – the story of the Water Cycle – Miranda Paul

Wild Ideas: Let Nature Inspire Your Thinking – Elin Kelsey

One Well: The Story of Water on Earth – Rochelle Strauss

Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth – Molly Bang

Gravity – Jason Chin

Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes – Nicola Davies

Infinity and Me - Kate Hosford

Just a Second – Steve Jenkins

Lifetime – Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives – Lola M. Schaefer

Locomotive –Brian Flocco

How Big is It? – Ben Hillman (also How Fast, How Strong and How Weird)

Secrets of the Seasons – Kathleen Weidner Zoeheld

Creatures Great and Small (Connect, Question and Determine Importance)

The Rat – Elise Gravel (from The Disgusting Creature series – also Worm, Slug)

The Blue Whale – Jenni Desmond

Lifetime: Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives – Lola M. Schaefer

Egg: Nature’s Perfect Package –Rob Page

It’s Our Nature – Rebeca Orozco

Animalium – Jenny Broom

Safari Sam’s Wild Animal Series – David West

Not a Buzz to be Found – Linda Glasser

Over and Under the Snow – Kate Messner

Ape - Martin Jenkins

Extreme Animals – Nicola Davies

How the Dinosaur Got to the Museum byJessie Hartland

Biggest, Strongest, Fastest – Steve Jenkins

The Beetle Book- Steve Jenkins

Creature Features: 25 Animals Explain Why They Look the Way they Do – Steve Jenkins

Eye to Eye – How Animals See the World – Steve Jenkins

The Discover More Series by Scholastic

Nicola Davies Flip the Flap and Find out books which include Who Lives Here? and Who’s Like Me?

Laura Hulbert‘s Who Has This Tail? and Who Has These Feet?

A huge array of Bobbie Kalman titles

The Are you a . . . ? series by Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries

The Amazing Animal Series - Kate Riggs

Cultural Diversity: Families and Children Around the World (Connect)

With a Friend By Your Side – Barbara Kerley

Home – Carson Ellis

The Way To School –Rosemary McCarney and Plan International

Same, Same but Different – Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

One World Together – Catherine and Laurence Anholt (P)

One World, One Day – Barbara Kerley

Together – Moms, Dads, Kids Around the World – Barbara Kerley

Little Treasures: Endearments from Around the World – Jacqueline K. Ogburn

Families Around the World - Margriett Ruurs

School Children around the World – Margriett Ruurs

A Ticket Around the World – Natalia Diaz

The Great Big Book of Families –Mary Hoffman

Community Building, Environment (Connect, Transform)

Look Where We Live! A First Book of Community Building - Scot Ritchie

How Did That Get In My Lunch Box? The Story of Food - Chris Butterworth

How Did That Get In My Closet – The Story of Clothes – Chris Butterworth

As the Oak Tree Grows – Brian Karas

The Great Big Green Book – Mary Hoffman

10 Things I Can Do to Help My World – Melanie Walsh

My Green Day – Melanie Walsh

Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth – Mary McKenna Siddals

Best Biographies(Question, Determine Importance and Transform)

Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova – Laurel Snyder

Shackleton’s Journey – William Grill

The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse – Patricia MacLauchlan

Enormous Smallness: The Story of E.E. Cummings – Matthew Burgess

The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art – Barb Rosenstock

The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever – H. Joseph Hopkins

Nelson Mandela – Kadir Nelson

The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps - Jeanette Winter

Me . . . Jane- Patrick McDonnell

Mrs. Harkness and the Panda– Alicia Potter

Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle– Claire A. Nivola

Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell–Tanya Stone

The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus – Jen Bryant

Manfish: The Story of Jacques Cousteau - Jennifer Berne

On a Beam of Light:The Story of Albert Einstein – Jennifer Berne

The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon- Jaqueline Davies

The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos - Deborah Heiligman

Best New Early Readers About Canada: (Connect, Determine Importance)

Canadian Symbols series by Capstone Press (written by Sabrina Crewe)

Canadian Coins

Totem Poles

Canadian Mounties

The Canadian Flag

Beavers

NFRP 2014 – Adrienne Gear