We are excited to be hosting this week's Nonfiction Monday!
This is a weekly gathering of book bloggers sharing their reviews of great new nonfiction books. Make sure you visit each of them, and take a look around while you are there - I often find a new favorite blog to add to my feed on Mondays!
Bloggers, just add the link to your post to the comments (we do things the od-fashioned way here), and I will add them as the day progresses - keep in mind I am in the southwest, so your 8AM may be my "come ON, kids, we have to GO!"
Our review for the day:
I hate to stereotype, and refer to 'boy books' and 'girl books', but, let's face it - as librarians, we are often hit with stressed-out parents trying to find something their reluctant ten-year-old son will actually, willingly, read.
This is a weekly gathering of book bloggers sharing their reviews of great new nonfiction books. Make sure you visit each of them, and take a look around while you are there - I often find a new favorite blog to add to my feed on Mondays!
Bloggers, just add the link to your post to the comments (we do things the od-fashioned way here), and I will add them as the day progresses - keep in mind I am in the southwest, so your 8AM may be my "come ON, kids, we have to GO!"
Our review for the day:
I hate to stereotype, and refer to 'boy books' and 'girl books', but, let's face it - as librarians, we are often hit with stressed-out parents trying to find something their reluctant ten-year-old son will actually, willingly, read.
These are some serious boy books.
978-146-770-5981
Okay, I am now afraid to pet... ANYTHING. A platypus has a poisonous stinger on it's foot? Really??? And, that sweet little slow loris?
Run away! Run away!
These are definitely not aimed at small children. Besides the graphic nature of some of the descriptions, statements such as "a giraffe's life pretty much sucks" plant these firmly in the upper-elementary, middle school age range.
That said, the deliberately shocking text does include a good deal of actual information, and even - hey, an acrostic poem describing how a weasel rips apart its prey! So, you know, you can feed your artistic side as well. Maybe.
978-146-770-6001
This volume starts off with predictable dangers, like volcanoes and sharks, but then it moves on to others I had never heard of. The Alnwick Poison Garden? I like plants, but...a hole in Turkmenistan that has been burning for as long as I've been alive? Definitely more interesting than another trip to see the relatives (sorry, relatives).
The series also includes the titles Deadly Bloody Battles, Deadly Hard-Hitting Sports, Deadly High-Risk Jobs, and Deadly Venomous Animals. Sensationalized? Yes, but not to the point of total inaccuracy. These will surely be a hit with the age range mentioned, as well as adults who can't help picking them up and get hooked!
Thank-you to Lerner for the review copies!
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Around the internet today we have:
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at NC Teacher Stuff
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Around the internet today we have:
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at NC Teacher Stuff
Sports Illustrated Kids Full Count at Prose and Kahn
The audiobook Growing Up in Coal Country at Shelf-employed
It's Our Garden at The Nonfiction Detectives
A four-for-one at a Teaching Life
World War II: A Visual History of the World's Darkest Days at The Children's War
Holy Spokes! a Biking Bible for Everyone at Anastasia Suen's Booktalking #kidlit
Make a Splash! at Jean Little Library
Dolphin Baby at Perogies & Gyoza (a blog name that always makes me hungry)
A Place for Turtles at Geo Librarian
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster at Abby the Librarian, WITH the description of an entire related science program!
Brave Girl on Kid Lit About Politics
Moonbird at Challenging the Bookworm
