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Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book
Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book was a quarterly supplement to our monthly e-newsletter Notes from the Horn Book. Nonfiction Notes provided recommendations of recently published nonfiction books, by topic, across grade levels, ability levels, and all areas of interest. All reviews are from The Horn Book Guide. The Common Core State Standards Initiative...
Week in Review, May 20th - 24th
This week on hbook.com...Remembering Judith Kerr (1923-2019)Summer Reading 2019 featuring 5Q for Isabel Quintero and Zeke PeñaFrom May/June 2019 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: The CSK Book Awards at 50: Lift Every Voice: "My Own Origin Story" by Javaka SteptoeMay Nonfiction Notes: life skills, activists and activism, evolution, and sustainable eating...
Books mentioned in the May 2019 issue of Nonfiction Notes from the Horn Book
Life skillsAlexander, Kwame The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called LifePhotographs by Thai NeaveGr. 4–6, middle school 172 pp. Houghton 2017Trade ISBN 978-0-544-57097-9Ebook ISBN 978-1-328-69892-6Groban, Betsy, Editor Totally Middle School: Tales of Friends, Family, and Fitting InGr. 4–6, middle school 181 pp. Delacorte 2018Trade...
Sustainable eating
Archer, Joe and Craig, Caroline Plant, Cook, Eat!: A Children's CookbookGr. 4–6 112 pp. CharlesbridgeArcher and Craig provide an overview of different plant food sources (including roots, leaves, flowers, and stems) and then, with an emphasis on the process, explain how to grow and cook them yourself. Readers are encouraged...
Evolution
Bonner, Hannah When Fish Got Feet, When Bugs Were Big, & When Dinos Dawned: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life on EarthGr. 4–6 128 pp. National GeographicNew ed. Bonner's excellent trilogy (published between 2004 and 2012) of the evolution of life from 430 to 65 million years ago — the rise...
Activists and activism
Easton, Emily Enough!: 20 Protesters Who Changed AmericaGr. K–3 48 pp. CrownIllustrated by Ziyue Chen. Each spread of this book features a person, pair, or group that became known for their change-making actions, which are briefly described in a line of text (e.g., "Colin took a knee") and ably represented...
Life skills
Alexander, Kwame The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called LifeGr. 4–6, middle school 172 pp. HoughtonPhotographs by Thai Neave. Alexander turns motivational speaker in this collection organized like a basketball game, with four quarters and rules. Alexander's narrative of his early life in...