A List of Information Books to Check out Over the Summer!
Ages 5-8
In the Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps it Up by Monica Kulling, illustrated by David Parkins
The Little Yellow Bottle by Angele Delaunois
Look at that Building! A First Book of Structures by Scot Ritchie
Loon by Susan Vande Griek, illustrated by Karen Reczuch
A Walk on the Tundra by Rebecca Hainnu and Anna Ziegler, illustrated by Qin Leng
Watch Me Grow! A Down-to-Earth Look at Growing Food in the City by Deborah Hodge, illustrated with photographs by Brian Harris
Where Wild Horses Run by Georgia Graham
Ages 9 – 15
57 Poisonous Questions: A Book with Bite by Tanya Lloyd Kyi, illustrated by Ross Kinnaird
Africans Thought of It: Amazing Innovations by Bathseba Opini, illustrated by Richard B. Lee
Beyond Bullets: A Photo Journal of Afghanistan by Rafal Gerszak with Dawn Hunter
Biomimicry by Dora Lee, illustrated by Margot Thompson
Case Files: 40 Murders and Mysteries Solved by Science by Larry Verstraete
Faye the Freedom Fighter by Sharon Jennings
Five Thousand Years of Slavery by Marjorie Gann and Janet Willen
From Then to Now: A Short History of the World by Christopher Moore, illustrated by Andrej Krystoforski
Hold the Oxo! A Teenage Soldier Writes Home by Marion Fargey Brooker
Hyena in Petticoats: The Story of Suffragette Nellie McClung by Willow Dawson
Kamakwie: Finding Peace, Love, and Injustice in Sierra Leone by Kathleen Martin
Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan’s Rescue from War by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Maple Leaf in Space: Canada’s Astronauts by John Melady
No Shelter Here: Making the World a Kinder Place for Dogs by Rob Laidlaw
Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest by Caitlyn Vernon
Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World by Susan Hughes
Sable Island: The Wandering Sandbar by Wendy Kitts
Scribbling Women: True Tales from Astonishing Lives by Martha Jocelyn
Shannen and the Dream for a School by Janet Wilson
Space Tourism by Peter McMahon
Spy, Spy Again: True Tales of Failed Espionage by Tina Holdcroft
A Stranger at Home by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
Strutting It! The Grit Behind the Glamour by Jeanne Beker
This Child, Every Child: A Book About the World’s Children by David J. Smith
To Hope and Back: The Journey to St. Louis by Kathy Kacer
Totally Human: Why We Look and Act the Way We Do by Cynthia Pratt Nicolson
For more information on these books, which are on the preliminary list for the Children’s Literature Roundtables of Canada 2012 Information Book Award, please see:
http://vclr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Info-Book-Award-List-2012-With-Images.pdf
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