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
NFRP 2014 – Adrienne Gear
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 by Jessie 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
NFRP 2014 – Adrienne Gear
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